INCREASE SUPPLY
Academy for Urban School Leadership
Will prepare and support 100 new, high-quality STEM teachers by 2016 who will be trained to work and succeed in turn-around schools in Chicago.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will provide ongoing professional development, induction supports, and incentives to retain 85% of residents for at least four years in Chicago Public Schools.
American Museum of Natural History
Will prepare 130 certified science teachers for high-need schools by 2015; each teacher will commit to teach in those schools for at least four years.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will implement two-year new teacher induction programs, will develop and increase its professional development opportunities for 2,000 educators per year, and will develop models for effective partnerships between districts, teacher preparation programs, and cultural institutions to retain exemplary science teachers in middle school.
Boston College
Will prepare and place 380 additional STEM teachers over the next five years, who teach K-12 English language learner (ELL) students in urban districts.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will link faculty from the Lynch School of Education and College of Arts and Sciences to provide mentoring support for STEM teachers of English language learner (ELL) students during their first years of teaching so that 65% remain in classroom after five years.
Boston Teacher Residency
Will prepare 200 new, excellent STEM teachers through the Boston Teacher Residency program by 2020.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will support 50 STEM teachers each year to improve instruction through data-driven inquiry, instructional coaching, and teacher leadership training.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
75% of graduates placed in math and science teaching positions will teach in Boston Public Schools for at least three years; 60% will teach for at least five years.
California State University
Will prepare 1,500 new math and science teachers annually through 2015, half of whom will teach in high-need schools for at least three years and 10% of whom will earn dual certification, addressing the needs of hard-to-staff schools.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will develop clinical partnerships with school districts that foster retention of new, excellent STEM teachers through the new California Alliance for Teacher Preparation, and will initiate district induction partnerships that provide support for excellent novice STEM teachers and help retain math and science teachers affected by lay-offs.
Capital Teaching Residency
Will recruit and train 50 new STEM teachers in high-performing charter schools by 2015, and will provide alumni support after an intensive, yearlong residency to ensure classroom success.
Chattanooga-Hamilton County Public Education Foundation
Will recruit, prepare, and support at least 100 new STEM teachers by 2015 to serve in high-need schools for at least five years through the TEACH/Here Teacher Residency Program.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will engage and empower highly effective STEM educators to mentor and train a new generation of math and science teachers, celebrating the Excellence of these veteran teachers and rewarding their expertise through the TEACH/Here Clinical Instructor Program.
Denver Teacher Residency
Will increase the supply of STEM teachers for Denver Public Schools by ensuring that 20% of the residency program’s annual cohort yields 150 new STEM teachers over 10 years, and will develop high-quality course content in partnership with the University of Denver’s Natural Sciences and Mathematics faculty.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will deepen the skills of STEM graduates and STEM mentors by providing access to innovative professional development in STEM using content-focused classroom-effectiveness rubrics.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will create partnerships across Urban Teacher Residency United network programs to create recruitment and pedagogical tools that support highly effective and innovative STEM teaching practices for development of teacher recruitment and engagement efforts on a national level.
EnCorps Teachers Program
Will bring 500 new EnCorps STEM Educators (full-time teachers, tutors, guest teachers, and substitutes) into public schools by 2014, with a focus on women.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will advocate for an expedited STEM certification process for eligible career changers in California and, nationally, for the elimination of Social Security “double jeopardy” regulations that penalize career changers who take a full-time teaching job in the public sector.
Florida International University
Will partner with Miami-Dade County Public Schools to recruit, prepare, and retain 200 teachers to transform STEM teaching and learning in 26 low-performing schools, improving achievement among Miami's highest-need students through data-driven methods and learning communities.
High Tech High
Will develop 75 new and experienced teachers through the High Tech High Credential Program, the High Tech High Graduate School of Education Master in Education programs, and the Leading Schools Program, which provides sustained professional-development.
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University
Will double the number of graduates in STEM to 600 through three key strategies: aggressive recruitment; removing barriers for STEM students to major in a subject area and; systematically convincing committed and able teacher education students to pursue preparation and certification in STEM subjects.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will equip teacher candidates with best-in-class STEM content preparation through comprehensive partnership with expert STEM faculty throughout the University. In collaboration, education faculty and STEM faculty are developing core courses, focusing on national standards with deep content knowledge and inquiry methods skills to investigate world problems.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will develop a replicable university model in which the diverse resources of the university are leveraged to support the preparation of STEM teachers.
