Developing Leaders, Transforming Practice (DLTP)

Project Description

The Developing Leaders, Transforming Practice (DLTP) is a partnership between Portland Public Schools (PPS), Portland State University (PSU), and RMC Research Corporation (RMC).  DLTP is a K-5 mathematics intervention focused on demonstrating the effectiveness of the DLTP professional development (PD) model in terms of improving teachers’ instructional practices (Goal 1), increasing student mathematics understanding and achievement (Goal 2), and evaluating the efficacy and use of Elementary Mathematics Specialists (EMSs) by testing 4 implementation models that take into account the various ways EMSs are integrated into schools (Goal 3). 

DLTP project on CADRE webpage  and NSF webpage.