1 Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership School Based Partnerships: Using Social Network Analysis to Measure Progress Towards Distributed Leadership Carl Hanssen Hanssen Consulting, LLC DeAnn Huinker University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MSP Learning Network Conference Washington, DC January 2008

2 Agenda  Context  Methods  Results  Conclusions

3 Evaluation Goals  Help the MMP better serve its constituents and improve its effectiveness  Serve the broader mathematics education community through documentation and dissemination of MMP activities

4 MMP Evaluation Logic Model Student Achievement Teacher Content & Pedagogical Knowledge Math Faculty Involvement Learning Team Effort School Buy-in Teacher Involvement New Courses District Buy-in MPA Ownership MATC Buy-In UWM Buy-In Classroom Practice MMP Activities Proximal Outcomes Distal Outcomes

5 Focus for this study Student Achievement Learning Team Efforts School Buy-in Teacher Involvement Classroom Practice Distributed Leadership

6 Method  20 Schools from 2006 & 2007  Purposefully selected for diversity in School Type Geography Student Achievement MMP Involvement

7 SNA Survey  Open survey approach Teachers & administrators Provide names of individuals with whom you communicated with about mathematics Demographics  Other data School staff lists Student achievement results in terms of % proficient

8 Analysis  Maps identify MTL MTS Teachers Principal Literacy Coach Others in school Others outside  Statistics Network density (%) In-Degree (z-score)

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18 MMP Distributed Leadership Continuum LowHigh Loose Network MTL Not Central Few Links to MTL MTS Outside Few Links to MTS Tight Network MTL Central Many Links to MTL MTS Inside Many Links to MTS 12345

19 Distributed Leadership & Student Achievement This is the same school 2 years in a row!

20 Overall Conclusions  There is support for the argument that schools that have more fully adopted MMP principles are demonstrating stronger outcomes — distributed leadership is one manifestation of MMP adoption.  Creating distributed leadership in a school takes time—and communication is critical  There is tremendous variability across MPS in the extent to which schools have adopted MMP principles and ideas

21 Conclusion  No single factor—e.g., distributed leadership, teacher MKT, learning team performance—is sufficient for success, but all may be necessary  Schools that are performing well do many of the things MMP promotes well, and realize synergy between many of these activities and principles