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<body BGCOLOR="#ffffff" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#445599" VLINK="#778899">  <table border="0" BGCOLOR="#ffffff" CELLPADDING=8 CELLSPACING=4 align=center width=100%> <tr> <td align=center width=100% colspan=3> <font face="arial" size=1 color="#cc0000"> <span style="letter-spacing: 1pt"> <b>PROJECT TO INCREASE MASTERY OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE</b></span></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td VALIGN=TOP height="76" colspan=3> <TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=2 BGCOLOR="#5F9EA0" CELLPADDING=0> <TR> <TD WIDTH=100% ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=TOP> <font face="ARIAL" size="8" color="#000000"> <b>PIMMS</b> <br> </font> <b> <font face="ARIAL" size="2" color="#000000"> W E S L E Y A N   U N I V E R S I T Y</font></b></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width=50% valign="top" ALIGN=CENTER>   <P> <TABLE WIDTH=87% CELLPADDING=6> <TR> <TD COLSPAN=2 BORDER=1 BGCOLOR="#CCDDCC" ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=TOP> <SPACER TYPE=VERTICAL SIZE=15> <FONT FACE="TIMESNEWROMAN" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000066"> <b>Spring 2004<BR> <HR NOSHADE COLOR="#ffffff" SIZE=1> </b><font size=1> <BR></font> </font> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <p align=left> <HR NOSHADE COLOR="#cc0000" SIZE=4> <font FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"> "PIMMS has been the most significant professional development opportunity<BR>of my career."</FONT><BR> <FONT FACE="TIMESNEWROMAN" SIZE="2" COLOR="#5F9EA0"> <B>Allyson Glass</B>,<BR> PIMMS Fellow and<br> Presidential Awardee for Excellence</font><BR> <P align=center> <hr noshade color="cc0000"> <FONT face="Arial" SIZE="2" color="#000000"> PIMMS received one of three Platinum Connecticut Innovation Prizes from the CT Quality Innovation Award Partnership, the state-level program for the Malcolm Baldrige National Award for Performance Excellence.</FONT><BR> <FONT FACE="TIMESNEWROMAN" SIZE="2" COLOR="#5F9EA0"> <B>CQIA State Conference</B>,<BR> October 2000</FONT> </td> <td valign=top colspan="2" width=50%> <hr noshade size=4 colspan="2" align=left color="#cc0000"> <font face="Arial"><b> Improving Instruction</font> <font face="Arial">through</font> <font face="timesnewroman"> </font><font face="Arial"> Professional Development </font></b> <p> <font face="arial" size="4" COLOR="#000000"> PIMMS MISSION</font> <hr noshade color="cc0000"> <font face="arial" size="3"> <b>To improve mathematics and science education for all students throughout Connecticut by offering high-quality professional development programs for teachers.</b></font><p> <TABLE width="100%" CELLPADDING="8"> <TR> <TD valign="top" align="left" bgcolor="#FFFCEF" cellpadding="10" width=100%> <font face="arial" size="2" color="#000000"> <b>Robert Rosenbaum</b>, University Mathematics Professor at Wesleyan University, established the <i>Project to Increase Mastery of Mathematics and Science</i> (PIMMS) at Wesleyan in 1979. In 1984, the first of a series of two-year, multi-week, Fellowship Institutes (PIMMS professional development programs) began.<br>    Since then, approximately 700 teachers, K-12, have become Fellows; many now serve as school, district and state leaders in mathematics and science education. Through outreach activities with their colleagues and educators statewide, they impact 12,000 - 115,000 teachers each year. Annually, 1500 teachers now attend one or more of PIMMS 50 high-quality professional development programs.</font><br> <FONT FACE="ARIAL" SIZE=1> <B><a href="About.htm">Learn more about PIMMS...</a></b></font> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </td> <tr> <td colspan=3>  </td> <tr> <td colspan=3 align=center valign=top> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <a href="About.htm">ABOUT PIMMS</a> | <a href="staff.html">STAFF & ADVISORY COUNCIL</a><br> <a href="AcadYr.html">ACADEMIC YEAR SCIENCE PROGRAMS</a> | <a href="summer.htm">SUMMER PROGRAMS</a><br> <a href="links.html">MATH & SCIENCE LINKS</a> | <a href="grantinfo.htm">GRANTS</a> | <a href="grantinfo.htm">SPONSORS & FRIENDS</a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center width=100% colspan=3> <hr noshade color="#000000" size=1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" align=center valign=top> <i><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"> This page has been accessed <img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=pimms-main&dd=C" align=absmiddle> times since November 3, 1996</font></i> <hr noshade size="1" color="#ffffff"> <img border="0" src="images/wesicon.gif" width="55" height="46"></b> <font face="timesnewroman" color="#707070"> <b>Contact Us</b></font> <hr size="1" width="85%"> <a href="mailto:lkaratkewicz@wesleyan.edu"> <font size="3" color="#CC0000" face="arial"> <b>P I M M S</b></a><br></font> <hr size="1" width="100%"> <font face="ARIAL" size="1" color="#000000"> Wesleyan University<br> 178 Cross Street<br> Middletown, CT<br>06459-0200<br> 860-685-6454<br> Fax: 860-685-6461</font><br> <p> </td> </tr>  </table> </body>