24 New Teacher Quality Partnership Grants Totaling More Than $35 Million Awarded to Recruit, Train and Support More Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Teachers
24 New Teacher Quality Partnership Grants Totaling More Than $35 Million Awarded to Recruit, Train and Support More Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Teachers
Major Progress on President's Goal to Prepare 100,000 Excellent STEM Teachers
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced the award of $35 million for 24 new partnerships between universities and high-need school districts that will recruit, train and support more than 11,000 teachers over the next five yearsprimarily in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fieldsto improve student achievement. These awards are the culmination of this year's Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) grant competition that President Obama announced in May at the White House Science Fair.
For the first time, this year's TQP competition focuses on preparing STEM teachers, and increasing the participation of underrepresented groupswomen, minorities and people with disabilitiesin teaching STEM subjects. The 2014 TQP grantees will train teachers in a wide variety of approaches to STEM instruction, from early learning through high school levels. This advances on the goal that President Obama set in his 2011 State of the Union address to prepare 100,000 STEM teachers over the next decade with strong teaching skills and deep content knowledge. In addition, answering the President's call to action, nearly 200 organizations have formed a coalition called 100Kin10, all committed to the goal of increasing the supply of excellent STEM teachers.
"Recruiting and supporting great teachers has been a key priority for our Department and the Administration from the very beginning," Secretary Duncan said. "Every teacher deserves the opportunity to receive the training and support necessary to prepare for the rigors of preparing all students for success in the classroom and in life. We're proud at the Department of Education to announce these awards that represent another important step in strengthening teacher preparation and residency programs to ensure that new teacherswhether entering from college or from other careershave the skills to improve student achievement in today's diverse and challenging classrooms."
"Cultivating tomorrow's innovators, discoverers, and entrepreneurs will require a world-class workforce of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics teachers today," said John P. Holdren, President Obama's Science Advisor. "The awards announced by Secretary Duncan today mark a major step forward toward meeting the President's goal of preparing 100,000 excellent STEM teachers and will help ensure that these dedicated professionals have the tools, training, and resources they need to continue inspiring our kids to excel in science and math."
President Obama strongly believes that the United States must equip many more students to excel in STEM fields. In 2009, President Obama launched the Educate to Innovate campaign, a publicprivate partnership that has secured more than $700 million in commitments to bolster investments in STEM education and to help meet the President's goal for STEM teachers. President Obama's 2015 budget proposal for STEM education would invests $2.9 billion, an increase of 3.7 percent over the 2014 level, in federal STEM education programs.
Under TQP, grantees create model teacher preparation programs to grow the pool of quality new teachers including early learning teachers. These programs are developed through reforms of teacher preparation programs at the undergraduate or fifth year licensing level, or teaching residency programs for individuals with strong academic or professional qualifications, but without teaching experience. Grantees may implement school leadership programs to train superintendents, principals, early learning program directors, and other school leaders in high-need or rural school districts.
The Obama Administration is committed to ensuring that teachers and leaders have the support they need from preparation and through their careers, and that all students have access to great teachers and leaders. Today's grant announcement is another step in realizing the Administration's commitment to support educators. Efforts over the past five years have included the administration's proposed ConnectEDucators program in the President's FY15 budget request to support teachers' efforts to learn how to make the best use of technology and digital learning materials in their classrooms; the RESPECT proposal to elevate the education profession through improved preparation and early career support, teacher leadership and development opportunities, and improved work environments; and most recently, the Department of Education announced Teach to Lead, a new initiative to ensure that teachers have the opportunity to play a critical role in the decisions that impact their classrooms and their students without leaving the classroom.
Note to Editors: Below is a list of grantees, with project name, project director, contact information, and grant amount.
