Project MSLAHMS was designed to improve middle school teachers’ ability to strengthen their pedagogical approaches and instruction in science, health, and math and to teach content area literacy using inquiry and diagnostic approaches. Project MSLAHMS was funded by the California Postsecondary Education Commission. It was a collaborative professional development (PD) program between the USC STEM Education Research Group and Paramount Unified School District (PUSD). It was designed to improve middle school teachers’ ability to strengthen their pedagogical approaches and instruction in science, health, and math and to teach content area literacy using inquiry and diagnostic approaches. Fifty middle school science health and math teachers directly benefited from Project MSHLAMS. The Project utilized a combined teacher academy and lesson study approach to professional development with a focus on content area literacy instruction and STEM achievement.
Funding Source: California Postsecondary Education Commission
Investigators : Gisele Ragusa, Lowell Stott and Gary Rosen, University of Southern California