{"69268":{"#nid":"69268","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Partnerships Support State K-12 STEM Education","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EStrengthening education\nin science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) remains a priority\nin Georgia. With approximately\n$1.6 million in funding made possible through Race to the Top (RT3) program, the\nGeorgia Institute of Technology is partnering with K-12 schools to address this\nchallenge.\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has a role in three of the five\nprojects approved through the initial round of Innovation Fund grants recently\nannounced by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal. The projects were selected from among 70\ncompeting for support of high-impact programs for student success. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETeach for Georgia, a collaborative partnership\nbetween Georgia Tech, the Okefenokee Regional Educational Services Agency\n(RESA) and the Ware and Dougherty county school districts, is a teacher\npipeline program modeled after the successful Teach for America (TFA)\ninitiative. A $1 million grant will provide funding to recruit Georgia Tech\nSTEM majors to teach in underserved rural Georgia school districts. The grant\nwill cover two years of competitive salaries and certification support for program\nparticipants.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThere are a myriad of reasons for the shortage of\nacademically qualified STEM secondary education teachers in rural Georgia,\naccording to Donna Llewellyn, director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for the\nEnhancement of Teaching and Learning. \u201cTeach for Georgia will address two of\nour primary concerns: the shortage of necessary funds available to hire new\nteachers and the ability to attract new STEM graduates to these communities.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EA second $270,000 grant will support continued collaboration\nbetween Barrow County and Georgia Tech for a novel program that brings\nhigher-education instruction to K-12 students via a sophisticated\nhigh-definition (HD) videoconferencing platform. Known as Direct to Discovery\n(D2D), the program has already connected high-school classrooms directly to\ncutting-edge research under the direction of scientists and engineers from\nGeorgia Tech and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will also partner with Georgia State\nUniversity and Drew Charter School to establish one of the state\u2019s first STEAM\n(science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) programs. The initiative involves collaboration with three Georgia\nTech units: Center for Education Integrating\nScience, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC), Ferst Center for the Arts and the College of\nArchitecture.\u0026nbsp;CEISMC will also provide professional development for\nteachers and conduct project evaluation.\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech will receive\napproximately $385,000 to support these programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/opb.georgia.gov\/00\/channel_title\/0,2094,161890977_161981058,00.html\u0022\u003EInnovation\nFund\u003C\/a\u003E\nwas created from $400 million in RT3 funding awarded in August 2010. The\nstate\u2019s application included extensive input from education stakeholders and\nmembers of the business and philanthropic communities who helped develop the program.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Initiatives funded through Race to the Top Innovation Grant program"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStrengthening education\nin science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) remains a priority\nin Georgia. With approximately\n$1.6 million in funding made possible through Race to the Top (RT3) program, the\nGeorgia Institute of Technology is partnering with K-12 schools to address this\nchallenge.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Strengthening education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) remains a priority in Georgia."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2011-08-10 17:48:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:55","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"69269":{"id":"69269","type":"image","title":"Teach for Georgia","body":null,"created":"1449177252","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:14:12","changed":"1475894606","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:26","alt":"Teach for Georgia","file":{"fid":"193401","name":"cetl.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cetl_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cetl_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2732357,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cetl_0.jpg?itok=2ci5mHNv"}}},"media_ids":["69269"],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"411","name":"CEISMC"},{"id":"13972","name":"Innovation Grant"},{"id":"11188","name":"Race to the Top"},{"id":"13971","name":"RT3"},{"id":"168996","name":"steam"},{"id":"167258","name":"STEM"},{"id":"13970","name":"Teach for Georgia"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Grovenstein, 404-894-8835\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}