May CaMSP funds be used to attend conferences?
and classroom follow-up professional development activities. CaMSP funding should only be used for conferences in California where project teachers are focused on a specific strand or focus that is included in the project’s overall professional development plan. For example, if a project is focused on lesson study, funds could be used if all participants attend a lesson study conference or institute as part of the intensive hours. It is not appropriate to just pay for teachers to attend a mathematics conference and assume they’ll pick up an idea for teaching mathematics. • May CaMSP funds be used to attend out-of-state conferences? CaMSP funds may only be used to pay for travel for the Project Director and an additional representative to attend one federal MSP regional meeting in other states per year. The primary focus of CaMSP is to research the effectiveness of a professional development model. • May CaMSP funds be used to pay for the Principal Investigator to attend a science or ma
