We are very pleased to announce that Canaan Harris has joined our team, and will be working with the Global Teaching Project and the Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access.  Canaan will have a key role in our effort to provide promising high school students from rural Mississippi access to advanced STEM courses they need to achieve their full potential. Canaan was born and raised in rural Mississippi, where his family has deep roots, dating to before statehood.  Canaan was valedictorian at Belmont High School in Tishomingo County, and completed the Lott Summer Leadership Program at the University of Mississippi. Canaan attended college …

In the 2021-2022 school year, the Global Teaching Project has dramatically expanded its already unique reach into rural, high-poverty communities, providing educational opportunities that otherwise would be unavailable. Since its inception in 2017, the Global Teaching Project’s Advanced STEM Access Program has proven uniquely successful in providing promising high school students from rural, high-poverty communities access to rigorous courses they need to achieve their full potential, but which their schools otherwise could not offer due to funding and staffing constraints. In 2021-2022, the Advanced STEM Access Program has doubled the number of schools served and added to its course subjects, …

A key element of the Global Teaching Project’s blended learning model—which employs multiple means to engage students and facilitate learning—is the extensive tutoring provided by college STEM majors from leading universities around the country, such as Yale, the University of Virginia, Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania. Those tutors work with students at the Global Teaching Project’s residential programs, held for students several times a year at Mississippi universities (and virtually during the pandemic). The college tutors also provide instruction by video conference, often multiple times per week, to students throughout the year as part of our schools’ regularly …

We are very pleased to announce that Mississippi educator Nicole Roberson has been named as the inaugural Executive Director of the Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access. The Consortium, now in its fifth year, was formed by several Mississippi public school districts to work with the Global Teaching Project to implement the Advanced STEM Access Program, which provides promising high school students from rural communities access to advanced STEM courses they need to achieve their full potential.  The Consortium and the Global Teaching Project currently offer Advanced Placement STEM courses at approximately 30 high schools. Ms. Roberson, a Mississippi …

On June 30, 2021, Mississippi State’s baseball team won the national championship. The Bulldogs earned the school’s first national title in any team sport with a 9-0 victory over two-time recent champion Vanderbilt in the decisive final game of the College World Series. MSU’s baseball team deserves congratulations.  Even more so, they deserve emulation—they demonstrated what it takes to succeed, and we should seek to learn from their example. The NCAA baseball championship tournament consists of three rounds, in which the nation’s best 64 teams compete.  The winners of 16 “Regionals” of four teams each play each other in 8 …

The Global Teaching Project provides promising high school students from rural, high-poverty communities access to advanced STEM courses they need to achieve their full potential, but which their schools otherwise could not provide. Our students have been selected for our program because they have demonstrated a high aptitude and strong work ethic.  Yet those students, though quite smart, often have gaps in their substantive foundations.  Also, COVID greatly disrupted school schedules and instruction in the past year, leading to severe learning losses that put students even further behind. To strengthen our students’ substantive foundations and prepare them for the rigor …

The Global Teaching Project was proud to host a Virtual Student Recognition Program on March 9, 2021 to recognize the hard work and dedication of students who have shown extraordinary commitment in the face of unprecedented challenges. 

Teaching is at the heart of the Global Teaching Project’s mission. Teacher shortages across the country prevent students from accessing advanced coursework, which, in turn, impedes their ability to pursue, and complete, a college education.  To address that growing crisis, the Global Teaching Project provides promising high school students in rural communities access to advanced STEM courses needed to achieve their full potential, but which their schools otherwise could not offer. Supervisory Instructors—experienced, in-state, AP-certified teachers—are critical to the Global Teaching Project’s Advanced STEM Access Program.  Supervisory Instructors provide synchronous and asynchronous instruction, lead university-based residential instructional programs, create and administer …