Grant makes doable the career-changing transition of 700 Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) professionals to instructing in Title 1 CA faculties
— Katherine Wilcox, Executive Director
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA, September 7, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — The EnCorps STEM Teachers Program was not too long ago awarded a 4 12 months $2.8M California STEM Teacher Recruitment Grant. With the extra funding, EnCorps goals to transition 700 Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) professionals on a path to instructing in Title 1 faculties, specializing in districts with a excessive variety of deprived college students and the best demand for STEM lecturers, together with: Antioch, Oakland, Mt. Diablo, Pittsburg, Los Angeles, Santa Ana, Garden Grove, Corona-Norco, Riverside, Elk Grove, Twin Rivers, Fontana, Grossmont, Oceanside, San Diego, San Francisco, Lodi, Stockton, East Side Union & Santa Clara County Office of Education.
EnCorps’ objective is to extend instructional fairness by lowering the STEM trainer scarcity and selling a extra numerous STEM trainer workforce.
“We are thrilled that the California STEM Teacher Recruitment Grant allows EnCorps to expand its reach to additional California regions where students need qualified, dedicated and inspiring STEM teachers,” explains Katherine Wilcox, Executive Director with EnCorps. “Our five-year teacher retention rate for EnCorps-trained teachers is over 80% versus the national average of 50%. We are therefore confident that our EnCorps Fellows will have a long-term and positive impact on students and their community.”
Additional data on the STEM Teacher Recruitment Grant is offered on the Office of Public School Construction web site.
About EnCorps STEM Teacher Program
The EnCorps STEM Teachers Program empowers science, know-how, engineering and math (STEM) professionals to rework public training by instructing in excessive wants faculties. Enduring STEM achievement, entry, and literacy gaps disproportionately restrict low earnings, under-resourced, and minority pupil alternatives. STEM professionals, when totally ready, are uniquely positioned to meaningfully make the most of their expertise and real-world experience as EnCorps STEM Teachers to ship an genuine, rigorous, and related STEM training to the scholars who want it most. EnCorps is an modern, long-term resolution to the scarcity of top of the range, impactful educators for under-resourced college students in excessive wants faculties.
Nathalie Benoit
EnCorps STEM Teachers Program
+1 (424) 367 3660 ext 300
[email protected]
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