Harvard Graduate School of Education praises GTP tutors for delivering “powerful lessons” amidst “many challenges”

The Global Teaching Project continues to earn national recognition for its work expanding educational opportunity.

Within days of a Yale University article detailing GTP’s “unique success” in providing disadvantaged high school students access to advanced STEM courses, the Harvard Graduate School of Education sent out a piece praising GTP tutors for delivering “powerful lessons” amidst “many challenges”.  That piece, included in a HGSE newsletter, is part of a collaboration between HGSE and GTP to recruit talented tutors for GTP’s Advanced STEM Access Program.

Read Harvard Graduate School of Education piece on GTP

Just as the Yale article focuses on the strong nexus between GTP and the Yale community, the Harvard piece highlights the work of the many GTP tutors from Harvard.

The HGSE piece notes that, for Harvard graduate Varshini Odayar, now a medical student at the University of Michigan, “GTP’s focus on access to education and opportunity resonated with her as her family is from India originally; issues of access, particularly in rural areas, were deeply meaningful.”  Varshini’s commitment to her students in rural Mississippi has been evident in many ways, such as how she stepped up tutoring for AP Biology students when their teacher tragically passed away, and has led her to continue to work with GTP even as a medical student.

Harvard graduate Ian Espy states, “Being a Teaching Assistant with the Global Teaching Project was one of the most meaningful things I’ve ever done, especially as a Mississippi native. When I look back at my time with the Global Teaching Project, I don’t think there’s any better way I could’ve given back to my community.”

GTP is grateful for the growing recognition of its work, and the contributions of many talented people from Harvard and universities around the country to advance GTP’s mission.