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Professional Development Focused on Children's Algebraic Reasoning in Elementary School by Jacobs, Victoria R., Franke, Megan Loef, Carpenter, Thomas P., Levi, Linda, Battey, Dan

“…A yearlong experimental study showed positive effects of a professional development project that involved 19 urban elementary schools, 180 teachers, and 3735…”
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Capturing Teachers' Generative Change: A Follow-up Study of Professional Development in Mathematics by Franke, Megan Loef, Carpenter, Thomas P., Levi, Linda, Fennema, Elizabeth

“…This study documents how teachers who participated in a professional development program on understanding the development of students' mathematical thinking…”
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Learning to Teach Mathematics: Focus on Student Thinking by Franke, Megan Loef, Kazemi, Elham

“…Describes a research and development project, Cognitively Guided Instruction, to illustrate how theory and research inform the teaching and learning of…”
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Research for High-Quality Urban Teaching: Defining it, Developing it, Assessing it by Oakes, Jeannie, Franke, Megan Loef, Quartz, Karen Hunter, Rogers, John

“…Discusses the need to increase urban teacher supply and address urban teacher turnover by learning what makes teaching in urban schools fulfilling and offering…”
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Keeping It Complex: Using Rehearsals to Support Novice Teacher Learning of Ambitious Teaching by Lampert, Magdalene, Franke, Megan Loef, Kazemi, Elham, Ghousseini, Hala, Turrou, Angela Chan, Beasley, Heather, Cunard, Adrian, Crowe, Kathleen

“…We analyze a particular pedagogy for learning to interact productively with students and subject matter, which we call “rehearsal.” Our goal is to specify a…”
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Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction by Carpenter, Thomas P, Fennema, Elizabeth, Franke, Megan Loef, Levi, Linda, Empson, Susan B

“…This book, with accompanying CD-ROMs, was written to help readers understand children's intuitive mathematical thinking and use that knowledge to help children…”
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Algebra in elementary school: Developing relational thinking by Carpenter, Thomas P, Levi, Linda, Franke, Megan Loef, Zeringue, Julie Koehler

“…We have characterized what we callrelational thinking to include looking at expressions and equations in their entirety rather than as procedures to be carried…”
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Transforming Public Schools: A Synthesis of Research Findings from UCLA'S Center X by Quartz, Karen Hunter, Priselac, Jody, Franke, Megan Loef

“…This article describes how one university-based center, UCLA's Center X, has worked to prepare and sustain urban educators over the past 16 years. Synthesizing…”
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Teacher Learning in Mathematics: Using Student Work to Promote Collective Inquiry by Kazemi, Elham, Franke, Megan Loef

“…The study describes teachers' collective work in which they developed deeper understanding of their own students' mathematical thinking. Teachers at one school…”
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Understanding teachers’ self-sustaining, generative change in the context of professional development by Franke, Megan Loef, Carpenter, Thomas, Fennema, Elizabeth, Ansell, Ellen, Behrend, Jeannie

“…Investigated changes over four years for three elementary teachers participating in Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI), which emphasized students'…”
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Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic and Algebra in Elementary School by Carpenter, Thomas P, Franke, Megan Loef, Levi, Linda

“…This book is designed to help teachers understand children's intuitive problem solving and computational processes and to figure out how to use that knowledge…”
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Young Children's Perceptions of Mathematics in Problem-Solving Environments by Franke, Megan Loef, Carey, Deborah A.

“…Thirty-six first graders from 2 different school systems participated in individual interviews to determine the children's stated perceptions regarding what it…”
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Applying Personal Construct Psychology to the Study of Teachers' Knowledge of Fractions by Lehrer, Richard, Franke, Megan Loef

“…Personal construct psychology provides a coherent theoretical and methodological framework for the examination of teachers' knowledge. We report case studies…”
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Young Children's Perceptions of Mathematics in Problem-Solving Environments by Franke, Megan Loef, Carey, Deborah A.

“…Thirty-six first graders from 2 different school systems participated in individual interviews to determine the children's stated perceptions regarding what it…”
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Applying Personal Construct Psychology to the Study of Teachers' Knowledge of Fractions by Lehrer, Richard, Franke, Megan Loef

“…Personal construct psychology provides a coherent theoretical and methodological framework for the examination of teachers' knowledge. We report case studies…”
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