Two semi-structured interviewguides designed for parents and teachers were used to ensure that the interviews werefocused and covered the same questions for each participant. The participants for thiscase study were two math supervisors, six ninth-grade mathematics teachers, and threeparents of African American students in a large northern New Jersey school district. Itwas found that ninth-grade math teacher participants (100%) perceived that they fosteredparent-teacher collaboration to facilitate African American students’ engagement to learnmathematics. African American parent participants (100%) perceived that they involvedin their children education at home, but the conflict between their work schedule and thedistrict scheduled parent-teacher conferences prevented them from collaboratingfrequently with teachers.