Memphis Teacher Residency
Will recruit and train an additional 50 STEM teacher residents over five years to work as excellent STEM teachers in Memphis urban schools.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will help retain excellence by supporting resident graduates with a broad community development staffing strategy and three years of personal coaching so that after three years 75% remain in the classroom as effective STEM teachers.
Merrimack College
Will prepare 270 teachers over five years by linking interdisciplinary undergraduate STEM Education majors with a one-year graduate STEM Fellowship program.
Michigan State University
Will recruit and prepare 500 middle and high school STEM teachers by 2015, and will also prepare 150 elementary teachers as STEM specialists to address the critical need for preK-6, high-quality STEM instruction.
Montclair State University
Will recruit, prepare and help retain 450 new, highly effective STEM middle and high school teachers to work primarily for high need districts by 2016.
National Center for STEM Elementary Education at St. Catherine University
Will certify 300 new highly effective STEM elementary teachers through its teacher preparation program and certify 200 additional highly effective STEM K-8 teachers through partnerships with 10 high-need school districts over the next five years.
National Math and Science Initiative
Will prepare at least 4,000 new math and science teachers and will train 12,000 existing middle and high school teachers by implementing three proven programs: UTeach, the Advanced Placement Training and Incentive Program, and Laying the Foundation.
New Visions for Public Schools
Will partner with high-need, effective schools and science institutions to prepare 200 non-traditional science teacher candidates by 2016 in a clinically-rich certification program to increase student achievement in biology, earth science, and chemistry.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will increase the capacity of 400 teachers, working in grade and department teams, to implement Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry curricular units and formative assessments and demonstrably increase student achievement in high-need schools by 2016.
Additional Commitment: Build the Movement
Will develop and implement parent and student data and visualization tools by 2014 to enable them to assess student progress mastering common core STEM skills and mobilize to demand better STEM learning opportunities in high-need urban areas.
North Carolina New Schools Project
Will recruit, train, and support licensure of 192 nontraditional STEM teachers over five years for school districts in North Carolina.
Philadelphia Teacher Residency at the Philadelphia Education Fund
Will recruit and prepare 100 new highly qualified and diverse math and science teachers over the next five years to work in high-need Philadelphia secondary schools and provide support to them for their first four years.
Relay School of Education
Will prepare 400 math and science teachers by 2015 and will create innovative math and science content and tools aligned to the Common Core State Standards.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will work on regulatory changes to permit non-STEM majors to enter the field and will collaborate with others to create competency assessments to ensure that STEM teachers have content expertise.
Stanford Teacher Education Program
Will prepare at least 230 new STEM teachers for academically and linguistically diverse K-12 classrooms in five years and will assess their performance through their impact on student learning, retention rates, and assumption of leadership positions in the field.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will prepare at least 20 new STEM teacher educators at the PhD level who will impact the preparation of new STEM teachers nation-wide.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will connect highly qualified teachers with schools and districts who need them the most through continued partnerships with local schools and districts and local and national non-profit organizations.
Teach For America
Will recruit 11,000 STEM corps members by 2015.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will connect high potential applicants who have a STEM background but do not meet Teach For America’s selection criteria with other opportunities to be involved in STEM education.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence Will enhance the effectiveness of TFA STEM teachers so that they perform on average at the level of 75th percentile teachers nationwide.
The Algebra Project, Inc.
Will recruit and prepare 1,000 math teachers in 10 years, from Algebra Project and Young People's Project networks, to increase the academic achievement of the most struggling students through proven materials and pedagogy.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will support experienced Algebra Project teachers and university collaborators to mentor and coach new math teachers in the classroom, facilitate teacher groups, discuss teaching practice using project-designed observational teacher assessments, and review their students' academic growth.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement Will collaborate with the Young People’s Project to develop 250 candidates for STEM teacher certification programs over 10 years. This pool willhave trained in an inquiry-based model of learning and teaching, and will be qualified to pursue teaching careers in STEM subjects.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Will recruit 1,200 new STEM teachers as Woodrow Wilson Fellows by 2015. These Fellows will commit to teach in a high-need urban or rural school for at least three years.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will provide Woodrow Wilson Fellows with high-quality mentoring by master teachers and STEM faculty, both during the clinical period and during the first three years of teaching.
