MTSU hosts NSF-funded LEADS orientation
Middle Tennessee State University faculty with the Tennessee STEM Education Center on campus recently hosted a daylong orientation for the first cohort of educators participating in the newly funded LEADS initiative to improve data science education and instruction in K-12 classrooms.
LEADS, which stands for Leaders in Education Advancing Data Science, is an initiative that aims to bridge the gap in educators and education by providing fully funded Ed.S. graduate degrees to specially selected math and science teachers from Midstate school districts in Bedford, Cannon, Warren and Williamson counties and Murfreesboro City Schools.
The National Science Foundation awarded MTSU nearly $3 million to fund the five-year program for 17 Master Teacher Fellows within the College of Education. The LEADS initiative aims not only to improve data literacy within middle-level grades, but also train teachers to become better leaders both in and out of the classroom.
