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The Role of Teacher Leadership for Promoting Professional Development Practices

Table 2. Identified roles as MBAMP teacher leader

N P
Administrative Tasks
Promoting MBAMP events 10 10%
Attending face-to face planning meetings 9 90%
Writing grants or funding 4 40%
Giving email feedback
For flyers, surveys or schedules 8 80%
For participants survey 5 50%
Daily schedule of an event 7 70%
Networking for MBAMP 7 70%
Mentoring Tasks
Working with UCSC Pre-service Teachers 3 30%
Supporting a new Teacher Leader 2 20%
Attending Teacher Leader session to support 3 30%
Opening your classroom for visitor observation 6 60%
Advising Tasks
Determining the direction of 1 day conference 7 70%
Determining the direction of an institute 6 60%
Assisting to start a new leadership team 4 40%
Finding other Teacher Leaders 3 30%
Serving as a liaison between MBAMP and school districts 5 50%
Presenting/Planning Tasks
Breakout sessions with another teacher leader 6 60%
Entire content for session without support 8 80%
Solo Producing an entire event without director 2 20%
Producing an entire event with another teacher 3 30%
3 day institute 1 10%

session with another teacher leader (60%). Solo producing an entire event without director support was
not commonly reported (20%). Teacher leaders were also less likely to report producing an entire event
with another teacher (30%).

Perceived Benefit of Mathematics Professional Development Organization

Participants were asked to report the benefits they received from working with MBAMP. Teacher
responses were organized into three categories: teaching skills, sense of belonging, and professional
development skills (see Table 3).
90% of participants reported their experience with MBAMP deepened their pedagogical understand-
ing. 80% of participants also reported their mathematical understanding deepened and they learned new
teaching practices. Tasks that were identified as developing a teachers’ sense of belonging were highly

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