Over the last 20 years, Pacific Crest has made decisive progress in transforming educational processes, with special emphasis on the philosophy and practice of developmental mathematics. Over these years, Pacific Crest has helped specific colleges through use of a three-year program. Now Pacific Crest is creating a three-year developmental mathematics professional learning community based on the philosophy and practices of Process Education, learning to learn mathematics, and active learning. We want to help up to 20 colleges work together to advance student performance in developmental mathematics.


The community will meet twice annually, at face-to-face professional development institutes, with Pacific Crest facilitating content that focuses on different aspects of developmental mathematics. One of these institutes will be in January and one in the summer. It is our hope that these will be national gatherings similar to those practiced by the POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) chemistry community. Additionally, during the year there will be online meetings once a month with additional one-on-one mentoring, as needed, to support each learning community member. We want each participating college to have 2 to 3 members in the community so they have local teaming.

1.	Members of this Professional Learning Community will have completion rates in the top 5% of the institution completion rates for similar sections of each of their courses.
2.	Members will become regionally known for developmental mathematics teaching expertise through scholarship efforts and publication of results. Each member will be expected to present 2 talks per year and collaborate on two articles per year.
3.	Members will improve their mentoring and faculty development skills so they can mentor other mathematics instructors, especially those teaching developmental mathematics.

1.	Members must embrace Process Education philosophy and the transformation of education that it implies.
2.	Members must have at least 2 or 3 faculty members from their college or from nearby colleges.
3.	Each member must participate in one face-to-face professional development meeting and 75% of the online meetings.
4.	Members need to use Process Education curricula in half of their courses.
5.	Each member is expected to collect baseline and ongoing success and completion data for their courses and that of their institution's collective performance.
6.	Members should choose a mentor from the facilitation team and work with them in an ongoing relationship.

We're announcing this program now, to give you an idea of what to expect over the next year.
We'll offer additional details soon. If you are interested in joining this learning community or
simply learning more, please contact us!