Teaching Matters Advances Education Equity in New York City with $500,000 Grant Press Release Press Release New York, NY October 23, 2019 — Teaching Matters, an education nonprofit increasing teacher effectiveness and student success, received a $500,000 grant to lead improvement methods in partnership with high-needs schools in New York City.
TEACHING MATTERS TO EXPAND EARLY READING MATTERS PROGRAM WITH GRANTS FROM BOOTH FERRIS AND HECKSCHER FOUNDATIONS Press Release Press Release New York, NY, September 12, 2019 – Teaching Matters, a professional learning organization dedicated to increasing teacher effectiveness to improve student success, has been awarded two grants in the combined amount of $450,000 to fund their Early Reading Matters (ERM) program.
Burck Smith, Craig Robinson Join Teaching Matters’ Advisory Board Press Release Press Release New York, NY June 26, 2019 — Craig Robinson, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer for NBCUniversal and Burck Smith, Chief Executive Officer and founder of StraighterLine, joined Teaching Matters Advisory Board this month.
Teaching Matters to Expand Early Literacy Program with Nearly $500,000 Grant Press Release Press Release NEW YORK, December 3rd, 2018 – The W.K. Kellogg Foundation based in Battle Creek, Mich. made a $483,582 grant to strengthen and expand Teacher Matters’ Early Reading Matters program. The award allows the nonprofit to expand its early literacy program to 80 schools by developing online competency-based resources for teachers.
Teaching Matters, New York City Department of Education Implement Nation’s Largest Micro-credentialing Program to Certify Teacher Leaders Press Release Press Release NEW YORK, August 8, 2018 – Teaching Matters and the New York City Department of Education led the country’s largest micro-credentialing initiative for Teacher Leaders—over 200 teachers earned 642 micro-credentials for demonstrating mastery of critical teaching and leadership competencies.
Teaching Matters, Council of Supervisors and Administrators of NYC Partner to Reward Micro-credentials in Culturally Responsive Educationby Editorial Team Posted on April 25, 2018 Press Release Competency-based Micro-Credentials / Press Release Press Release NEW YORK, April 24, 2018 – Teaching Matters and the Executive Leadership Institute of The Council of Supervisors and Administrators (CSA) of NYC created the first-ever competency-based micro-credential to recognize growth in culturally responsive education.
Teaching Matters Collaborates with Tennessee Department of Education to Recognize Teacher Leadership through Micro-Credentials Press Release Press Release Teaching Matters will work with 100 Tennessee teacher leaders to earn four high-leverage micro-credentials over the course of the 2017-18 school year. The organization’s unique competency-based micro-credentialing system, developed in the nation’s largest school system, emphasizes the demonstration of skills in classrooms coupled with continued support for sustainable system-level improvement.
Teaching Matters Awards $25,000 Elizabeth Rohatyn Prize to Academy of Applied Technology and Mathematicsby Editorial Team Posted on July 19, 2017 Press Release Press Release Press Release: NEW YORK, NY, July 19, 2017 – NEW YORK, NY, July 19, 2017 – Teaching Matters, a leader in the national movement to support teacher leadership, today awarded its seventh annual Elizabeth Rohatyn Prize for Schools Where Teaching Matters to the Academy of Applied Technology and Mathematics (MS 343) from District 7. Educators at the Bronx middle school introduced an initiative titled “Looking at Student Work” that empowers teachers to isolate students’ mistakes and misconceptions, shift instructional strategies and provide highly personalized intervention.
Teaching Matters gets more than $2.2 million for early reading program Press Release New York, NY – November 10, 2016: Teaching Matters is expanding its Early Reading Matters program to 25 high-needs Bronx schools over two years thanks to a $2,287,000 award by the New York Community Trust Brooke Astor Fund for New York City Education. Building on the program’s success in eight schools last year, seven schools will be added, almost doubling the number receiving the program.
Teaching Matters will receive half million to improve teaching effectiveness, Common Core instructionTeaching Matters’ Teacher Leadership Program will expand with the support of a new $500,000 grant from the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at WestEd as part of the Teacher Practice Networks Initiative.The two-year program, “Deepening and Scaling Teacher Leader Support for Common Core-Aligned Instruction in New York City,” launches October 1st.It aims to enhance teaching skills by equipping designated teacher leaders to deepen and spread Common Core aligned instructional practices. A hallmark of the program will be a competency-based focus that shapes, measures, and rewards discrete teacher leadership skills with micro-credentials.