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                                                       Southeastern Louisiana University
                                           Public Information Office
                                           SLU 880, Hammond, LA 70402
                                           504/549-2341/fax 504-549-2061
    Date: 6/23/98
      Contact:                           Carol Dotson   91
AREA TEACHERS PARTICIPATE IN PROJECT M-CUBED AT SLU
     HAMMOND, LA -- Thirty-three elementary and junior high school teachers participated
in Southeastern Louisiana University's Project M3 in June. The four-week workshop allows
teachers from grades 4-8 to investigate ways to make both the math content and activities more
meaningful in their classroom. The workshop also offers follow-up activities for the teachers
throughout the school year. 
     Participants in Project M3 receive stipends, college credit, materials, technology training
and staff support as they work on instituting math reform methods in their classroom. Susan
Jenkins of Southeastern's Mathematics department and Joe Walsh of the Teacher Education
Department are co-directors of the project and Pat Taucer is site coordinator. 
     This year's Project M3 participants are:  
     Tangipahoa parish:  Beverly Cathey and Shirnell Sims-Wilson, Roseland Elementary,
Brenda Dixon, Jessie Varnado and Ashley Walker, Kentwood Elementary. 
     Livingston Parish:  Pamela Burchfield, Amy Bush and Brenda Christian, Albany
Middle School. Donna Arbour, Toni Graham and Melissa Kennedy, Walker Junior High and Eva
Jean Dorion, Southside Junior High.
     St. Helena Parish:  Theodore Chapman, III, St. Helena Central Elementary, Pamela
Briggs and Connie Knox, St. Helena Middle.
     Washington Parish: Diane Caldwell, Varnado Elementary, Lisa Magee, Wesley Ray
Elementary, Tanya Powell, Northside Alternative School, Sheila Lawrence, Long Avenue
Elementary and Tonya Payne, Franklinton Elementary. 
     St. Tammany Parish:  Patty Brignac, Cynthia Tynes, C.J. Schoen Middle, Donna
Erdman, Slidell Junior High, Patricia Wesley-Smith and Kathryn Franklin  Pearl River Jr. High,
Gaynell Franklin, Ernie Landry, Rita Pittman and Patricia Welch, Madisonville Junior High,
Carol Meyer and Priscilla Ray, Tchefuncte Middle, and Mary Reneau, W.L. Abney Elementary.
     Ascension Parish: Darlene Taranto, St. Theresa of Avila School.
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