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The Role of Teacher Leadership for Promoting Professional Development Practices

attend the event will hopefully benefit from the experience, but is there an impact beyond the individual
teachers who participate? That is what the Logic Model addresses. Teacher leadership teams are plan-
ning MBAMP events throughout the year. The OUTCOME is the impact beyond the experience of the
participants. The Logic Model in Figure 4 details INPUTS and OUTPUTS of planning an event and
also shows desired outcomes:

1. All Teachers’ pedagogical and content knowledge increase.
2. MBAMP’s profile raises.
3. Students’ respond with increased mathematical intuition and understanding.
4. Districts Administrators are motivated to support MBAMP events, because these events are training
some of their district teachers to be leaders (see Figure 5).

These outcomes are larger than a single event. They are the impact seen over time on the districts
and the counties that the teacher leaders come from. The results from exit surveys of MBAMP events
overwhelmingly suggest teachers are reporting they have increased pedagogical and content knowledge.
Further the MBAMP Director is being contacted frequently in district and county outreach. When asked
why this model of teachers-training-teachers works the project director stated:

Figure 5. Logic model of MBAMP

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