Partnership for Transition to College Readiness Grant

The purpose of the grant is to support partnerships between high schools and local higher education entities and to support innovation in 12th grade preparation promoting successful transition to college mathematics.

The grant focuses on creating and motivating engaging pathways of success for high school senior students that are intending to attend a higher education institution but who have presently been deemed, by local specific definitional benchmarks as "not YET ready for college gateway mathematics courses." A key element of this grant must be a forward-looking perspective designed to help students achieve their goals of being credit-bearing college math ready before attending their first semester, rather than a program that incorporates a backward glance that seeks only to "repair the potholes they have already experienced in previous years.” Specifically, the grant centers on eliminating a “remedial approach” to prepare for transition from high school to college and focuses on preparing students for what is to come. The grant is not to be used to promote transition of students who are in an advanced placement situation or who are already identified as in a position of college readiness in their mathematics. Eligible participating students are those entering their high school senior year and/or rising college freshmen.

Eligibility

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• Eligible Applicants
  • The application team must consist of at least one high school mathematics teacher and at least one higher education faculty member. Higher education members may be from mathematics, mathematics education, education programs or a combination and must teach/supervise in the program(s).
  • Teams may receive no more than one award administered by the MET. Teams are encouraged to identify and seek additional funding sources.
• Organizational Award
  • For the purposes of MET grants, an organization is defined to be a school, school district, university, or non-profit mathematics education organization.
  • The primary applicant MAY indicate an organization to administer the finances of the grant when applying for the grant.
  • If the primary applicant chooses to administer the finances of the grant, they are responsible for reporting this award to the IRS on their personal tax return.

_You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member. The applicant must be a current (on the day of the application) Essential or Premium member of NCTM._

Ineligibility

• No indirect costs are permitted.