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Spring 2020 Newsletter

Spring 2020 Newsletter

May 15, 2020

Dear Friends of the Global Teaching Project, The emergence of COVID-19 poses major challenges for the educational community, and the world at large.  For the Global Teaching Project (GTP), COVID-19 has underscored the importance of robust virtual learning platforms and the importance of investing in our country’s rural communities.  GTP remains committed to our mission of bringing high quality education to those who need it most, and we will remain connected through virtual platforms and other means as we work …

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Sam Day-Weiss (Yale Class of 2020)

Sam Day-Weiss, Yale Class of 2020, reflects on his experiences as a GTP Tutor

May 11, 2020

Tutoring for the Global Teaching Project (GTP) for the last three years has been an unparalleled experience. Starting with a class of just two students at Lake High School in Scott County, Mississippi, at the beginning of my Sophomore year of college, I finished my Senior year with eight students. The program has grown so much in the past few years, and I am grateful to have been able to grow with it.

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Megan Kenny, Global Teaching Project tutor, from the University of Virginia

Megan Kenny, a tutor from the University of Virginia, shares her experiences from our 2020 Winter Program

February 21, 2020
My name is Megan Kenny, and I am a fourth year (senior) at the University of Virginia. My major is Astronomy-Physics, but I also love to take poetry writing classes and classes in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies. I also do research on the Sun (specifically studying the hot gas out in the Sun’s atmosphere-called the corona- and in the expanding corona-called the solar wind). The Sun is very quiet right now, meaning there isn’t much energetic …
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Dane Peagler, a teacher at Starkville High School and a Supervisory Instructor for the Global Teaching Project, Named Finalist for National Award

January 29, 2020
We are grateful for the many educators that work tirelessly with us to help improve student achievement in the state of Mississippi. Among them is Dane Peagler, a teacher at Starkville High School, and a Supervisory Instructor for the Global Teaching Project. Dane has taught numerous STEM courses at Starkville High School for the past 6 years, and currently serves as an AP Physics 1 and AP Computer Science Supervisory Instructor for our Mississippi Pilot Program. A graduate of Mississippi …
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Update on our Advanced STEM Preparatory Summer Program at Mississippi State

June 28, 2019

We have passed the mid-point of our 2019 Advanced STEM Preparatory Summer Program at Mississippi State.  To date, the program has gone very well. Our 49 students, who are from 13 high schools, are engaged and attentive, and learning a great deal.  They also are benefiting from a range of ancillary activities, and every one of them has begun their college applications under the supervision of successful applicants to some of the nation’s leading universities.  Also, our students are in …

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