Twin Cities Teacher Collaborative
Will partner with local, high-need public school districts to develop an evidence-based, post-baccalaureate residency program and to recruit, prepare, support, and license 60 highly qualified STEM teachers in five years.
University of California, Berkeley
Will recruit and prepare 150 STEM majors by 2016 to become STEM teachers in urban schools through the Cal Teach program that integrates content knowledge, pedagogy, and extensive K-12 classroom experiences.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will create a corps of 75 Master STEM Teachers by 2016 through incentives and a five-year professional and leadership development program offered by Math for America in Berkeley. These teacher-leaders will promote high-quality STEM instruction within their schools and districts.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will create and support a community of new, mentor, and master STEM teachers by 2016, including 400 teachers in San Francisco Bay Area public schools, with the goal of strengthening secondary STEM education and teacher retention by allowing teachers to share best practices and support each others' classroom practice.
University of California San Diego
Will recruit and prepare 150 math and science teachers with strong pedagogy skills, content and pedagogical content knowledge to work in high-need secondary schools over five years.
University of Chicago Urban Education Institute and Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education
Will create a rigorous training model to train and support 500 new K-12 STEM teachers for Chicago Public Schools over five years.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will appoint and staff a National Commission to recommend and review STEM programs for 100Kin10.
University of Colorado Boulder
Will establish in 2013, then study and disseminate by 2016, a replicable national model whereby engineering students can complete both an ABET-accredited, design-focused engineering degree and teacher licensure program in secondary mathematics or science.
University of Indianapolis
Will prepare 330 STEM teachers over five years through an urban clinical residency focused on high-need schools, an evening and weekend program for career-changers, an undergraduate secondary education program, and the Building Better Elementary Teachers of Science program.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will provide Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows with high-quality mentoring by master teachers, School of Education faculty, and College of Arts and Sciences faculty, both during the clinical residency and the first three years of teaching.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will partner with the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the State of Indiana to track the academic achievement of students taught by University of Indianapolis graduates, and will use the data for continuous program review and improvement.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will publicize this model of data-driven curriculum development and encourage others to maintain focus on student academic achievement.
University System of Maryland
Will triple the number of STEM teachers graduating from University System of Maryland institutions and increase by 40% the number of STEM graduates produced by USM institutions.
Urban Teacher Center
Will recruit, prepare, and retain 750 highly effective and accountable STEM teachers who make a four-year commitment to work in high-need urban districts by 2016.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will partner with four high-need urban districts to place 200 small cohorts of highly effective and accountable STEM teachers and foster professional learning communities among them to improve student mathematics and science performance year over year by 2016.
USC Rossier School of Education
Will prepare 2,800 new STEM teachers for five urban school districts using USC’s online platform and learning management system by 2015.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will structure supports and incentives to help keep talented STEM teachers in the classroom for at least five years and will provide sustained professional development for new STEM teachers throughout their first five years.
RETAIN EXCELLENCE
American Association of Physics Teachers
Will increase the current 50-60% five-year retention rate of new physics teachers to 80% by providing professional development and online eMentoring to 2,000 additional teachers over 10 years, enhanced by the online resources of AAPT’s digital library.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will improve retention of experienced in-service physics teachers by providing comprehensive professional development to 5,000 additional teachers in need of content, pedagogical, and leadership training over 10 years.
American Modeling Teachers Association
Will provide research-based professional development workshops and instructional materials to 3,000 science teachers over five years, connecting them to a thriving community of experienced STEM educators and researchers.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will identify and train 125 new teacher leaders over five years who will become self-sustaining Modeling Workshop providers in schools or universities.
Aspire Teacher Residency
Will recruit, train and retain 50 high-quality, accountable STEM teachers (10% will be Aspire Alumni) over the next five years, who will serve our expanding secondary school network impacting over 12,000 students across California.
