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Math/Science Partnership

Grant Number EHR 0514420

 

     The UMBC-BCPS STEM partnership of the Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is an innovative project that facilitates the implementation, testing, refinement and dissemination of promising practices for improving STEM student achievement as well as teacher quality/retention in selected high-needs elementary, middle and high schools in Baltimore County Public Schools. Centered on creating and evaluating performance-based preservice teacher education (interns) programs and sustainable professional development programs for teachers and administrators, the project is designed to increase P-12 student achievement in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by increasing intern/teacher and administrator knowledge and confidence related to these areas.

 

    The Principal Investigator of the UMBC-BCPS STEM Project is Anne Spence, Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering at UMBC.

 

 

The latest project news...

 

August 2008 - Graduation Day

    Twelve members of in-service Science Cohort are awarded their MAE degree.

 

May 2008 - Graduation Day

    Eleven members of pre-service Cohort IV are awarded their MAT degree.

 

April 18, 2008 - Conversation about Teacher Quality

     Project Leaders present at the Maryland Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

 

February 2008 - Sharing Our Knowledge

    Lee County Public Schools, NC, discover how to become a STEM academy.

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