Grants Highlight

The Arizona Board of Regents awarded the College of Education, with Patty J. Horn, Principal Investigator, and Jeff Shamatha, Co-Principal Investigator, an Improving Teacher Quality Grant entitled Mentoring Quality Math Instruction.

This project involves the NAU College of Education, NAU College of Engineering and Natural Sciences, and five K-12 school districts impacting 31 schools, 420 beginning teachers, 28 full-time mentors and 12,600 students. Integrating a research-based teacher induction program (Horn & Sterling, 2002) with a research-based mathematics instructional program (Shamatha, Wiburg & Jorgenson, 2003), the project builds the capacity of highly trained mentors to improve mathematics teaching and learning in the classrooms of beginning teachers thus increasing mathematics student achievement. During this three year program, emphasis will be on mentoring quality mathematics instruction.