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Melissa Moritz, vice-president of Business Development & Partnerships, hosted our first NMSI alumni virtual town hall this week with CEO Bernard Harris. Teachers, students, and consultants from across the country who have gone through NMSI programming in the past were present on the Zoom call.

Kristen Kurzawski connected with us to share how much she enjoyed attending a one-day NMSI fall training this month.

“I am using absolutely everything we discussed,” says Kurzawski, an AP English Literature teacher at Brashear High School in Pittsburgh. “No one at NMSI trainings ever wastes my time. The presenter used every minute in the right way, and all the information is fantastic."

Summer school often produces the image of students falling behind that need to catch up. Leaders at Hayward Unified School District in California’s Bay Area created another path for students last summer.

Growing up, Megan Wong regularly saw students come up to her mom, a math teacher, when they were at a grocery store or restaurant. Students told mom Susana how much she meant to them, and Wong witnessed her mom’s investment in these students.

Lisa Cumming has gone flipping crazy. At least, that’s what she calls it. For 12 years, Cumming has been teaching high school chemistry with a flipped classroom, and she sees it as a viable approach for remote and blended classrooms.

Flipped teaching emphasize active learning during class time....

HBCUs have a long-standing commitment to serving students from low-income households and first-generation college students.