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EMPower Professional Development Summer Institutes

Dear Colleagues,

TERC is pleased to announce the 2nd annual EMPower Professional Development Summer Institutes for instructors of adult mathematics. The local Institute will be held at TERC in Cambridge, MA on August 14 & 15 (a second training is being held in Louisville, KY as well), and this year's topics are Number and Operation Sense and Algebraic Thinking. The training will be presented by EMPower co-author Mary Jane Schmitt.

EMPower Institutes are based on the Extending Mathematical Power (EMPower) series, an innovative math curriculum geared towards adult learners. The EMPower curriculum fosters a pedagogy of learning for understanding and challenges students and teachers to extend their ideas of what it means to do math. It also promotes a learning community in which students are encouraged to work collaboratively, explore open-ended investigations, and share multiple ways for solving real-world problems. (To view a sample lesson, go to http://www.keypress.com/x5153.xml

Please visit the EMPower professional development web site for event and pricing details and to download the registration form. Please feel free to email sherry_soares@terc.edu with any questions.

We hope to see you there!