by Meghan Leadabrand, MTEP project co-manager; Alyson Lischka, Research Hub leader; W. Gary Martin, Support Hub and Cross-hub leader; Marilyn Strutchens, Outreach Hub leader; and Wendy M. Smith, Admin Hub leader
We are excited to present the fourth installment of "What's New with MTEP?" designed to keep you engaged with the latest happenings across the MTEP 2.0 leadership hubs. Periodically, we provide brief updates from our Outreach, Research, Support, and Admin hubs, along with exciting cross-hub initiatives. Read on to learn what’s new with MTEP.
Outreach
- The Network Expansion Subhub now includes four working subgroups that met regularly during the spring and summer to continue the work of network expansion. As a result of this work, Amanda Merritt from the Southern Regional Education Board wrote a guest article on supporting novice STEM teachers for the August issue of MTEP Transformers. The subhub hosted a MTEP/PhysTEC Connection hour on Tuesday, Sept. 9 to discuss how the two groups can collaborate around teacher education.
- The Recruitment Subhub met with potential partners in Spring 2025 and is working on following up with potential university and college members.
- The Public Awareness/Social Media Subhubs have been marketing MTEP to be more visible and accessible to potential members. They continue to publish the monthly MTEP newsletter and launched MTEP’s social media presence on Facebook, X (Twitter), BlueSky, and LinkedIn. Follow MTEP on your favorite platform to stay up-to-date on the latest happenings!
- The Administrator Subhub offered multiple briefings for administrators, including two time options for higher education administrators (March 14 and 25) and one for K-12 administrators (May 8).
- The Policy Subhub continues to contribute to the "Advocacy Corner" newsletter feature and work with legislators to tell stories of the impact of policies. The Network Expansion Subhub working subgroups are taking on further discussions around policy.
- Over the summer, the Research Hub sent NIC Partnership Profiles to team leaders, who have the opportunity to share with their teams and add to their profiles as appropriate. Along with the storylines for each NIC, the profiles collectively represent completed case analyses for all NICs to tell their stories of transformation.
- In May 2025, the hub gathered focus group data from MTEP 2.0 hub leaders and hub members to understand leadership hub functioning.
- During the 2024-2025 year, the Research Hub made tremendous progress on data analyses and using the analyses to create cases of NICs; propagated analyses through newsletter stories and conference papers; and began developing journal manuscripts on the story of MTEP, case studies, boundary objects, and the PDSA cycle database.
- The Research Hub is once again interviewing selected teams during the 2025-2026 academic year. Be on the lookout for a request for interviews!
- The Change Agent subhub held a meeting in April 2025 and will host a fall meeting on Oct. 23. The subhub continues to gather information on how to make the meetings more useful and build opportunities for asynchronous interaction.
- Designated members of the Change Coach Subhub provide support to the MTEP 2.0 teams. They held meetings in May and last Monday, Sept. 8, to plan how to best provide that support. Recent meetings featured more discussion time than in the past to help the coaches engage each other with advice and conversation and form a professional network to share what they are learning about the NICs with which they are working.
- The Cross-team Improvement Subhub hosted the 2025 MTEP Kick-off meeting on Sept. 12, using a new unconference format, based on feedback from past events. At this event, participants engaged in discussion topics of their choice, from developing teacher self-efficacy and agency to collaborations between two-year and four-year higher education institutions. They also supported the development of the new STRETCH (Supporting the Retention of Early-Career Teachers of Mathematics) working group to support novice teacher induction and coordinated with the Outreach Hub Network Expansion Subgroup to discuss transformation efforts.
- The Supporting NIC Design Subhub hosted the NIC Support Workshop from June 2-3 and continues to address feedback from evaluation surveys and other articulated needs in the planning of NIC-Casts and other Support Hub offerings.
- We are continuing to use Groups.io for MTEP-related communications. If you haven’t already, please sign up for the communications list!
- In May, hub leaders met to review prior year’s strategic plans for the cross-hub and each MTEP hub, then established strategic plans for 2025-2026.
- The 2026 MTEP Conference will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 4 as a preconference to the 2026 AMTE Conference in Portland, Oregon. MTEP will also host an extended networking breakfast on Saturday, Feb. 7 during the AMTE Conference. In addition, the preconference will be co-hosted by ESTEEM, and include sessions focusing on data science as well as secondary mathematics teacher preparation.