Facebook Twitter Youtube Linkedin Instagram Broadening Participation of Rural Young Women in Careers Involving Advanced Mathematics A recent conversation with my eleven year old daughter went a little awry. When I asked her if she knew any female mathematicians, she pondered it for a moment and then admitted that she didn’t know ANY mathematicians. Fair… [Read More]
Place-Based Learning for Elementary Science at Scale (PeBLES2)
Facebook Twitter Youtube Linkedin Instagram Place-Based Learning for Elementary Science at Scale (PeBLES2) creates experiences that help students understand their worlds by connecting to local phenomena, communities, and cultures. To support equitable access to place-based science learning opportunities, Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance in collaboration with BSCS Science Learning, will develop and test a model… [Read More]
K-5: CS Fundamentals Intro and CS Fundamentals Deep Dive
Currently, through a partnership with Code.org, we are able to offer a series of FREE, virtual, workshops for K-5 educators (with a minimum of ten educators enrolled). MMSA and our Code.org partner facilitators (who happen to be teachers right here in Maine), can also tailor a free virtual professional learning experience for your district. With… [Read More]
Code.org Professional Learning Program Applications Open for 2021
Educate Maine and Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance are excited to announce that applications for Code.org’s Professional Learning Program are now open. If your school is looking to offer Code.org’s computer science (CS) courses at the middle or high school level in 2021-22, please encourage interested teachers to apply today. Code.org’s Professional Learning Program is… [Read More]
Reflecting on 2020 at MMSA
2021 is here and MMSA is full of hope as we look to the future. In 2020 we were able to support the work of 2,300 educators across the country, over 2,000 of them from Maine. This is even more educators than in 2019! We were able to do this by revising our professional learning… [Read More]
MMSA Introduces New Internship Program
MMSA has embarked on an exciting new adventure by hosting paid interns to assist with our programmatic work. We have recently brought on three college students who will increase MMSA’s capacity while learning new skills and building their resumes. Joshua Flanagan is working on the WeatherBlur and ACRES projects, collaborating with Digital Media Assistant Sierra… [Read More]
MMSA and ELLMS Collaborative work on Retrospective Program Evaluation
MMSA’s research team has been working with the ELLMS Collaborative members starting back in the Fall of active2020 through Spring 2021 to complete a retrospective evaluation of their Residential Environmental Learning Center (RELC) Programs. ELLMS (Environmental Living and Learning for Maine Students) is a collaboration of Maine-based RELCs (Chewonki, The Ecology School, Schoodic Institute, and… [Read More]
Math Coaching Cohorts at MMSA
Math coaching is an important part of MMSA’s professional learning experiences. Over the course of the year we have worked with several districts, developing a mathematics professional learning plan and working with educators depending on the goals the district and educators have set forth. These are some examples from our STEM Math Education Specialists along… [Read More]
STEMports – “Socially Distanced” Augmented Reality Game Goes Live!
STEMports is entering its third year this October and the team is hard at work developing an augmented reality game app for Maine youth! Wait, what was that—what is STEMports? STEMports is a three-year National Science Foundation Smart and Connected Communities project that partners with rural communities and schools to develop an innovative STEM learning… [Read More]