President Obama highlights
Michigan Education Program
WASHINGTON -- As part of a White House event celebrating the importance of teachers in Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education, President Barack Obama highlighted the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation's Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship as a model effort to inspire
students to excel in math and science.
"America's leadership tomorrow depends on how we educate our students today, especially in
science, math and engineering," said President Obama. "That's why I'm pleased to announce the
expansion of our 'Educate to Innovate' campaign today and applaud the several new partnerships
launched that will help meet our goal of moving American students from the middle to the top of the
pack in science and math achievement over the next decade."
The president recognized the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching
Fellowship as one of the new partners of the "Educate to Innovate" campaign.
Six universities that have been selected to participate in the Fellowship program were also
announced - University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Eastern Michigan University, Western
Michigan University, Grand Valley State University, and Wayne State University.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation-funded Fellowship program provides promising future teachers with
an exemplary, intensive master's degree program in education and places those Fellows in
hard-to-staff middle and high schools for a minimum of three years. The Fellowship will prepare 240
teachers for two years beginning in 2011. Through this program, approximately 90,000 students will
receive high-quality instruction in the critical subject areas of STEM from Fellows during their first
three
years in the classroom.
Joining the president at the event were Dr. Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation and a respected expert on teacher education, and Sterling Speirn,
president and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Speirn said the Fellowship program is in keeping
with the Kellogg Foundation's mission to improve learning conditions for vulnerable children,
especially in its home state of Michigan, where there are enormous challenges.
"At the Kellogg Foundation, we look to support innovative partnerships that will help create the
kinds of schools that all children deserve," he said. "Strengthening students' skills in math and
science is necessary to strengthen our state - and nation's - economy."
Dr. Levine said, "America's schools of education are being asked to rise to the challenge of
preparing a new generation of teachers - educators who can teach the most diverse population of
students in the nation's history to meet the highest standards ever demanded by our schools."
Last fall, the Kellogg Foundation announced its $16.7 million grant establishing the WKKF-WW
Michigan Teaching Fellowship.
"Improving the quality of math and science instruction in our schools is critical if we are to reach
our goal of having one of the best-educated workforces on the planet," said Michigan Gov. Jennifer
M. Granholm. "This fellowship will be transformational for our students, teachers and universities."
The Fellows, who will be announced in the spring of 2011, will receive a $30,000 stipend while
they complete the program. They will study a curriculum that is rooted in subject matter, but that
also covers adolescent development and learning, working with parents and communities, and class-
room management.
Beginning in fall 2012, the first team of Fellows will be placed in one of the five school districts
selected (Detroit Public Schools, Battle Creek Public Schools, Kalamazoo Public Schools, Benton
Harbor Area Schools, Grand Rapids Public Schools) and receive intensive support and mentoring to
encourage them to continue teaching as a long-term career. Marks of success for the Fellowship
program will be the Fellows' retention in teaching as well as student learning outcomes in the
Fellows' classrooms.
Working in partnership, the university and school district leaders will identify the middle and high
schools where the Fellows are to gain extensive, supervised field experience -- the same kinds of
high-need schools in which the Fellows will teach when they complete their year-long program.
The Fellows can be college seniors, recent graduates or career changers. The current market
downturn in Michigan has forced many experienced engineers and professionals out of the
workforce, making available a talented pool of workers who can share their knowledge and depth of
experience with the state's students in formal learning settings.
Interested Fellowship applicants contact www.teachingfellowships@woodrow.org.
Michigan Education Program
WASHINGTON -- As part of a White House event celebrating the importance of teachers in Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education, President Barack Obama highlighted the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation's Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship as a model effort to inspire
students to excel in math and science.
"America's leadership tomorrow depends on how we educate our students today, especially in
science, math and engineering," said President Obama. "That's why I'm pleased to announce the
expansion of our 'Educate to Innovate' campaign today and applaud the several new partnerships
launched that will help meet our goal of moving American students from the middle to the top of the
pack in science and math achievement over the next decade."
The president recognized the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching
Fellowship as one of the new partners of the "Educate to Innovate" campaign.
Six universities that have been selected to participate in the Fellowship program were also
announced - University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Eastern Michigan University, Western
Michigan University, Grand Valley State University, and Wayne State University.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation-funded Fellowship program provides promising future teachers with
an exemplary, intensive master's degree program in education and places those Fellows in
hard-to-staff middle and high schools for a minimum of three years. The Fellowship will prepare 240
teachers for two years beginning in 2011. Through this program, approximately 90,000 students will
receive high-quality instruction in the critical subject areas of STEM from Fellows during their first
three
years in the classroom.
Joining the president at the event were Dr. Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation and a respected expert on teacher education, and Sterling Speirn,
president and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Speirn said the Fellowship program is in keeping
with the Kellogg Foundation's mission to improve learning conditions for vulnerable children,
especially in its home state of Michigan, where there are enormous challenges.
"At the Kellogg Foundation, we look to support innovative partnerships that will help create the
kinds of schools that all children deserve," he said. "Strengthening students' skills in math and
science is necessary to strengthen our state - and nation's - economy."
Dr. Levine said, "America's schools of education are being asked to rise to the challenge of
preparing a new generation of teachers - educators who can teach the most diverse population of
students in the nation's history to meet the highest standards ever demanded by our schools."
Last fall, the Kellogg Foundation announced its $16.7 million grant establishing the WKKF-WW
Michigan Teaching Fellowship.
"Improving the quality of math and science instruction in our schools is critical if we are to reach
our goal of having one of the best-educated workforces on the planet," said Michigan Gov. Jennifer
M. Granholm. "This fellowship will be transformational for our students, teachers and universities."
The Fellows, who will be announced in the spring of 2011, will receive a $30,000 stipend while
they complete the program. They will study a curriculum that is rooted in subject matter, but that
also covers adolescent development and learning, working with parents and communities, and class-
room management.
Beginning in fall 2012, the first team of Fellows will be placed in one of the five school districts
selected (Detroit Public Schools, Battle Creek Public Schools, Kalamazoo Public Schools, Benton
Harbor Area Schools, Grand Rapids Public Schools) and receive intensive support and mentoring to
encourage them to continue teaching as a long-term career. Marks of success for the Fellowship
program will be the Fellows' retention in teaching as well as student learning outcomes in the
Fellows' classrooms.
Working in partnership, the university and school district leaders will identify the middle and high
schools where the Fellows are to gain extensive, supervised field experience -- the same kinds of
high-need schools in which the Fellows will teach when they complete their year-long program.
The Fellows can be college seniors, recent graduates or career changers. The current market
downturn in Michigan has forced many experienced engineers and professionals out of the
workforce, making available a talented pool of workers who can share their knowledge and depth of
experience with the state's students in formal learning settings.
Interested Fellowship applicants contact www.teachingfellowships@woodrow.org.
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