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PROJECT NEXUS

PROJECT NEXUS. A Title III National Professional Development Program Funded by The Office of English Language Acquisition of the U. S. Department of Education a t $985,000 for five years for the

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PROJECT NEXUS

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  1. PROJECT NEXUS A Title III National Professional Development Program Funded by The Office of English Language Acquisition of the U. S. Department of Education at $985,000 for five years for the Bilingual/ESL Teacher Certification Programs of the Teacher Education and Administration Department at the University of North Texas May 1, 2012 to April 30, 2017

  2. Project GoalsGoal 1 Enhance the knowledge base of middle and high school in-service teachers in mathematics and science from the two surrounding local educational agencies (LEAs), Denton and Lewisville, through customized professional development for teachers to acquire the instructional skills and strategies to teach academic content and language development and acquisition to increase the academic achievement, graduation rates and entry into postsecondary education institutions for middle and high school ELLs.

  3. Goal 2 Enhance the knowledge-base of the UNT education faculty in the mathematics and science 9-12 teacher certification programs through ongoing course content analysis and advanced professional development to integrate current evidence-based research and standards-based instruction into the certification degree-granting programs for effective instruction and assessment for ELLs.

  4. Goal 3 Analyze and evaluate project data to make project improvement decisions in order to impact the knowledge and skills of project participants, and make instructional improvement decisions in order to further ELL content mastery and narrow the achievement gap.

  5. Participating Schools

  6. In-service Teachers

  7. Initial Professional Development Plan for In-service Teachers Two-Day Professional Development Workshop Agenda

  8. Additional Two-Day Professional Development Follow-up Workshop Agenda

  9. Additional Benefits for In-service Teachers ESL Supplemental Certification ESL Supplemental Certification

  10. In-Service Teachers will have the option of registering for graduate level courses related to the education of ELL Students Summer2013 to Fall 2016 14 week Spring semester courses 6 credit hours

  11. Participation of Denton ISD and Lewisville ISD Administrators

  12. Participation of Math and Science UNT Faculty Members Faculty members

  13. Participation of UNT Math and Science Pre-service Teachers Pre-service Teachers

  14. Project activities will be evaluated by GILD, an external evaluation team. Below are some of the evaluation activities.

  15. Project NEXUS Questions and Answers Rossana Boyd, Project Director, rossana.boyd@unt.edu Karthigeyan Subramaniam, Co- Principal Investigator Karthigeyan.Subramaniam@unt.edu Office Tel. 940-565-2933

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