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DiME (Diversity in Mathematics Education) Partnership with Berkeley SchoolsThe Diversity in Mathematics Education (DiME) Center, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), brings together UC Berkeley, UCLA, the University of Wisconsin, and their partner school districts. It focuses on of research and professional development that will enable ALL students be successful in mathematics.
UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) have embarked on a major partnership dealing with practical issues of diversity and middle school mathematics. NSF funding supports DiME Fellows in learning about issues of diversity. DiME Fellows are placed in Berkeley middle school "adopted" classrooms to provide instructional support for teachers and to study diversity-related issues close-up. In addition, DiME provides release time for teachers at each of Berkeley's three middle schools. These teachers, known as DiME liaisons, work with their colleagues in the schools to identify instructional challenges and obstacles, as well as focusing on larger issues of social context; they work with each other and with students and faculty from UC Berkeley to find productive ways to address those challenges. A regularly scheduled DiME seminar brings together teacher liaisons, adopted classroom teachers, and other BUSD staff with faculty and students from UC to collaborate on ways to help all students succeed mathematically.
Berkeley faculty involved with DiME include Professor Alan Schoenfeld, DiME Associate Director, Professor Andrea diSessa, and Professor Geoffrey Saxe.
Click on this link to learn about applying to DiME
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