Baltimore City Public Schools
Will implement a career ladder and incentive system for teachers to develop and demonstrate deeper practice in STEM.
Citizen Schools
Will bring 10,000 additional STEM professionals into classrooms to teach part-time over the next 10 years to increase STEM capacity and help expose students to a range of STEM careers.
DC Public Schools
Will engage students, staff, and community to expand and improve STEM education through increasing student exposure and access to STEM content and programming in and outside of the classroom.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will work to make STEM a pervasive part of school culture, while recruiting, retaining, and developing excellent STEM teachers to decrease high-need STEM shortage areas and improve teacher quality and effectiveness over the next 5-10 years.
DSST Public Schools
Will document and share best practices around STEM teacher support and professional development through regular onsite observation days, video content on the DSST website, and public speaking opportunities.
Educate Texas
Will recruit, prepare and support 150 effective STEM Teacher Fellows in Texas by 2015, who will serve as teacher leaders its network of more than 100 high schools serving high-need populations in the state.
Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry
Will provide professional development for all district K-5 teachers in Sonoma Valley to integrate science and ELD in a new approach to closing the district's achievement gap for high-need and ELL students.
Google
Will partner to build out a blueprint for a high-profile recognition program for the top 5% of STEM teachers nationwide.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will pledge to support the STEM teaching work of 100Kin10 partners.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will share talent management practices to help find, grow, and retain outstanding STEM teachers by partnering with districts and organizations for comprehensive reform and hosting talent academies with administrators and decision-makers.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will work with pre-service faculty at the Google Faculty Institute, starting with pilot program in California, on how to integrate innovative educational technology across curriculum and scale the practice by funding research on this topic.
IDEA Public Schools
Will design new strategies for training novice STEM teachers and will develop a new career-progression model that will strengthen and retain the best STEM teachers.
Indiana Department of Education
Will provide intensive training and support to STEM teachers based on statewide results of new teacher evaluations required by state statute aimed at narrowing the closing the instruction gap.
Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education (IISME - pronounced IZ-MEE)
Will revitalize and enhance the content knowledge and practices of more than 500 California STEM teachers through a program that provides STEM teachers with paid, eight-week summer fellowships in companies, universities, and research laboratories.
Intel Corporation
Will train over 100,000 math and science teachers by 2014, including an intensive 80-hour professional development math course for elementary school teachers and new web-based instruction and collaboration tools.
Kenan Fellows Program for Curriculum and Leadership Development
KFP will partner at least 50 practicing NC teachers annually with STEM leaders in industry and academia for a research experience and intensive professional advancement, driven by NC's specific economic development needs to address teacher retention and advance K-12 STEM education.
Lawrence Hall of Science
Will increase capacity of K-12 teachers to more effectively give English Language Learners access to high quality science learning by providing professional development based on science-specific ELL research, while embedded in classrooom reality.
Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh
Will create standards-based, content-rich teacher supports and supplemental classroom modules and develop local teacher leaders who will train 4,000 high school Biology teachers in these materials over five years.
Los Angeles Unified School District
Will launch a district-wide initiative that identifies key metrics around STEM teacher hiring, retention, training, development, and compensation to deploy a targeted talent recruitment and retention plan that addresses STEM shortage areas over the next two hiring cycles.
Loyola Marymount University School of Education
Will train at least 15 STEM teacher leaders per year through the LMU Center for Math and Science Teaching (CMAST) by partnering with 10 different schools throughout Los Angeles. Through a capacity-building model, each CMAST teacher leader will ultimately reach 13,500 students.
Mass Insight Education & Research Institute
Will train and support an additional 500 STEM middle- and high-school teachers from across the Commonwealth over the next five years through the Mass Math + Science Initiative.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will engage legislators, educators, corporate leaders, public and private funders, and community members in local community campaigns to support Excellence in STEM education.
Museum of Science and Industry
Will prepare 600 middle-school science teachers in high-need Chicago-area schools by 2016, moving them toward a middle-school science endorsement from the Illinois State Board of Education and/or a Masters of Science Education.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will develop teacher and administrator leadership tools and supports and will award and recognize schools demonstrating success to help move Chicago's 482 public K-8 schools toward a culture of Excellence in science education.
