The College of Education and Human Services and the “Mountaineer Mathematics Master Teachers” project have selected 16 middle and high school mathematics teachers from across West Virginia to serve as the second cohort of M3T Noyce Fellows, participating in a statewide, mathematics teacher leadership program for the next five years.
The program is supported by a six-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, along with additional grants from the West Virginia Department of Education. Across two cohorts, the program now supports 35 mathematics teachers representing 25 districts across the state.
Moving into its second year, the M3T program seeks to support and retain skilled and experienced secondary mathematics teachers and to empower these teachers as leaders across the state. Furthermore, the program aims to contribute to scaling a model of teacher-led improvement and teacher leadership development statewide as well as sharing that emerging model across the country.
The second cohort of M3T Noyce Fellows represent 15 districts across West Virginia:
Berkeley County Schools
Joshua Jones, Martinsburg North Middle School
Brooke County Schools
Karen Keener, Brooke High School
Cabell County Schools
Michael Harshbarger, Cabell County Career Technology Center
Fayette County Schools
Analea Shepard, Oak Hill High School
Hardy County Schools
Randall Wolfe, East Hardy High School
Lincoln County Schools
Ashley Wilson, Guyan Valley Middle School
Logan County Schools
Brittany Kammerer, Logan High School
Marshall County Schools
Michael Juliano, Cameron High School
Mineral County Schools
Sarah Malone, Frankfort Middle School
Mingo County Schools
Amy Salmons, Tug Valley High School
Morgan County Schools
Sherry Hartman, Berkeley Springs High School
Ohio County Schools
Jack Kaniecki, Wheeling Park High School
Annie Vopal, Warwood School
Putnam County SchoolsS
Joshua Isaacs, Buffalo High School
Wood County Schools
Steve Freshour, Williamstown High School
West Virginia Schools of Diversion and Transition
Elaine Schwing, Board of Child Care
“We are fortunate to be able to continue to grow the M3T network with the selection of this exemplary group of mathematics teachers from across West Virginia,” said Matthew Campbell, associate professor of secondary mathematics education and principal investigator on the M3T project. “This allows us to continue to learn about what it takes to put teachers’ voices at the center of efforts to collectively improve mathematics teaching and learning at a statewide scale.”
Each M3T Noyce Fellow will receive a $10,000 annual stipend throughout the five-year fellowship, tied to their continued work as mathematics teachers in West Virginia and participation in the project’s teacher leadership opportunities. Fellows’ experiences in the project will include development activities to improve their mathematics teaching as well as their emerging work as teacher leaders. At the conclusion of their participation in the project, fellows will mentor other emerging teacher leaders across the state.
The second cohort of M3T Noyce Fellows was welcomed to the project during a three-day summer institute, held virtually in June. Fellows in the second cohort will spend their first year getting oriented to the project and focusing on problematizing and improving their own classroom practice. Over the next year, fellows from the first cohort will be recruiting and facilitating local improvement teams with colleagues in their school or district as part of the activities for their second year in the fellowship.
“In a year of unprecedented challenge, our first cohort of M3T Fellows provided a vision of fresh possibility for a model of continuous improvement that keeps us all connected and inspired,” said Joanna Burt-Kinderman, co-investigator on the M3T project and mathematics instructional coach in Pocahontas County Schools. “Now, the commitment of 25 participating districts to empowering teacher leadership will magnify the impact of our project, reaching more teachers and kids in our state.”
Read more about the M3T project.