The Maryland Council of Teachers of Mathematics (MCTM) is a public voice of mathematics education, inspiring vision, providing leadership, offering professional development, and supporting equitable mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students.
The Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics is a state-wide organization dedicated to stimulating an active interest in mathematics teaching and learning by promoting the improvement of mathematics education, providing leadership in the professional development of teachers, and facilitating cooperation among organizations at the local, state, and national levels.
The School Science and Mathematics Association is an inclusive professional community of researchers and teachers who promote research, scholarship, and practice that improves school science, mathematics and STEM and advances the integration of science, mathematics and STEM
The mission of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is to provide the vision and leadership necessary to ensure a mathematics education of the highest quality for all students.
The Math Forum is a center for mathematics and mathematics education on the Internet. Its mission is to provide resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions, and educational products and services that enrich and support teaching and learning in an increasingly technological world.
The Mathematical Association of America is the largest professional society that focuses on undergraduate mathematics education. Our members include university, college, and High school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure and applied mathematicians; computer scientists; statisticians; and many others in academia, government, business, and industry.
IGPME promotes international contacts and exchange of scientific information in the field of mathematical education; promotes and stimulates interdisciplinary research in the aforesaid area; and works to further a deeper and more correct understanding of the psychology and other aspects of teaching and learning mathematics and the implications thereof.
promote international cooperation in mathematics. By supporting and assisting the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) and other international scientific meetings/conferences. To acknowledge outstanding research contributions to mathematics, through the awarding of scientific prizes and to encourage and support other international mathematical activities, considered likely to contribute to the development of mathematical science in any of its aspects, whether pure, applied, or educational.
The mission of MPS is to harness the collective efforts of the mathematical and physical sciences communities to address the most compelling scientific questions, educate the future advanced high-tech workforce, and promote discoveries to meet the needs of the Nation.
COMPLETE stands for Center for Outreach for Mathematics Professional learning and Educational Technology. This joint Center between College of Education and Human Development and the College of Science was established in 2008 to provide Outreach and Professional Learning through the support of VDOE and SCHEV and more recently through funding from NSF.
Classroom teachers and mathematics specialists are continually on the look-out for great resources. This website is designed to provide a "one-stop-shop" to students who are the current teachers and leaders of mathematics. Many of the resources have been either highlighted in our coursework or shared by their peers.
The K–12 Mathematics Curriculum Center aims to help teachers and administrators make thoughtful, informed decisions about mathematics curriculum and instructional materials. Our projects explore and analyze how curriculum decisions are made in K–12 mathematics programs, provide resources that support good curriculum selection and implementation, and connect research and practice in mathematics instruction.
RadicalMath empowers educators to address issues of social and racial justice in math classrooms through curriculum, lesson planning resources, and professional development opportunities.
The Maryland Association of Science Teachers (MAST), a local affiliate of the National Science Teachers Association, is a professional, non-profit organization dedicated to science education in the state of Maryland.
VAST was formed in 1952 with the mission of promoting excellence in science teaching and learning in Virginia. VAST is the Virginia state chapter of the National Science Teaching Association.
Benchmarks for Science Literacy is a companion report to Science for All Americans. SFAA describes what constitutes adult scientific literacy; Benchmarks suggests how students might progress toward that goal. This document is a tool to be used in designing a curriculum, not a particular curriculum design itself.
Guidelines for K-12 science education in United States schools. They were established by the National Research Council in 1996 to provide a set of goals for teachers to set for their students and for administrators to provide professional development. The NSES have significnatly influenced various states' own science learning standards and state-wide standardized testing. The tables below are summaries of key issues expressed in the NSES.
NSEC is an organization of campus-based centers and offices that serve as catalysts for educational transformation in STEM. The network allows center leadership, university and college administrators, and state and national policymakers to have a central hub for their communal efforts.
Unifies thousands of Federal science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education resources. All resources are automatically tagged by average grade level. Content includes lesson plans, curricula, classroom activities, homework help and information relating to professional development.
The Standards of Learning and Curriculum Framework comprise the science content that teachers in Virginia are expected to teach and students are expected to learn.
Primarily reinforces material that Bill Nye presents on his TV show. His style and humor entertains and educates the student, while really getting the points of each lesson across.. Consider it a great resource to support classroom lectures and projects.
The center for Social Equity through Science Education is a group of researchers, educators, and university students who are dedicated to helping all people to have a richer understanding of science.
Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies, Science Friday is the source for entertaining and educational stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.
The goals of the Virginia Council for the Social Studies are to foster professional growth, develop communication among stakeholders in the social studies community, and promote the teaching of social studies in Virginia, the United States, and the international sphere.
The Maryland Council for Social Studies (MDCSS) is dedicated to the promotion and support of social studies education in Maryland and the United States. MDCSS works to build a community of social studies educators in the state of Maryland, and through this network advance cultural understanding, respect for human differences, and an appreciation of diversity.
The Council for Economic Education (CEE) is the leading non-profit organization in the United States that focuses on personal finance and economic education for K-12 students. By providing kids with the knowledge and vocabulary of money, we give them the essential tools to create financial stability and opportunity for themselves, their families, and their communities.
NCGE promotes geographic teaching by providing professional development opportunities, producing journals and other geography publications, developing and distributing content and resources, honoring teachers, mentors and researchers; advocating for geography in schools; and organizing an annual conference and other forums for educators. NCGE promotes the greater sharing of ideas, information, best practices and innovative processes.
NCPH inspires public engagement with the past and serves the needs of practitioners in putting history to work in the world by building community among historians, expanding professional skills and tools, fostering critical reflection on historical practice, and publicly advocating for history and historians.
The largest association in the country devoted solely to social studies education, NCSS engages and supports educators in strengthening and advocating social studies
The standards of learning and curriculum framework comprise the history and social science content that teachings in Virginia are expected to teach and students are expected to learn.
Provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into socially equitable centers of learning where students become architects of a better future.
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