National Center for Technological Literacy at the Museum of Science, Boston
Will develop integrated K-12 science and engineering instructional materials, offer pre-service, in-service and online teacher and teacher leader professional development programs to 3,000 teachers, and work with 75 districts to integrate engineering education in K-12 schools to inspire the next generation of engineers and innovators over five years.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will partner with eight community colleges and universities in Massachusetts to develop core introductory science and engineering education courses that strengthen pre-service elementary educators’ understanding of integrated STEM so that they are better prepared for the Next Generation Science Standards, and work to transfer this model to 30 teacher colleges across the nation by 2016.
Additional Commitment: Build the Movement
Will partner with 150 school districts in Massachusetts and 70 districts in five other states by 2016 to implement the Gateway Project, which provides K-12 administrators with research-based resources, best practices, and supports so that they implement rigorous and engaging STEM programs, standards-based technology, curricula and assessments.
National Commission on Teaching and America's Future
Will provide intensive learning opportunities to 3,700 additional STEM teachers in partnership with 1,000 STEM experts in 425 innovative, cross-curricular, collaborative "Design Studio" teams over five years.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will leverage its deployment capacity to place 100,000 STEM professionals and retirees as adjunct STEM educators in STEM Studio teams by 2016.
Additional Commitment: Increase Supply Will, in partnership with universities and residencies, provide 2,200 prospective teachers with clinical experience in student-centered, competency-based, inquiry learning projects by 2016.
National Science Teachers Association
Will slow the loss of early-career educators and retain high-quality educators by expanding its blended professional development initiative from 200 science teachers per year to 1,000 per year, over the next two years, and by doubling the length of teachers' participation in the program.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will lead successful implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) by helping its network of 420,000 teachers translate the standards into teaching through resources including professional development, an electronic website and portal, and an NGSS Ambassador program.
Additional Commitments: Build The Movement
Will partner with universities to increase the number of student chapters from 140 to 600 in the next 10 years and provide 10,000 pre-service science teachers with educational resources and career services, including access to online mentors and an online community of science educators.
New Teacher Center
Will provide online and offline support and mentorship to 15,000 new STEM teachers over the next two years with the goal of accelerating teacher development and student learning and interest in STEM fields.
New York City Department of Education
Will develop, use, and share a research-based model to recruit, screen, and hire 3,000 STEM teachers by 2015. The model will identify educators who demonstrate the competencies, skills, and knowledge that best predict high academic outcomes for our highest-need students.
New York Hall of Science
Will build a center for design-based STEM learning that will serve over 10,000 teachers annually and will develop a model program that illustrates how science centers can support teachers in integrating design-based approaches to teaching STEM at the school level.
NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Will mentor and retain 3,000 effective STEM teachers over five years by launching a STEM Education Cloud with Cisco Systems technology to link NYC schools, STEM scientists and researchers, and NYU’s global network.
Additional Commitment: Increase Supply
Will prepare 300 new STEM teachers over 10 years in a new residency program and use Sakai portfolios to document their effectiveness.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will share research on effective teaching and learning to build the STEM education movement through podcasts, blogs, online modules, and events like the Sci-Ed Innovators Expo.
Sesame Workshop
Will develop, test, and implement a digital STEM professional development program for early childhood educators to build young children's foundational mathematic skills and foster their engagement in learning, with a focus on underserved communities.
Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM
Will launch the "Lead STEM Practitioner" (LSP) prototype, a model that seeks to recognize the nation's finest STEM teachers as top STEM educators, coaches, and content-experts inside of their schools, their districts, and regions. TIES will identify 5,000 LSPs in the first three years with the expectation of ramping up in the following seven years to take this initiative from prototype to scale.
The Achievement Network
Will build the capacity of 5,000 additional science and mathematics teachers over the next five years to make better data-driven instructional decisions that lead to increased student mastery of rigorous content standards.
Uncommon Schools
Will develop and disseminate content-rich professional development and implementation tools to prepare and support over 500 internal and external STEM teachers in driving high achievement in urban classrooms.
