Our Focus
The CMAST Faculty and Transformational Leaders' (TLs) action research focus for 2009-2010 is transforming how students make choices to move their learning forward and achieve mastery in math or science.  Mastering is defined to be where student learning become transformational and moves beyond transmissive and transactional (Miller and Seller, 1990).



Teacher Leader Network:
Following the two-year learning period, LMU-CMAST, as the university stakeholder in developing teacher leaders within partner schools and districts, provides six professional learning seminars yearly at LMU to ensure that Certificated MAST TLs have access to an energizing network of professionals where together everyone is inspired to remain at the forefront of innovation both in the classroom and within their educational community.  TLs and site administrators have access to Common Core State Standards (CCSS) resources that support their work through the virtual CMAST Professional Learning Community (PLC). This support helps to sustain the teacher leader’s demonstration classroom, coaching & teaching colleagues, and leadership within a school or district.  It is critical to build the capacity of partner institutions to implement the CCSS through the MAST System and respond to new educational initiatives after the completion of the intensive two-year partnership as recommended in Toward Sustainability: Strategies from four cases of teacher leadership in NSF Math and Science Partnerships, August 2010.

Click here to access the Professional Learning and Networking Seminar Focus areas for 2012-2013.

Research on CMAST Initiatives

• Assessing the Effectiveness of the MAST Program for In-Service Teachers. Melissa S. Taylor, 2009. (PDF)
  

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