NCSM Podcast Features M3T
National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) featured M3T’s work in episode #120 titled “All of Us are Greater than Any of Us.” The podcast interviewed Math Teacher Leaders Brittney Baisden, Jami Packer, and M3T Project Lead Joanna Burt-Kinderman.
McDowell County Change Idea featured on Debate Math
McDowell County Math Teacher Leaders Stacy Estep and Steven Alley were featured on an episode of the Debate Math podcast to talk about the change idea they implemented in their classrooms to tackle the bug that students did not argue or defend their approach to math problems. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube to learn more about this classroom routine!
Teachers Set the Agenda for This Math PD Program. So Far, They Like the Results
“Everything that we have been testing have been things that we’ve identified in our own classes that students struggle with,” said Karen Keener, a math teacher-leader at Brooke High School in Brooke County. “It’s very tailored to our classes.”
M3T Noyce Fellowships Program funded by the National Science Foundation
In March 2020 (right before March 2020 became more infamous), West Virginia University was awarded a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program to fund the M3T Noyce Fellowships Program for the next six years (Grant No. 1950217). The West Virginia Department of Education has also provided additional funding in support of the program. For more on the award, read this press release from WVU from July 2020. And for more on the selection of our first cohort of M3T Noyce Fellows, read this announcement from November 2020.