Funded Grants

Math Teacher Leader Collaboration (Math TLC) - North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Mathematics and Science Partnerships (MSP) Program

  • Partner: Brunswick County Schools
  • Summary: Math TLC will address targeted gaps or weakenesses in mathematics grades 6-9 by providing professional development (PD) opportunities and follow-up activities in various venues. Ultimately, the intended results of Math TLC will be to show growth in teacher content knowledge, student achievement, classroom instruction, and sustainable partnerships with UNCW as well as highlight teacher gains in self-efficacy. 
  • Fiscal Years: 2015-2018
  • Year 1 Budget: $24,920.17

BRIDGES - North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Mathematics and Science Partnerships (MSP) Program

  • Partner: Onslow County Schools
  • Summary: Bridges connects problem-based learning with all of the math initiatives that we have been a part of over the past ten years including NC-PIMS, PARTNERS, local professional development, and ENVISIONS. Through these ventures our teachers have examined their teaching and grown professionally.
  • Fiscal Years: 2009-2012
  • Funded and Complete Summer, 2012
  • Total Budget: $137,943.00

Math Achievement Success Today (MAST)- North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Mathematics and Science Partnerships (MSP) Program

  • Partner: Brunswick County Schools
  • Summary: Math Achievement Success Today or MAST is a high-school focused program proposed by Brunswick County Schools (BCS) to address targeted gaps or weaknesses in secondary-level mathematics (9-12) and specifically Algebra I, Algebra II, and Geometry. MAST recognizes four major goals and sets forth a specific plan of action to address each one. These goals are the following: 1) to increase teacher content knowledge in math; 2) to raise student math achievement; 3) to improve overall classroom instruction; and 4) to develop a sustainable partnership with the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW).
  • Fiscal Years: 2009-2012
  • Funded and Complete Summer, 2012
  • Total Budget: $53,552.98

Project Based Math (PBM): MSP Grant Proposal- North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Mathematics and Science Partnerships (MSP) Program

  • Partners: Onslow County Schools
  • Summary: The Onslow County school system has responded to the call for 21st Century skills through an increased emphasis on integrated STEM instruction in K-8 classrooms and the implementation of themed schools which focus on STEM implementation developed by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's STEM Education Schools and Programs was used to evaluate the STEM attributes that describe a quality STEM education in our schools and classroom instruction. It has been determined that many of our teachers lack the professional development necessary to integrate math and science through the use of Project Based Learning.
  • Fiscal Year: 2012-2015
  • Submitted, Approved, and Funded
  • Total Budget - $46,953.00

Math Achievement Common Core (MACC) - North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Mathematics and Science Partnerships (MSP) Program

  • Partners: Brunswick County Schools
  • Summary: Math Achievement Common Core or MACC will primarily be a high-school focused program proposed by Brunswick County Schools (BCS) to address targeted gaps or weaknesses in secondary-level mathematics (8-12).MACC will recognize the following four major goals and set forth a specific plan of action to address each one: 1) to increase teacher content knowledge in math; 2) to raise student math achievement; 3) to improve classroom instruction ; and 4) to developa sustainable partnership with the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW).
  • Fiscal Year: 2012-2015
  • Submitted, Approved, and Funded
  • Total Budget: $56,635.00

Introductory Biotechnology Workshop for High School Teachers - Summer Biotechnology for Educators, North Carolina Biotechnology Center

  • Partners: College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina Wilmington
  • Summary: This five day introductory workshop will instruct high school teachers in scientific content and engage them in laboratory exercises and classroom activities to implement biotechnology curriculum with their students.
  • Fiscal Year: 2012
  • Funded and Complete Summer, 2012
  • Total Budget: $24,998.00

Technology Loan Program (TLP) - 30th Anniversary Grant, Vernier Software and Technology

  • Partners: None
  • Summary: Despite its broad outreach, area teachers typically lack the funds and training needed to use specialized scientific equipment as part of their program. The Vernier grant, however, will help change this by providing the center with the equipment needed for ongoing teacher professional development, technology programs for K-12 students and a Technology Loan Program for K-16 educators.
  • Fiscal Year: 2012
  • Funded and Complete Spring, 2012
  • Total Budget: $10,000.00

UNCW's Center for Teaching Excellence, Summer Pedagogy Development Stipends- Using Innovative Technology Platforms to Support Experiential Pedagogical Approaches to Science Teacher Education

  • Partner: Carolina Beach State Park
  • Summary: This proposal describes the pedagogy development and improvement for the methodologies utilized within the new course: Island Ecology for Educators. This class is taught by Dr. Dennis Kubasko and Dr. Amy R. Taylor from the Watson School of Education.Funding awarded through the Summer Pedagogy Development Stipends from the Center for Teaching Excellence will continue improvements for an innovative summer course offered to education and environmental studies undergraduate and graduate students.
  • Fiscal Year: 2012
  • Funded and Complete, summer 2012
  • Total Budget: $3,000.00