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GTP’s Annual Spring AP Exam Review Program to be Largest Yet

March 2, 2023
The Global Teaching Project provides promising high school students from rural Mississippi communities access to AP STEM courses they need to achieve their full potential, but which their schools typically could not otherwise offer. Those AP courses—in Biology, Physics, and Computer Science—are offered as classes that are part of the regular high school curriculum, which are supplemented by various programs, including immersive, university-based instructional programs held each summer, winter, and spring, with the spring program specifically designed to prepare students for the upcoming AP exams, which are administered in May. In past years, the Spring Review program has been held …

Searching for the Stars: Erin Lippitt, Astrophysicist, Educator, GTP Teaching Assistant

February 9, 2023

A key element of the Global Teaching Project’s blended learning model 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 Columbia. These Teaching Assistants work with students multiple times per week by synchronous video conference, as well as at the Global Teaching Project’s residential programs held throughout the year at Mississippi’s flagship universities. Erin Lippitt, a 2022 Yale graduate, joined the Global Teaching Project in the Summer of 2020 as an AP Physics 1 Teaching Assistant.  She has also traveled to Mississippi numerous times …

GTP’s MLK Program for STEM Education Draws Record Attendance

January 27, 2023

The Global Teaching Project’s annual residential STEM instructional program in Jackson, Mississippi—held over several days leading up to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday—drew record attendance this year, with approximately 200 participants. Advanced Placement STEM students from 19 rural Mississippi high schools took part in immersive instructional sessions that augmented the classes those students are taking in AP Biology, AP Physics 1, and AP Computer Science Principles. Those instructional sessions, held at Jackson State University, were led by Mississippi-based, AP-certified Supervisory Instructors, with additional support from Teaching Assistants and staff from universities around the country, including Virginia, Yale, Harvard, …

The Michael Steele Podcast Features GTP CEO Matt Dolan

January 27, 2023

Founder and CEO of the Global Teaching Project, Matt Dolan, joined Michael Steele on the The Michael Steele Podcast. The pair discussed the challenges students face in rural America, how the Global Teaching Project began, and how to best support students in their educations. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE>> Follow Matt: @MattDolanGTP Follow Michael: @MichaelSteele Follow the podcast: @steele_podcast

Stedman Graham Visits GTP Mississippi Students

October 31, 2022

  Earlier this fall, entrepreneur and author Stedman Graham came to Mississippi to work with Global Teaching Project students to implement his Identity Leadership program, which helps students develop the self-awareness, study habits, time management, and other life skills needed for academic, personal, and professional success.     During his visit, Mr. Graham traveled extensively throughout the Mississippi Delta, and met with hundreds of students, educators, and families from 8 schools in 6 counties. “The Mississippi Delta is a very special place that presents unique promise,” Mr. Graham said.  “I met many extraordinary students who are capable of great things, and I am grateful to be able to help them achieve their …

GTP STEM Access Initiative Achieves Record Participation

October 24, 2022

Initiative provides promising HS students in rural Mississippi access to rigorous courses they need to achieve their full potential. The Global Teaching Project provides promising high school students in rural Mississippi communities access to advanced STEM courses they need to achieve their full potential, but which their schools otherwise could not offer, due to limited resources and a chronic, and worsening, shortage of teachers. GTP’s Advanced STEM Access Program, now in its sixth year, has achieved record participation in the 2022-2023 school year. GTP is currently working with 34 rural Mississippi high schools to offer 68 classes in AP Physics 1, AP Computer Science Principles, and AP Biology. When the …

Tré Peterson: Teaching Assistant and Football Award Winner

October 14, 2022

Yale University junior running back Tré Peterson is a recipient of the New England Football Writers Association Gold Helmet Awards presented by the Jack Grinold/Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the National Football Foundation. Peterson, a native of Columbus, Georgia, and a graduate of Columbus High School, is a Global Teaching Project Teaching Assistant, as well as a student-athlete at Yale. We are proud of Tré’s accomplishments and dedication to his academics, sport, and the students he helps though our Advanced Stem tutoring program. 

GTP Teaching Assistant Gains Recognition Outside of the Classroom

October 4, 2022

Yale standout defensive end and Global Teaching Project Teaching Assistant Osorachukwu Ifesinachukwu has been selected as a semifinalist for the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame’s prestigious 2022 William V. Campbell Trophy, college football’s premier scholar-athlete award. We are proud of Oso’s accomplishments both as a standout student athlete, and also as a mentor for his students. Read the full story>>

Mississippi State Reports on Advanced STEM Summer Preparatory Program

September 26, 2022

Students in the sixth annual Advanced STEM Summer Preparatory Program received immersive instruction to help them prepare to take various Advanced Placement (AP)® science courses offered through Global Teaching Project in the following academic year. These students were tested at the beginning and end of their sessions to assess their progress, and it was proven that they achieved significant gains. Read the full article>>  

Civil Rights veteran Velma Wilson Speaks at MLK Program

February 16, 2022

On January 14, 2022, as part of our annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Advanced STEM Winter Program, the Global Teaching Project hosted a virtual speaking event with Ms. Velma Benson Wilson, Quitman County’s inaugural Economic & Tourism Director.  Each year, our Winter Program seeks to affirm the nexus between Civil Rights and educational opportunity; in learning from leaders like Ms. Wilson, our hope is that students will be encouraged to build upon the work of past generations. Well over 100 participants joined the Zoom event. A recording of our program is here. Bayli Barnes, a student at Madison S. Palmer …

Akira DeLoach Admitted to MIT

Student Spotlight: Akira DeLoach Admitted to MIT

January 30, 2022

Akira DeLoach, a senior at Enterprise High School in rural Mississippi and a student in the Global Teaching Project’s AP Physics 1 class there, has earned admission to the Class of 2026 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Akira plans to major in Mechanical Engineering. Akira’s achievement is extraordinary—MIT is widely regarded as the world’s top university for both Math and Science, and MIT admissions are highly selective. Last year, over 33,000 of the world’s best STEM students applied to MIT, but only 1,365—just 4.1 percent—were admitted. The admissions rate for Akira’s class will be even lower if long-term …