MTEP 2.0’s Strategic Vision for 2024-2025

by Gary Martin, EdD, MTEP 2.0 principal investigator

As hard as it may seem to believe, MTEP 2.0 was launched nearly four years ago, and our funding from NSF began nearly two years ago. Thus, the MTEP 2.0 leadership felt this was an opportune moment to take stock of how MTEP 2.0 has progressed in that time and where we would like to see it continue to progress. As a part of a three-month process, we tweaked the aim (changing the end date for engaging 65 MTEP programs, including 11 historically under-resourced and/or minority-serving institutions, to 2026).

Each of the Hubs (Support, Outreach, Research, and Administration) revisited their portion of the driver diagram. You can view the five-page driver diagram, but you might want to find your reading glasses first because it is pretty dense! This document provides an overview of the work MTEP 2.0; we don’t lack in ambition!

Additionally the Hubs set both baseline goals—the minimum that must be accomplished in the coming year—and aspirational stretch goals for 2024-2025. Highlights follow:

Cross-hub
Baseline goals

• Hold the 2025 MTEP Conference-within-a-Conference in conjunction with the 2025 AMTE Conference from Feb. 6-8, 2024
  
• Collect content for the MTEP Newsletter
  
• Organize monthly NIC-Casts

• Expand engagement of MTEP members in the design and implementation of project activities
  
• Work on a coordinated dissemination plan

• Develop and support the new subgroup structure, which focuses on Change Agents, Change Coaches, Cross-team Collaboration, and Supporting the NIC Design
  
• Set up meetings of Change Agents and Change Coaches
  
• Host convenings focusing on building cross-team collaboration
  
• Organize the Improvement Science Boot Camp and hold an introductory session at the 2025 MTEP Conference

• Build opportunities for asynchronous interaction of the Change Agents
  
• Build collaboration among the Change Coaches
  
• Support the development of a working group on a particular problem of practice
  
• Submit a proposal to present at the 2025 AMTE conference
  
• Create readily available resources for implementing the NIC design
  

• Meet with the external partners once in the spring and once in the fall to would help with the policy work (NIC Expansion)
  
• Meet with potential MSI partners in the fall and the spring
  
• Market MTEP to be more visible and accessible to potential members and change perceptions of what MTEP is and who can join
  
• Hold briefings for K-12 and higher education administrators
  
• Continue publishing the monthly newsletter
  
• Decide on and create a social media platform presence

• Add three more MSI partners to MTEP
  
• Serve as a liaison to national organizations, state, or regional partners
  
• Support the development of a working group on a particular problem of practice
  
• Create a Policy Working Group that develops a position statement
  
• Create resources that will be useful in working with K-12 and higher education administrators
  
• Increase the number of newsletter story submissions from NIC members to five by the end of the year
  
• Foster more meaningful collaborations with AMTE, exploring intersections of membership in a way that benefits the work of the organizations
  
• Given that all the members of MTEP are mathematics educators in some way, make the partnership more known

• Continue with the data collection and data analysis (note: no interviews in 2024-2025)
  
• Begin developing case analyses that takes into account all data gathered for teams
  
• Analyze data to document how we are expanding the network
  
• Gather data from hub members to understand hub functioning
  
• Make progress on disseminating initial findings via the newsletter and elsewhere
  
• Work with the other hubs to see what data would support their work

• Complete case analyses for every team
  
• Submit manuscripts based on the initial findings
  
• Propose a monograph to present the first wave of data
  
• Plan a workshop to help NICs tell their stories

• Continue to provide logistical support to MTEP 2.0 and the hubs

• Write a proposal on how to run an administration hub for a large NIC
  
• Support the hubs in creating written onboarding processes to better handle turnover in personnel and adding new people to the hubs