Learn More about the DCMP Across Multiple Levels of the System
Leaders set a common national vision for math pathways.
What does it look like?
- The professional associations of mathematics have reached consensus on the need for modernized mathematics pathways.
- Diverse organizations are advocating for coordinated action around a set of Core Principles
- Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics (TPSE Math) is convening faculty leaders to develop an action plan for improving undergraduate math education.
What is the Dana Center's role?
- To provide thought leadership to mobilize stakeholders for scaled adoption of math pathways.
- To build coalitions among stakeholders with diverse resources and relationships.
- To engage and mobilize stakeholders to action.
- Learn more about the Dana Center's national work.
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Mathematics faculty and other leaders mobilize to set a vision for math pathways in their state.
What does it look like?
- A task force of faculty leaders across 2- and 4-year sectors and representatives of policy agencies collaborate to establish recommendations for statewide implementation.
- Leaders across stakeholder groups create conditions to enable institutions to implement.
- Learn how to Take Action at the state level.
What is the Dana Center's role?
- To provide tools and service to support the process in establishing a vision for pathways and addressing challenges such as transfer and applicability.
- To support a network of leaders across states in building and sustaining momentum and in moving state-level work to action at the local level.
- See where the Dana Center works.
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Institutions commit to implementing math pathways at scale through a faculty-led, administrator-supported, and policy-enabled process.
What does it look like?
- Institutional leaders charge a cross-functional leadership team with implementing math pathways. The team identifies three to six math pathways based on local needs and plans for how the pathways will be structured.
- Systemic change is achieved through collaboration and action across stakeholder groups to establish math pathways as normative practice for all students.
- Strategic communications and engagement build understanding of and support for the math pathways across the institution.
- Learn how to Take Action at the institutional level.
What is the Dana Center's role?
- To provide institutional planning tools, resources for communications, and exemplars for use as models.
- To help create cross-institutional learning opportunities and to disseminate information linking the local action with state and national efforts.
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Institutions commit to implementing math pathways at scale through a faculty-led, administrator-supported, and policy-enabled process.
What does it look like?
- Content of the courses within pathways is aligned to the needs of programs of study and of citizens and consumers in modern society.
- Faculty intentionally design pathways courses to draw upon evidence-based practice to support students as learners.
- Pathways are structured to support most students to be successful in a college-level math course in their first semester.
- Faculty receive training and support to teach new courses and improve instruction.
- Learn how to Take Action at the state level.
What is the Dana Center's role?
- To provide institutional planning tools, resources for communications, and exemplars for use as models.
- To help create cross-institutional learning opportunities and to disseminate information linking the local action with state and national efforts.
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