Who We Are
MƒA Fellowship
MƒA Early Career Fellowship
MƒA Master Teacher Fellowship
MƒA School Leader Fellowship
Community
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Who We Are
Math for America was founded in New York City in 2004 with a mission to improve mathematics education in US public secondary schools by recruiting, training and retaining outstanding mathematics teachers. MƒA NY offers the MƒA Fellowship, MƒA Early Career Fellowship, MƒA Master Teacher Fellowship and MƒA School Leader Fellowship.
The MƒA NY Fellowship and MƒA NY Master Teacher Fellowship were the congressional model for legislation creating the National Science Foundation Teaching and Master Teacher Fellowships through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program in the America COMPETES Act.
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Fellowship Opportunities
MƒA Fellowship
The MƒA NY Fellowship is a five-year program where recent college graduates and mid-career professionals make a commitment to teach math in New York City public secondary schools. MƒA Fellows are mathematically talented individuals who are new to teaching.
How the Program Works
Year One: MƒA NY Fellows prepare to become a public secondary school math teacher.
- Full-tuition scholarship for a master’s degree in Secondary Mathematics Education especially designed for MƒA Fellows at the City University of New York (CUNY) school, the City College of New York
- $30,000 stipend
Years Two through Five: MƒA NY Fellows find a full-time position and teach mathematics in a public secondary school in New York City, attend monthly professional development workshops at MƒA and work with an advisor.
- $70,000 in stipends over four years, in addition to New York City’s competitive teaching salary
- Job search support, including assistance from MƒA in identifying schools, reviewing Fellows’ resumes and providing job opportunities through the MƒA online community
- Mentoring from MƒA New Teacher Advisors who visit Fellows on a regular basis in and outside of their classrooms and offer guidance and support
- Participation in MƒA NY corps activities and professional development workshops
- Support and funding for national and local math and education conference attendance and participation
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MƒA Early Career Fellowship
The MƒA NY Early Career Fellowship provides professional support and growth opportunities to current new teachers of secondary mathematics in a New York City public school or recent graduates of education training programs who are certified to teach in New York City, have secured an eligible job, and are committed to ongoing professional development.
MƒA Early Career Fellows commit to attending monthly workshops throughout each of the four years of the Fellowship, and are offered a range of support including:
- $70,000 in stipends over four years
- Camaraderie with a cohort of outstanding secondary school math teachers
- Mentoring from MƒA Early Career Advisors, veteran teachers who visit Early Career Fellows in their schools and provide instructional support and guidance
- Professional development opportunities that enhance Early Career Fellows’ skills, knowledge and leadership experience such as monthly cohort meetings, subject-based Professional Learning Team Meetings and mini-courses
- Generous funding for national and local conference participation, including the NCTM Annual Meetings, MathFest and the Park City Mathematics Institute, as well as classroom supplies
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MƒA Master Teacher Fellowship
The MƒA NY Master Teacher Fellowship rewards exceptional public secondary school mathematics teachers with a four-year Fellowship. The program includes stipends of up to $60,000 over four years, professional development and leadership opportunities and support for mathematical and educational interests.
MƒA Master Teachers commit to attending seven workshops per year and are offered a range of professional development opportunities including:
- Monthly cohort meetings where outside experts, MƒA staff and fellow Master Teachers lead workshops that provide new insights into ways of thinking about and teaching mathematics
- Professional Learning Teams that are facilitated by trained Master Teachers and provide ongoing subject-specific working groups
- Mini-courses which offer in-depth explorations of higher level mathematics or intensive work around topics such as discourse in the mathematics classroom
- Attending or presenting at national or local conferences, in addition to creating, planning and leading professional development workshops and activities that are meaningful to Fellows, Early Career Fellows and other Master Teachers as well as their schools or the NYC mathematics education community
- Outside enrichment opportunities such as participation in workshops developed in partnership with the New York Academy of Sciences, being sponsored for a course with the New York City Math Circle or attending the Park City Mathematics Institute
- Support for leadership work in a particular school, across a network of schools or the city-at-large and in the MƒA community
- Leadership training courses for workshops facilitators and Department Chairs, professional learning teams for Cooperating Teachers to MƒA Fellows, one-on-one support for the development of conference presentations and National Board Certification reimbursement
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MƒA School Leader Fellowship
The new MƒA School Leader Fellowship is a two-year program for mathematics teachers who have moved into leadership positions in their schools. Geared towards school administrators who supervise the mathematics faculty, the MƒA School Leader Fellowship offers a mathematics-rich community for professional administrators in the New York City Department of Education who are looking for support to further the development of the mathematics community in their school.
The program offers professional support and enrichment opportunities, including:
- $10,000 in stipends over two years
- $20,000 in funding over two years to the school for the purposes of improving mathematics instruction
- Membership in a community of administrators and the ability to connect with a mathematically talented cohort of colleagues who support their endeavors
- Participation in a range of professional development opportunities, including monthly cohort meetings where new and veteran mathematics administrators interact with like-minded leaders
- Funding for conference and workshop participation
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Community
MƒA NY aims to build a corps of outstanding public school secondary mathematics teachers that ultimately transforms the teaching and learning of mathematics across the city. MƒA NY offers Fellows, Early Career Fellows, Master Teachers, School Leader Fellows and outside public secondary school teachers a Professional Development and Outreach (PDO) group. The PDO group, created in partnership with the IAS/Park City Math Institute (PCMI), supports mathematics teachers through workshops and outreach activities. By hosting a variety of professional development workshops, seminars and events MƒA NY keeps Fellows, Early Career Fellows and Master Teachers connected to one another and helps them to learn new skills and strategies.
MƒA NY encourages collaboration between its teachers through social events, such as dinners, softball games and an annual gala honoring MƒA teachers. Through the Small-World Network, an online community on MƒA’s website that’s accessible only by MƒA teachers, MƒA staff, Fellows, Early Career Fellows, Master Teachers and School Leader Fellows congregate, communicate and support one another on an ongoing basis.
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FAQs
To learn more about our Fellowship programs, read the MƒA NY Fellowship FAQs, the MƒA NY Early Career Fellowship FAQs or the MƒA NY Master Teacher Fellowship FAQs.
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Contact Information
646-437-0904
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