Press Releases
Peek inside the 2024–2025 Annual Report to see how MƒA teachers are leading the way in STEM education.
At MƒA, we believe that making it possible for expert teachers to collaborate, learn, and lead strengthens our education system and is the best way to ensure all students get the education they deserve. MƒA continues to be a model for the profession that shows how it might evolve. During the 2024-2025 school year, MƒA continued to grow, and we remain on track to return to our pre-pandemic level of 1,000 teachers by 2026. Many innovations adopted during the pandemic, such as virtual programming, are now simply standard practice at MƒA, and we have found a balance between in-person and remote options that allow us to reach teachers in efficient, novel ways without sacrificing the human connections that empower our community to thrive.
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Our robust and engaging professional development program remains the foundation of everything we do at MƒA. We are also committed to continuing to build on that foundation, evolving our programming, and exploring special projects with the potential to expand our impact. In the last year, we launched or continued ambitious new initiatives that we expect to flourish in the years to come. We are particularly focused on how we can leverage our teacher network in new and exciting ways to make a direct impact on students.
Last fall, nearly 1,300 teachers attended our annual Fall ƒunction gala at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. Our gathering was bittersweet, being the first time holding the event without our founder Jim Simons, who passed away in May 2024. In addition to celebrating our teachers, we paid tribute to the passion, vision, and generosity that inspired Jim to create a program that has been thriving for more than twenty years.
Educators continue to face many challenges. At MƒA, we remain committed to furthering Jim’s vision, rooted in his belief that students benefit when accomplished teachers are trusted, respected, and supported. We hope this report will provide a portrait of our teachers, their accomplishments, and their communities.
Looking Forward
We’re proud to announce that for the 2025-2026 school year, 109 New York City K-12 public school teachers have been awarded four-year MƒA fellowships, growing the larger MƒA community to 988 teaching professionals who advance the profession through collaboration, learning, and leadership. Overall, MƒA Master Teachers teach in 382 schools across all five boroughs reaching over 100,000 students.
At MƒA, we’ve created fellowships for accomplished mathematics and science teachers. Our model is based on the belief that collaboration, continued learning, and genuine respect enables teachers to grow professionally and provides long-term career satisfaction. This is a remarkable community of teachers who stay in the profession longer and define what teaching excellence means. These are teachers who inspire and motivate their colleagues. They change the lives of their students.