Edwige Kenmegne began working with the project in January 2011, and completed her MBA and MSA degrees at UMass-Boston. As of October 2012, Edwige serves as Finance & Accounting Associate full-time with the project. This summer she led an overhaul of the project’s Financial Policies and Procedu[...]
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November 28th, 2012 - 8:23 pm § in 2013 - Winter
Kenmegne’s expanded role strengthens the AP’s operational team
November 28th, 2012 - 8:25 pm § in 2013 - Winter
The Algebra Project is back in Miami!
In July 2012, 40 incoming 9th grade students and 4 teachers from Miami Northwestern Senior High in Liberty City participated in a 4-week Algebra Project Summer Institute at Florida International University (FIU) to receive instruction in mathematics, language arts, and learn about the Young People[...]
December 23rd, 2011 - 10:04 am § in 2012 - Winter
OSU-Mansfield and Mansfield OH City Schools convene planning meeting
On Thursday, November 10th, Dr. Lee McEwan of the Ohio State University-Mansfield Campus’ mathematics department convened a planning meeting with the leadership of Mansfield City Schools―Superintendent Dan Freund, Director of State & Federal Programs Betsy Alexander, Mansfield Senior High Sc[...]
November 28th, 2012 - 8:26 pm § in 2013 - Winter
Mansfield OH Seniors use OSUM English course to reflect on math literacy
The Mansfield, Ohio, Algebra Project Cohort of high school seniors will participate in a semester-long writing course offered at The Ohio State University Mansfield Campus in spring 2013. The students and instructor Cheryl Logan will collaboratively develop the content for this course, which is to i[...]
December 23rd, 2011 - 9:58 am § in 2012 - Winter
Making Teaching & Learning Visible: UM Secondary Math Lab with AP
The University of Michigan School of Education hosted its second annual Secondary Mathematics Laboratory (SML) from August 8-19, 2011 At the heart of the SML is a special mathematics class for entering ninth-graders taught by Bob Moses―civil rights leader, Algebra Project founder & president, [...]
November 28th, 2012 - 8:26 pm § in 2013 - Winter
Augustus Hawkins High School in Los Angeles leverages Algebra Project
Last year, school Administrators Andre Hargunani and Tony Terry and a team of teachers successfully petitioned the Los Angeles Unified School District to run the reopened Augustus Hawkins High School in South Los Angeles. About 500 students at Augustus Hawkins High are using Algebra Project curricul[...]
December 23rd, 2011 - 9:59 am § in 2012 - Winter
Milwaukee AP veterans of 1990s leverage project bonds
Lilly Simmons and Paulette Bangura to drive the Milwaukee Algebra Project which served students in school and after school since the 1990s. This fall, Bangura teamed up with Simmons to organize and pilot a Math Literacy Leadership initiative as part of Bangura’s African Centered Global Education[...]
November 28th, 2012 - 8:27 pm § in 2013 - Winter
Nashville’s Napier Elementary site of new collaboration with the ETS
Educational Testing Service and Napier Elementary School in Nashville, TN, are partnering with the Algebra Project and the Young People’s Project to offer an innovative strategy supporting elementary students’ acquisition of number facts. The AP has provided professional development to teachers [...]
December 23rd, 2011 - 9:59 am § in 2012 - Winter
AP teacher Kate Belin receives Sloan award for excellent teaching in NYC
Kate Belin, mathematics teacher at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School (FLHFHS) in the South Bronx, NY, was honored with a Sloan Award for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics in a ceremony held by the Fund for the City of NY on November 16th, 2011. Kate has taught Algebra Project Geometry material[...]
November 28th, 2012 - 8:27 pm § in 2013 - Winter
Algebra Project joins “Teachers as Professionals” at Park City Math Institute
This July, Algebra Project teachers Amy Stoyko, Marian Currell and Monica Tienda and Naama Lewis of the Young People’s Project (YPP), traveled to Utah to participate in the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences ad hoc Committee on Teachers as Professionals, at the annual Park City Math Ins[...]