Fall 2025-Summer 2026

Highlights

RMP Colleges 

RMP fellows regularly met with their mentors who serve as supportive and experienced thought partners. Meetings centered on check-ins on their projects, offering feedback on curriculum development, and ongoing support on implementing effective teaching practices.

• In Fall 2025 Henry Ford College RMP fellows shared at a departmental meeting techniques to implement active learning in their courses.

• In August 2026, Jackson College RMP fellows hosted a day-long training workshop on active learning. 

• In their regional Secondary Math Network meetings, Westshore Community College RMP fellows promoted active learning principles to local high school mathematics teachers. 

• RMP colleges participated in three two-hour virtual faculty development workshops--Learnshops-- on the principles of active learning. These were led by Dr. April Ström and Dr. Scott Adamson of Chandler Gilbert Community College (CGCC). 

• In the spring, some RMP fellows visited CGCC for faculty observations and interviews. 

Self-Efficacy Survey Instrument

We conducted phase-two of the self-efficacy survey (RMPSI) with a narrow focus on how to develop an instructor self-efficacy scale for effective teaching of mathematics--henceforth called the RMPSI-Scale--unique to community college mathematics education.

Dissemination

• At the 2025 MichMATYC Conference workshop, RMP Leadership spearheaded a discussion on the state of mathematics education at two-year colleges in Michigan. Through the discussions participants explored potential implications for policy and practice and how to build a collaborative approach to support MichMATYC in its efforts toward meaningful change in community college mathematics education in the state.

• In November 2025, RMP leadership presented on the RMP project at the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges annual conference session AMATYC Grant Series: NSF Funding Opportunities 2YC Math Faculty.