University of Arizona STEM Learning Center
Will expand its Mathematics and Science Teacher Education/Retention-Industry Partnerships (MASTER-IP) network throughout Arizona to recruit 30 or more effective early career secondary STEM teachers per year over the next five years, who will receive master's degrees from the University of Arizona College of Education with substantial course work in math and science, real-world internships, and preparation on the Common Core so that they will remain in the classroom.
Additional Commitment: Increase Supply
Will increase the number of excellent secondary mathematics and science teachers it prepares in its secondary teacher preparation programs from 50 to 70 per year by 2013, then increasing to 75 per year for the next three years.
Additional Commitment Statement: Build the Movement
Will create the University of Arizona STEM Learning Center, a regional STEM learning environment that will aim to increasing quality of STEM education from pre-K through university levels. We will serve STEM teachers first in Tucson and then expand, serving all STEM teachers in southern Arizona by 2016.
University of Washington College of Education
Will develop video-based learning tools designed to foster the early career success of STEM teachers and will measure and assess their efficacy.
Additional Commitment: Increase Supply
Will prepare 300 new STEM teachers by 2015 and will aim to prepare 1,200 new STEM teachers by 2020 through new partnerships.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will “bring to market” tools that support ambitious STEM teaching practices through engagement and collaboration with teacher education organizations across the country.
BUILD THE MOVEMENT
Ashoka Changemakers
Will launch an open-source competition that taps the talent in non-profits and the private sector to fill the gap in STEM teaching. (Commitment fulfilled.)
California STEM Learning Network
Will work with K-12, postsecondary, and business partners to launch a statewide STEM Teacher Pathways initiative that increases awareness and opportunities for students from community colleges, informal education, and other settings to pursue STEM teaching careers and to use open education resources.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Will coordinate philanthropic efforts to raise at least $20 million in private support toward the goal of 100,000 new STEM teachers in 10 years.
CA Technologies
Will fund STEM education initiatives that provide learning tools and support innovative programs for teachers in high-need schools throughout the country.
Center for High Impact Philanthropy
Will raise awareness of philanthropic opportunities for individual donors to contribute to the 100Kin10 movement and disseminate information about partners highlighting the most promising and effective practices for preparing and retaining STEM teachers over the next three years.
Change the Equation
Will mobilize its corporate members to advocate for changes in policies, approaches, and practices to increase the supply of and retain excellent STEM teachers in twenty-five states over the next three years.
Clinton Global Initiative
Will support Carnegie’s commitment by using CGI’s network and Commitment to Action model to encourage new and existing partners to take concrete steps toward action. As part of this effort, CGI will convene a STEM Education working group at the CGI America meeting in June 2011.
DonorsChoose.org
Will inspire 50,000 everyday citizens to invest in STEM teacher innovation at public middle and high schools by Spring 2014, delivering $15M in critical STEM classroom resources to 600,000 students nationwide.
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Foundation
Will fund programs to recruit, prepare, retain, develop and motivate excellent STEM teachers in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico.
GOOD
Will feature stories every two weeks on our online media site for one year highlighting the work and efforts of partners in the 100Kin10 movement.
GOOD/Corps
Will help steward the 100Kin10 movement through strategic guidance, and will develop engagement strategies, tools, and campaigns to drive stakeholder participation.
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Will lead a systems design process to reimagine Maine’s science learning environment, rally the state’s thought leaders to ensure that all Maine students achieve science literacy, and assist other states to adapt this model to address STEM needs.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will work directly with at least 700 middle school science teachers each year to provide them with rich professional development and curricular resources so they are confident, competent, and enthusiastic about teaching science.
Additional Commitment: Build the Movement
Will provide leadership to engage the 16 statewide organizations in the Maine STEM Collaborative in recruiting, preparing, and retaining more excellent STEM teachers.
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
Will invest in efforts to recruit, develop, retain, and accelerate the impact of excellent STEM teachers in schools across the country.
KIPP Houston
Will lead STEM growth efforts in Texas and will equip other schools, districts, and charters with the tools for how to do so.
