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Thank you to our community of MƒA teachers, as well as teachers across NYC and the country, for always going above and beyond for your students, colleagues, and the profession at large.

MƒA teachers worked with GIS tools, exploring various demographic indices such as pollution, health disparities, and socioeconomic factors, comparing them with national and state-level data.

In this talk, Dan Meyer engaged teachers in exercises designed to develop their pedagogical content knowledge—“pushups” for the teacher brain.

MƒA teachers participated in a guided, hands-on introductory immersion into 3D computer-aided design modeling, developing project adaptable to their classrooms.

How MƒA Master Teacher Sylvia Gayatinea creates connections between nuclear chemistry, history and ethics for her students.

MƒA teachers built a collection of images and stories of weaving from their own lives, constructing cardboard and canvas looms and weaving paper and small textiles. 

In a story for The 74, MƒA Master Teachers Maureen Stewart and Dawn Pagliaro-Newman detail their growing understanding and teaching of Dyscalculia, a math-related learning disorder.

How Daniel Madden discovered why arts is an essential part of the STEM curriculum at MƒA.