WW Teaching Fellows come from many different backgrounds but are united by a single goal: to teach science, technology, engineering, and math (the STEM fields) in some of the nation’s highest-need schools. But what makes these Fellows tick? What inspired them to pursue a career in the classroom? In this WW Perspectives series, we hear from […]
2018 was a big one for Fellows in the WW network. Frank Bidart WF ’62 won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016. Dereck Hogan Pickering ’93 has been appointed for the office of U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova—the first Pickering Fellow to attain the Ambassadorial rank. And Tamara Markey […]
Tamara Markey, a 2014 WW Indiana Teaching Fellow, was recently named Indiana’s Teacher of the Year. The Lawrence Township Schools (Indianapolis) engineering teacher is in her fourth year of teaching. She was chosen first as the top teacher in her school, then her district, and then the state. Ms. Markey told the Indianapolis Star that […]
Metro Atlanta WW Teaching Fellows were able to expand their classroom learning experiences this school year through the WW + Goizueta Microgrants. The microgrants, established in 2015, allow for Fellows to attend or present at professional conferences, buy teaching materials for their classrooms, or complete community-based service learning projects. Tiffany Parsons, a 2016 WW Georgia […]
Founded in 2015, the Goizueta-WW Enrichment Microgrants Program allows WW Georgia Teaching Fellows to apply for small amounts of funding to attend or present at professional conferences, purchase materials for their classrooms, or complete community-based service learning projects. Over the years, the program has allowed metro Atlanta teachers to create community gardens and drone clubs, […]
In July, nearly 200 Fellows from the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships gathered in Elizabeth, NJ for two days of networking and professional development. Titled “Equity and Excellence,” this fifth national convening of WW Teaching Fellows kicked off with a keynote panel of noted education leaders who discussed their work and the work of all educators […]
WW Teaching Fellows come from many different backgrounds but are united by a single goal: to teach science, technology, engineering, and math (the STEM fields) in some of the nation’s highest-need schools. But what makes these Fellows tick? What inspired them to pursue a career in the classroom? In this WW Perspectives series, we hear […]
Metro Atlanta WW Teaching Fellows were able to expand their classroom learning experiences this school year through the WW + Goizueta Microgrants. The microgrants, established in 2015, allow for Fellows to attend or present at professional conferences, buy teaching materials for their classrooms, or complete community-based service learning projects. The microgrants benefit not only the […]
Mission to Diversify the Teaching Population: Blake Nathan’s TF ’12 Educate ME Foundation It was 2015. Blake Nathan TF ’12 was in just his second year of teaching at an Indianapolis middle school, fresh from Harvard’s Urban Principal National Leadership Institute, and working towards a second master’s degree in Education Leadership from Indiana University–Purdue University […]
WW Teaching Fellows come from many different backgrounds but are united by a single goal: to teach science, technology, engineering, and math (the STEM fields) in some of the nation’s highest-need schools. But what makes these Fellows tick? What inspired them to pursue a career in the classroom? In this WW Perspectives series, we hear […]
