MƒA Fellowship
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MƒA Fellowship
MƒA LA Fellows, like their counterparts in other cities, will commit to a five-year program that includes one year of full-time graduate study and four years of teaching in secondary schools.
MƒA LA Fellows will receive a full tuition scholarship to attend either the Teacher Education Internship Program at the CGU School of Educational Studies or the Masters of Arts in Teaching and Teaching Credentialing Program at the USC Rossier School of Education, both of which offer fellows a master's degree in education and preliminary teaching credential in just over one year. In addition, MƒA LA Fellows will receive an annual stipend of approximately $20,000 each of the five years of the Fellowship.
MƒA LA will also provide Fellows with substantial, targeted professional development and experienced teacher mentors with the goal of helping them become certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards by the end of their 5-year fellowship.
The professional development of MƒA LA Teaching Fellows will be carried out in partnership with the Harvey Mudd College Professional Development and Outreach Group and the Secondary School Teacher Program of the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute.
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Goal of MƒA Los Angeles
The goal of MƒA LA is to raise student mathematics achievement by recruiting and supporting highly skilled secondary mathematics teachers in the greater Los Angeles area.
Who We Are
The University of Southern California (USC), Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and Harvey Mudd College (HMC) have joined together with MƒA to create Math for America Los Angeles (MƒA LA).
The great diversity of academic backgrounds, family situations and attitudes towards education in the greater Los Angeles area creates many challenges and potential success stories for educators.
The urban sprawl that makes up the greater Los Angeles area (consisting of the five counties, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Ventura) is known for its incredible ethnic and socioeconomic diversity.
The greater Los Angeles area is home to extremely large and small school districts. Second in size only to the New York City School District, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) consists of 969 schools (including charter schools) that serve over 700,000 students. The ethnic designations Hispanic (73.2 percent) and black (11.4 percent) best describe the vast majority of LAUSD students.
According to the California Council on Science and Technology, a critical shortage of mathematics and science teachers over the next decade will undermine California's competitive edge and threaten its economic health.
One contributing factor to this shortage of teachers in Los Angeles is that it is consistently rated as one of the most expensive places to live in the United States.
According to Demographia, an international demographic and urban policy firm, Los Angeles and Orange counties have the least affordable housing markets in the world (based on the ratio of median home price to median salary, as quoted in Los Angeles Times, February 18, 2007).
MƒA LA Executive Steering Committee
- Jack Borsting, Director, The Rose Hills Foundation (chair)
- Max Nikias, Provost, USC (co-chair)
- Maria Klawe, President, HMC (co-chair)
- Karen Gallagher, Dean of Education, USC
- Lisa Loop, Co-Director, Teacher Education Program, CGU
- David Drew, Professor of Education, CGU
- Darryl Yong, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, HMC
- Pam Mason, Executive Director, MƒA LA
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Contact Information:
Pam Mason, Executive Director MƒA LA
213-740-6740
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