Maryland Business Roundtable for Education
Will partner with all 24 Maryland school districts by 2015 to develop and launch STEMnet, an online platform for K-12 STEM teachers with relevant, researched-based, aligned resources, including opportunities to connect with STEM professionals to strengthen their skills and knowledge of Maryland’s Core Learning Goals for science and Common Core Standards in mathematics.
MATCH Teacher Residency
Will produce empirical research and publish how-to guides on issues faced by novice teachers, to serve all 100,000+ STEM teachers.
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
Will fund the preparation and support of high quality STEM talent for high-need, urban schools.
National Academy of Sciences
Will review research from 100Kin10 partners, help develop new research agendas for the movement, and use its convening capacity to identify and share strategies for recruiting and retaining excellent STEM teachers over the next five years.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Will leverage NASA’s facilities, missions, data, images, and staff to support training and development of educators by providing access to research opportunities, science and engineering activities, and innovations and technologies applicable to the classroom.
National Association for Research in Science Teaching
Will publish manuscripts submitted by 100Kin10 partners on innovative, effective, and sustainable practices in science teacher preparation, provided the manuscripts are accepted for publication under JRST's peer review guidelines.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will leverage its membership of science education researchers to connect with 100Kin10 partners and forge research partnerships, improving the quality of research on science teacher preparation and widening the scope of these efforts.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Will provide rich, high-quality multimedia resources to 90,000 mathematics teachers through its Digital Library of Practice and promote high-quality mathematics education through its conferences, professional development, and publications over the next five years.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Will make available $2M in grant funding over five years, as part of NOAA’s Environmental Literacy Grants program, to support 100Kin10's goal of retaining Excellence. Grants will align with 100Kin10 effort and focus on excellence.
National Science Foundation
Will provide guidance to the 100Kin10 community about funding opportunities and teacher preparation.
NewSchools Venture Fund
Will seek out entrepreneurial STEM teacher preparation programs for investment and will publicize STEM resources developed by its community members to advance the field’s ability to consistently prepare quality STEM teachers.
Office of Colorado State Senator Mike Johnston
Will draft and support public policies that substantially increase the quality of STEM teaching and learning in the state in order to double the number of Colorado graduates with STEM teaching credentials.
Opportunity Equation
Will accelerate progress toward 100Kin10 through the promotion and dissemination of innovations in quality STEM teacher preparation, retention, and support; creation and support of tools, products, and venues to connect partners; and mobilization of the movement.
PhysTEC (led by APS, in partnership with AAPT)
Will implement the PhysTEC model of Excellence in physics teacher education at an additional 50 institutions over the next 10 years – more than doubling their number of highly qualified physics teachers whose preparation we will support.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will increase, over the next 10 years, the number of PhysTEC Member Institutions committed to preparing highly qualified physics teachers to half of all universities with physics departments.
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Will partner with NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development to create a new 5-year teacher training program leveraging NYU's Polytechnic Institute faculty's STEM, research and applied science expertise to significantly enhance content knowledge among program graduates.
Public Impact
Will provide models, tools, and guidance to 100Kin10 partners so that they may extend the reach of the excellent STEM teachers they recruit to serve more students, and to retain them through better pay and career advancement opportunities.
Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Will develop model practices for math teacher preparation programs redesigned around the Common Core State Standards in partnership with K-12 leaders, while stimulating its dynamic network of 125 member universities and 12 systems to prepare 40,000+ STEM teachers over five years.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will develop assessments of the quality of promising STEM teacher preparation programs and will develop leading indicators of effective STEM teaching and learning, both to be piloted and disseminated across its network of 125 member universities.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will leverage ongoing efforts to stimulate data-driven institutional change at major public research universities to enhance STEM teaching and teacher preparation by engaging institutional leadership and science and education faculties.
S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
Will fund the preparation, training, and support of effective STEM teachers in California.
State of Arkansas
Will launch STEM Works to transform state-wide education with project-based learning and enhanced teacher preparation.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will retain STEM teachers in 10 STEM project-based learning high schools.
Additional Commitment: Build the Movement
Will prepare 100 new, certified secondary STEM teachers.
State of Colorado, Office of the Governor
Will increase the number of Colorado students who earn STEM degrees from our state’s colleges and universities. That takes a strong STEM pipeline--and a strong STEM pipeline begins with high-quality STEM educators.
