 Hi, I'm Ingrid Sapphire. I'm a math teacher educator working in the curriculum division of the WIT education department. I'd like to introduce two podcasts that we're going to show you about a project known as DIPIP, the Data-Informed Practice Improvement Project. We'll be able to listen to Yael Shalem and Karen Brody who will speak from their different perspectives of their involvement in the project in two different phases. Professor Yael Shalem is an assessment expert in the curriculum division and Professor Karen Brody is a mathematics expert also in the curriculum division. The project has a two-fold aim. Firstly for the participants, there's the developmental aspect that through their involvement in the project on a weekly basis they can learn about their their own teaching but from a research point of view we believe that their lessons and can come out about how to turn around the the poor mathematics situation that we see in our country today. This project was funded by the Harding Department of Education and took place in the Harding province of South Africa. Professor Yael Shalem will speak to us about phases one and two of the project which ran on the Witts University campus. Teachers used to come to the campus for meetings. There are about 55 teachers involved over the three-year period, about 20 departmental facilitators and 10 Witts postgraduate and academics acted as group leaders of the sessions. Professor Karen Brody will speak to us about phase three of the project which started in 2011 and differently from phases one and two takes place at the actual schools so teachers meet and have their discussions on their own turf.