{"id":204518,"date":"2024-10-01T15:44:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T01:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=204518"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:44:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T01:44:43","slug":"culturally-responsive-math-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/10\/01\/culturally-responsive-math-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.2M<\/abbr> to develop culturally responsive math teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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From left: Laurie James, Veny Liu, Monica Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>–West Oʻahu<\/span> and Â鶹´«Ã½M\u0101noa College of Education have been awarded nearly $1.2 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF<\/abbr>) to launch the “Culturally Responsive Education and Teaching Empowerment” (CREATE) project. The five-year initiative aims to develop culturally responsive secondary math teachers to serve Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students in high-need schools across Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Funded by the NSF<\/abbr>\u2019s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, the grant will provide scholarships, stipends and support to STEM majors pursuing a career in teaching.<\/p>\n

“This award will not only fill in teaching shortages but also ensure they are filled by highly qualified educators,” said Principal Investigator Veny Liu, an associate professor of mathematics at UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The program will offer scholarships to eligible UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> students pursuing a bachelor of science in natural science degree with an applied mathematics concentration and eligible students pursuing a teaching certificate from UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s post-baccalaureate program with Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages courses during their senior year and post-baccalaureate years.<\/p>\n

Scholarship recipients will be called Noyce Scholars and will commit to teaching full-time in the Kaimuk\u012b-McKinley-Roosevelt Complex Area in the Honolulu District or other high-need areas in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> for two years for each year that scholarship support was received.<\/p>\n

“Our work creates a bridge between UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> and UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa to develop culturally responsive math educators for Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s schools,” said CREATE Co-Principal Investigator and UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Associate Professor Monica Smith.<\/p>\n

CREATE will begin accepting applications in spring 2025. Interested students can email Liu at venyliu@hawaii.edu<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

The grant also supports the Peer Academic Leader (PAL<\/abbr>) project, which employs UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> students who enjoy math and science to facilitate tutoring and academic support sessions, among other duties. Students interested in becoming a PAL<\/abbr> can apply at the UH<\/abbr> System Student Employment and Co-operative Education<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

For more visit Ka Puna O Kaloʻi<\/span><\/em><\/a>.
\n—By Zenaida Serrano Arvman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> and UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s College of Education will provide scholarships and support to eligible students to eventually teach in high-need areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[95,204,33,1465,554,313,9,947,59],"class_list":["post-204518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-education","tag-education","tag-hawaiian","tag-manoa-native-hawaiian-place-of-learning","tag-mathematics","tag-stem","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t