State of Maryland
Will build a model for effective partnerships, innovative statewide initiatives, and targeted investments for STEM teacher preparation and support to help better prepare Maryland residents and companies for the New Economy.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will triple the number of STEM teachers prepared in Maryland, increase their five-year retention rate, and enhance the basic STEM skills of all teachers.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will increase the number of STEM graduates from Maryland post-secondary institutions by 40% by 2015.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will build a STEM Innovation Network, a one-stop-shop where STEM teachers can find the resources, support, and professional connections they need to strengthen STEM teaching and learning statewide.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will develop a new state STEM curriculum based on the Common Core State Standards and will prepare teachers to excel in that curriculum.
Tennessee Department of Education
Will promote the 100Kin10 call to action through the Tennessee STEM Innovation Network of STEM-related businesses and community organizations, two- and four-year post-secondary institutions, and K-12 public school districts across the state.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will form a series of Regional Hubs through the Tennessee STEM Innovation Network that will identify and maximize best practices in STEM teacher support and professional development for replication across the State.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Will fund initiatives to recruit, support, retain, and maximize the impact of excellent STEM teachers.
The Boston Foundation
Will fund programs that prepare and support STEM teachers in Greater Boston, raise greater awareness of STEM education among The Boston Foundation’s grantees, and work with 100Kin10 partners to accelerate reform and strengthen the education pipeline.
The Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT
Will partner with Google to build out a blueprint for a high-profile recognition program for the top 5% of STEM teachers nationwide.
The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
Will fund improvement and expansion of STEM education, including teacher training and placement programs.
The Dow Chemical Company
Will fund professional development and resource support for STEM teachers.
The Greater Texas Foundation
Will fund initiatives to increase the number highly qualified STEM teachers in Texas and support 100Kin10 in efforts to create new partnerships statewide and nationally.
The Heising-Simons Foundation
Will fund the preparation, training, and professional development of early math teachers (preK-grade 3) in California and will support efforts to expand awareness of the importance of early math.
The Texas Tribune
Will promote 100Kin10 projects through online campaigns targeting our 500,000 monthly readers, will produce STEM-related events to engage policymakers and citizens, and will be a resource for organizations to make public school data more accessible.
The UTeach Institute
Will expand its current network of 25 universities implementing the UTeach secondary STEM teacher preparation program to 50 by 2017 and double the number of STEM majors enrolled in UTeach programs nationwide to 10,000.
TNTP
Will only certify STEM teachers who have a demonstrated impact on raising student achievement by implementing an Assessment of Classroom Effectiveness screen for all participants.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will share data collected on the impact of certification screens on student outcomes and hiring.
Additional Commitment: Increase Supply
Will train 2,100 excellent STEM teachers by 2015.
Urban Teacher Residency United
Will identify, vet, and launch five new STEM teacher residencies in 10 years to expand the reach of high quality STEM teacher preparation and to provide centralized programming and services that increase the supply and quality of STEM teachers to residency programs.
USNY Regents Research Fund
Will prepare hundreds of new, highly qualified STEM teachers through grants to new graduate teacher preparation programs that have committed to clinically rich STEM teacher preparation and certification.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will create an expedited pathway for non-traditionally certified higher education faculty in STEM subjects to work in secondary schools teaching STEM subjects.
Additional Commitment: Build the Movement
Will provide funds to districts to improve the readiness of early-career STEM educators by supporting select high-quality induction programs.
Additional Commitment: Retain Excellence
Will provide financial incentives to excellent teachers in STEM subjects to transfer to or remain in high-need schools through the State’s Transfer and Retention Funds program.
Additional Commitment: Build The Movement
Will overhaul initial certification requirements to demand greater levels of subject-specific content knowledge, as well as implement a new rigorous teacher evaluation system.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Will seek out STEM teacher preparation and support programs for investment and will publicize Open Educational Resources to advance the field’s ability to consistently support deeper learning in STEM.
WNET
Will use its signature educational conference, Celebration of Teaching & Learning, as a gathering place and learning hub for the 100Kin10 partners and produce a series of interstitials or PSAs to bring awareness to the movement for four years.
