The eMSS Community

eMSS Partnerships

eMSS-Science has been developed over the past five years through the strategic partnership and collaboration of National Science Teachers Association, New Teacher Center at UCSC, and Montana State University’s Science Math Resource Center with funding from the National Science Foundation’s Math Science Partnership.

In addition to the national partnerships, the success of eMSS is a direct result of the alliance with eMSS Statewide Affiliates in 16 pilot states and the participating mentors, new teachers and scientists.

Community of Math Educators

eMSS is now building a national community of math educators focused on supporting new math teachers as they enter the profession. With funding from the Goldman Sachs Foundation, the New Teacher Center will build on the successful eMSS-Science to develop a similar network for math teachers. Our goal is to ensure that all eMSS beginning math teachers have the resources and veteran advice to provide quality instruction to their students. To develop this community each beginning teacher is assigned a mentor from the same state and discipline. The program focuses on their work together on selected content and pedagogy. They work in collaboration with other mentors and mentees and interact with mathematicians who are regularly involved in the network.

eMSS Affiliates

Affiliates are organizations or agencies that work with school districts to:

• Recruit and select beginning math teachers and mentor teachers
• Coordinate and monitor the implementation of eMSS in their respective states, and
• Maintain regular communications and participate in program research and evaluation with the national eMSS team

Once Affiliates are selected, mentee and mentor recruitment and selection can begin within the Affiliate’s region.

Mentees

Mentees are beginning (1-3 year) middle and high school science teachers in participating states and school districts. They are matched with a mentor from their state who is an experienced math teacher with experience at the same grade level.

The benefits of becoming an eMSS mentee include:

• Expert support from an individual mentor with experience in the same math subject area and grade level
• Access to a nationwide network of math teachers
• Access to content-focused online support for the classroom
• A guided curriculum that engages mentees in planning, applying practice to their classroom, and reflection with their mentor and a group of teachers working on similar goals.

If you are interested in becoming an eMSS mentee, or know a beginning math teacher who is, please go to the Mentee Application for more information. Mentee applications will be accepted from,May 4, 2007 until September 30, 2007 on a first come, first served basis. Mentees must be from a state, region or district where there is an eMSS Affiliate.

Mentors

Mentors are experienced middle or high school math teachers with strong content area knowledge and evidence of exemplary teaching. Mentors help beginning math teachers and interact with a community of science teachers and content experts. Mentors receive stipends.

If you are interested in becoming an eMSS mentor please go to the Mentor Application for more information. Applications will be accepted beginning May 4, 2007 until June 8, 2007. Mentors must be from states that have a designated eMSS Affiliate.

Facilitators

Facilitators are experienced eMSS Mentors who have demonstrated ability to be an online mentor. The facilitator role is to guide discussion areas of mentors and mentees. Selected mentors are invited to be facilitators and then participate in a three week online facilitator training in May 2007.

Content Experts

eMSS Content Experts are mathematicians from each discipline in the mentoring network. Content Experts participate regularly in eMSS discussions, answering content questions, probing for understanding and sharing information related to their research.