NATIONAL MATH AND SCIENCE INITIATIVE INC

We’ve identified four pillars that will continue to move our mission forward by supporting educators in the service of students.

Our focus on improving outcomes for students furthest from opportunity remains the same. However, we must ensure that our core work is thriving to continue offering educators the best training to help their students succeed in rigorous STEM coursework. Strengthening our core work will also grow our relationship with existing funders and foster new ones with clear intentions. We’ll continue to offer our school partners 365 days of support and scale our work to reach more educators, particularly Black, Latinx, and Indigenous teachers, to advance equity in education.

Our experience is guiding us to deliver consistent and user-centered experiences for educators using high-quality technology solutions. We maintain our position of providing practical yet engaging teacher training and continue to strive for equitable access by expanding NMSI’s world-class content and support to all educators regardless of location or school size.

NMSI will launch coursespecific teacher supports in algebra and math and train teachers to identify barriers that may inhibit students from accessing rigorous STEM coursework, let alone success in math.

Forty-three percent of students across the country identify as Black, Latinx, American Indian, or Alaska Native. Still, only 14% of math and science teachers identify as Black, Latinx, American Indian, or Alaska Native. We
want to bolster the retention of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous educators and, in turn, inspire the next generation of diverse STEM leaders, ultimately increasing the number of people of color in the STEM fields and careers.

NMSI Next is our five-year strategic plan to grow faster, have a deeper impact and work with other solution providers to ensure all students have access to rigorous, high-quality education. We've accomplished a lot in the past 10 years, and the next five set the bar even higher to advance STEM education for all students, especially those furthest from opportunity.

We're meeting critical needs and yet we know there are additional needs. Our role as a national catalyst is to bring together national voices to collaborate and coordinate so we are rowing together and deploying resources effectively and efficiently.

Our core programs already are world class. Even so, we're committed to constant evaluation and iteration to ensure we're also finding a better way. We also feel a responsibility to connect schools that have needs outside of our expertise to solution providers who we know are doing great work.

To drive impact in strategic regions, we will marshal local resources, where needed, to support local education and where local supporters already at are work, we'll contribute our voice and resources to help ensure their success.

We can't accomplish all this without being a Strong and Sustainable Organization – and we can't do that without you.

NMSI was launched in 2007 with inaugural support from ExxonMobil, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Our programs provide a continuum of training and support for students and teachers from elementary school through college and are producing measurable student outcomes. NMSI boosts Advanced Placement® exam performance in partner schools by 10 times the national average and builds teacher capacity to advance student achievement at all levels.

The National Math and Science Initiative is able to achieve our goals by identifying ideas and programs with proven effectiveness and quantifiable results, and scale them up nationwide. We monitor results for effectiveness and require that milestones be reached every step of the way. Educators value our comprehensive, evidence-based approach because it delivers dramatic and sustainable results and fundamentally changes education cultures.

Since 2007, NMSI has moved the needle on teacher effectiveness and student achievement in a dramatic way, launching exceptional educational programs from coast to coast. In the years ahead, we aim to support more students and teachers by strategically expanding our geographic footprint and deepening our impact in the communities we serve. As we continue to work towards a future in which every student graduates from high school prepared to succeed in college and career, we will focus on three priority initiatives:
• Build capacity in STEM-intensive communities, seeing our programs in communities where at least one-fifth of local jobs require a STEM degree to bolster the pipeline of skilled students and workers needed to fuel local and national economic growth
• Expanding support for students of military families by increasing the reach of our College Readiness Program to more than 200 military-connected schools, ensuring consistent, high-quality education for thousands of students required to relocated during high school
• Leveraging partnerships to sustain positive outcomes and empower schools to build the community- and state-level investments needed to support continued academic excellence