Teacher Quality Partnership Grants
Applicant Name | State | Five-Year Funding |
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Grantee: California State University, Chico Research Foundation Project Name: PRISMS Project: Promoting Rural Improvement in Secondary Mathematics and Science Project Director: Maggie Payne Email: mpayne@csuchico.edu Phone: (530) 898-6518 |
CA | $6,479,717 |
Grantee: California State University, Dominguez Hills Project Name: STEM Teachers in Advanced Residency, or STAR Project Director: Kamal Hamdan Email: khamdan@csudh.edu Phone: (310) 243-3981 |
CA | $12,458,834 |
Grantee: Illinois State University Project Name: Using Research Based Actions to Network Cities Engaged in New Teacher Education Reform (The Urban Center) Project Director: Robert Lee Email: rlee2@IllinoisState.edu Phone: (309)438-1780 |
IL | $10,149,826 |
Grantee: Cal State L.A. University Auxiliary Services, Inc. Project Name: Los Angeles Urban Teacher Residency Program Transformation Initiative Project Director: A. Dee Williams Email: awillia6@exchange.calstatela.edu Phone: (323) 343-6168 |
CA | $11,064,077 |
Grantee: Montclair State University Project Name: The Newark-Montclair State University Teaching Residency Program (NMUTR) Project Director: Jennifer Robinson Email: robinsonj@mail.montclair.edu Phone: (973)655-5387 |
NJ | $6,205,534.00 |
Grantee: Georgia State University Project Name: Collaboration and Resources for Encouraging and Supporting Transformations in Education (CREST-Ed) Project Director: Gwendolyn Benson Email: gbenson@gsu.edu Phone: (404)413-8105 |
GA | $7,547,299 |
Grantee: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Project Name: Transforming Teaching through Technology Project Director: Karen Wixson Email: kkwixson@uncg.edu Phone: (336)334-4418 |
NC | $7,738,827 |
Grantee: Arizona State University Board of Regents Project Name: Integrating STEM, Literacy, and Language to Prepare All Teachers to Teach English Language Learners: iTeach ELLs Project Director: Pamela Harris Email: Pamela.J.Harris@asu.edu Phone: (480)727-5188 |
AZ | $11,552,505 |
Grantee: National Louis University Project Name: Science Excellence through Residency (SER) Project Director: Shaunti Knauth Email: shaunti.knauth@nl.edu Phone: (224) 233-2328 |
IL | $8,334,153 |
Grantee: Virginia Commonwealth University Project Name: Richmond Teacher Residency (RTR) 2.0 Project Director: Therese Dozier Email: tadozier@vcu.edu Phone: (804)828-1305 |
VA | $7,499,638 |
Grantee: Fresno Unified School District Project Name: Fresno Teacher Residency Program Project Director: Mary Gonzalez Email: maryj.gonzalez@fresnounified.org Phone: (559) 457-3186 |
CA | $7,795,066 |
Grantee: Teachers College, Columbia University Project Name: TR@TC2--Teaching Residents at Teachers College, Columbia University Project Director: A.L. Goodwin Email: goodwin@tc.columbia.edu Phone: (212)678-3502 |
NY | $7,546,244 |
Grantee: California State University, Bakersfield Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration Project Name: Growing Rural Opportunities (GRŌ STEM) Residency Program: Reducing the achievement gap of students in high-need rural schools Project Director: Randy Schultz Email: rschultz@csub.edu Phone: (661) 654-2478 |
CA | $7,339,062 |
Grantee: University Corporation at Monterey Bay Project Name: Central Coast Partnership for Teaching Excellence Project Director: Mark O'Shea Email: moshea@csumb.edu Phone: (831) 582-3039 |
CA | $8,620,566 |
Grantee: Boston Plan for Excellence in the Public School Foundation Project Name: Boston Teacher Quality Network Project Director: Simon Hess Email: shess@bpe.org Phone: (617)275-0718 |
MA | $10,000,000 |
Grantee: Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles Project Name: UCLA IMPACT Project Director: Annamarie Francois Email: francois@gseis.ucla.edu Phone: (310) 825-6812 |
CA | $8,082,065 |
Grantee: Public Education & Business Coalition Project Name: Colorado Boettcher Teacher ResidencyRural Expansion Project Director: Belle Faust Email: bfaust@pebc.org Phone: (303) 861-8661 |
CO | $2,906,833 |
Grantee: Temple University Project Name: Temple Teacher Residency (TTR) Project Director: Wanda Brooks Email: wbrooks@temple.edu Phone: (215)204-8017 |
PA | $2,241,597 |
Grantee: Wesley College Project Name: Bridging the Professional Development Gap. A Synergistic Model for Training, Supporting, and Retaining Highly Qualified Teachers, Pre-service to In-service Project Director: Patricia Sherblom Email: patricia.sherblom@wesley.edu Phone: (302) 736-2575 |
DE | $1,589,499 |
Grantee: New Visions for Public Schools Project Name: New York City Urban Teacher Residency Project Director: Rachelle Verdier Email: rverdier@newvisions.org Phone: (212)645-5110 |
NY | $8,290,123 |
Grantee: American Museum of Natural History Project Name: A Museum- and School-Based Teacher Residency Partnership for Preparing and Supporting New Earth Science Teachers Project Director: Rosamond Kinzler Email: rkinzler@amnh.org Phone: (212) 496-3637 |
NY | $5,343,018 |
Grantee: The University of Tennessee at Martin Project Name: Teacher Preparation Reinvention for Optimizing Continuous improvement for Effectiveness and Student Success (T-PROCESS) Project Director: Betty Cox Email: bacox@utm.edu Phone: (731) 881-7201 |
TN | $3,324,314 |
Grantee: Rutgers University-Newark Project Name: Excite and Ignite: Building the Next Generation of Teachers (NextGen) Project Director: Joelle Tutela Email: jtutela@rutgers.edu Phone: (973)353-3521 |
NJ | $2,499,544 |
Grantee: University Colorado Denver Project Name: NxtGEN Teacher Preparation: Closing the Achievement Gap in Urban and Rural Colorado Project Director: Barbara Seidl Email: barbara.seidl@ucdenver.edu Phone: (303)315-6303 |
CO | $8,523,405 |