Summer TEACH created an alliance with local area schools, community colleges, and colleges of education to significantly improve teacher education. College students joined exceptional K-8 teachers to create an educational setting that engaged elementary students in a variety of activities designed to strengthen and expand their mathematical knowledge and problem solving skills. The community college tutors, students that are currently pursuing a degree in education, and the high school tutors, students that have expressed an interest in pursuing a degree and/or career in education, received training and supervision from the K-8 teachers. The tutors worked with small groups of elementary students on a variety of math related activities with a focus on problem solving techniques. The objectives for Summer TEACH were:

• To provide practical and diverse preservice field experiences by pairing future educators with mentor teachers utilizing interactive methods of math, and technology education
• To strengthen math & science in elementary schools by providing future teachers the opportunity to work with elementary students in small groups to focus on activities that model interactive teaching and active learning
• To disseminate and propagate this collaborative model through presentation and explanation of program logistics and preparation.

Outcomes and Evaluation of Efforts: The summer program provided several areas to evaluate efforts including:

The Auburn School District has collected data that compares how students score on the ITBS,(Iowa Test of Basic Skills), compared to the WASL, (Washington Assessment of Student Learning), and this data was significant enough that predictions could be made to fairly accurately predict what a students? WASL score would be based on the ITBS. Auburn SD will provide data for us this next year to compare our summer group participants with a similar group of 4th graders (we chose the summer group students based on 35-55th percentile scores on ITBS) to determine if there are significant differences in their WASL scores. Data comparison was also done with the summer group participants using the STAR assessment system (using pre and post testing) that showed an average of 4 months growth in terms of grade level gains for students that participated.