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Civil Rights veteran Velma Wilson Speaks at MLK Program

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February 16, 2022

On January 14, 2022, as part of our annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Advanced STEM Winter Program, the Global Teaching Project hosted a virtual speaking event with Ms. Velma Benson Wilson, Quitman County’s inaugural Economic & Tourism Director.  Each year, our Winter Program seeks to affirm the nexus between Civil Rights and educational opportunity; in learning from leaders like Ms. Wilson, our hope is that students will be encouraged to build upon the work of past generations. Well over …

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MLK Program Provides STEM Instruction, History Lessons

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February 9, 2022

  Each year, the Global Teaching Project organizes an instructional program over the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend for Mississippi high school students taking AP Science courses through GTP’s Advanced STEM Access Program.  The annual program affirms the nexus between Civil Rights and educational opportunity by providing immersive Science instruction, as well as educating students on Civil Rights history. This year, approximately 200 participants gathered at university campuses and other venues across the state for in-person instruction, while others had the opportunity to join the instructional sessions …

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Akira DeLoach Admitted to MIT

Student Spotlight: Akira DeLoach Admitted to MIT

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January 30, 2022

Akira DeLoach, a senior at Enterprise High School in rural Mississippi and a student in the Global Teaching Project’s AP Physics 1 class there, has earned admission to the Class of 2026 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Akira plans to major in Mechanical Engineering. Akira’s achievement is extraordinary—MIT is widely regarded as the world’s top university for both Math and Science, and MIT admissions are highly selective. Last year, over 33,000 of the world’s best STEM students applied …

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Kari The Light

Matt Dolan joins Kari the Light Podcast

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January 25, 2022

Matt Dolan, CEO of the Global Teaching Project, was recently featured on Kari Alexander’s podcast, Kari the Light, which profiles ordinary people doing “extraordinary things.”

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GTP Welcomes Canaan Harris, Education Program Manager

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January 4, 2022

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 …

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Holmes County Students Overcome Challenges to Excel Academically

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December 15, 2021

Cameron Keys achieves exceptional score on AP Computer Science Exam; Cai Davis awarded National Science Foundation Scholarship. The Global Teaching Project was founded on a simple premise—every community has promising students capable of excelling academically, even in rigorous courses, if provided quality instruction and sufficient supports. GTP’s Advanced STEM Access Program, now in its fifth year, acts on that premise by providing promising high school students from rural, high-poverty Mississippi communities access to advanced STEM courses they need to achieve …

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Meet Our 2021-22 GTP Teaching Assistants

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November 23, 2021

The Global Teaching Project’s extraordinary Teaching Assistants are a critical, and unique, component of our blended learning model. The Teaching Assistants—Science majors from leading universities—provide substantive instruction for our students, and much more: the Teaching Assistants also are exemplars of achievement, and emissaries from the broader world beyond the rural communities we serve. The Global Teaching Project’s blended learning model employs multiple means to engage students and facilitate learning—including both in-person and synchronous remote instruction; physical textbooks and learning materials; …

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Global Teaching Project Further Expands Unique Reach Serving Promising Students in Rural, High-Poverty Areas

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October 21, 2021

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. …

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Professor Lisa Urry

Textbook Author Prof. Urry Leads New Biology Course

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October 13, 2021

Professor Lisa Urry, lead author of the nation’s most widely used Biology textbook, will serve as lead instructor of the Global Teaching Project’s inaugural Advanced Placement (AP)® Biology course.  That course is being offered in the 2021-2022 academic year to promising high school students in rural Mississippi through a pilot program involving selected high schools, with the expectation of being scaled further going forward. Professor Urry, who earned her Ph.D. at MIT, has taught at Mills College in Oakland, CA …

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Teaching Assistant:
William Harkless

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October 8, 2021

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 …

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University Study Confirms HS STEM Program’s Impact

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October 5, 2021

A study by the University of Mississippi Center for Research Evaluation (CERE) has found that high school students in the Advanced STEM Access Program—implemented by the Global Teaching Project in collaboration with a consortium of rural Mississippi public school districts— achieved significant, quantifiable benefits during its most recent Summer residential program. The CERE study, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, found that the Advanced STEM Access Program increased student knowledge of substantive content during the residential program, boosted some …

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Nicole Roberson to Lead HS STEM Consortium

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August 16, 2021

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 …

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