Cameron Keys achieves exceptional score on AP Computer Science Exam; Cai Davis awarded National Science Foundation Scholarship. The Global Teaching Project was founded on a simple premise—every community has promising students capable of excelling academically, even in rigorous courses, if provided quality instruction and sufficient supports. GTP’s Advanced STEM Access …
The Global Teaching Project’s extraordinary Teaching Assistants are a critical, and unique, component of our blended learning model. The Teaching Assistants—Science majors from leading universities—provide substantive instruction for our students, and much more: the Teaching Assistants also are exemplars of achievement, and emissaries from the broader world beyond the rural …
In the 2021-2022 school year, the Global Teaching Project has dramatically expanded its already unique reach into rural, high-poverty communities, providing educational opportunities that otherwise would be unavailable. Since its inception in 2017, the Global Teaching Project’s Advanced STEM Access Program has proven uniquely successful in providing promising high school …
Professor Lisa Urry, lead author of the nation’s most widely used Biology textbook, will serve as lead instructor of the Global Teaching Project’s inaugural Advanced Placement (AP)® Biology course. That course is being offered in the 2021-2022 academic year to promising high school students in rural Mississippi through a pilot …
A key element of the Global Teaching Project’s blended learning model—which employs multiple means to engage students and facilitate learning—is the extensive tutoring provided by college STEM majors from leading universities around the country, such as Yale, the University of Virginia, Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania. Those tutors …
A study by the University of Mississippi Center for Research Evaluation (CERE) has found that high school students in the Advanced STEM Access Program—implemented by the Global Teaching Project in collaboration with a consortium of rural Mississippi public school districts— achieved significant, quantifiable benefits during its most recent Summer residential …
We are very pleased to announce that Mississippi educator Nicole Roberson has been named as the inaugural Executive Director of the Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access. The Consortium, now in its fifth year, was formed by several Mississippi public school districts to work with the Global Teaching Project …
On June 30, 2021, Mississippi State’s baseball team won the national championship. The Bulldogs earned the school’s first national title in any team sport with a 9-0 victory over two-time recent champion Vanderbilt in the decisive final game of the College World Series. MSU’s baseball team deserves congratulations. Even more …
The Global Teaching Project provides promising high school students from rural, high-poverty communities access to advanced STEM courses they need to achieve their full potential, but which their schools otherwise could not provide. Our students have been selected for our program because they have demonstrated a high aptitude and strong …
Earlier this week, a team from the Washington bureau of cable news network News Nation came to the town of Marks in the Mississippi Delta at the invitation of the Global Teaching Project. The News Nation report that aired was prompted in part by our essay on Marks and the …
The Global Teaching Project was proud to host a Virtual Student Recognition Program on March 9, 2021 to recognize the hard work and dedication of students who have shown extraordinary commitment in the face of unprecedented challenges.
Teaching is at the heart of the Global Teaching Project’s mission. Teacher shortages across the country prevent students from accessing advanced coursework, which, in turn, impedes their ability to pursue, and complete, a college education. To address that growing crisis, the Global Teaching Project provides promising high school students in rural …