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Fall 2020 Recap: Despite Pandemic, Mississippi Advanced STEM Access Program Achieves Record Enrollment

November 3, 2020

Dear Friends of the Global Teaching Project: We are pleased to report that, thanks to the resolve of our dedicated students and committed educators, the Advanced STEM Access Program has achieved record enrollment in the 2020-21 school year. The Advanced STEM Access Program, now in its fourth year, provides promising students from rural Mississippi communities access to challenging courses they need to achieve their full potential, but which their schools otherwise had not offered, due to both limited resources and a shortage of qualified teachers. The Advanced STEM Access Program currently offers Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1, our inaugural course, …

Summer 2020 Newsletter

Summer 2020 Newsletter

August 31, 2020

Dear Friends of the Global Teaching Project, We are very pleased to report that our students, teachers, and tutors overcame unprecedented challenges to conduct a highly successful Advanced STEM Summer Program, with record levels of participation. Since our initiative began, our Summer Program has been a key component of our educational experience.  All of our students—who attend public high schools in rural Mississippi communities in the Delta, northeast, and central parts of the state—have been identified by their schools as having exceptional academic promise.  Nonetheless, we recognize that they can benefit from additional preparation for the rigor of an AP curriculum, which …

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 through this crisis.  Preparing the STEM workforce of tomorrow matters, now more than ever, and we will rise to the …