Thank you for being part of the MTR community! Today is Giving Tuesday and there are THREE important ways you can support MTR: SIGN UP FOR THE LOOP On the first Monday of every month, MTR sends an e-newsletter with prayer requests submitted by MTR teachers. This...
MTR staff and alumni visited BEAM in New York, NY in summer 2019. Fellowship Supporting STEM Education and Developing Teachers of Color OverviewMTR is launching The Marjorie Lee Browne STEM Education Fellowship. Set to begin in Summer 2020, the fellowship is designed to inspire, encourage, and support undergraduate...
Instruction at MTR revolves around a set of "maturities," or skills, attributes, and understandings that MTR expects all of its teachers to demonstrate effectiveness in. The very first maturity, out of the nearly 60, is "Students as Image Bearers"; clearly, it is foundational to what...
Students in Ms. Paredes' classroom “Oh, pobrecita Ely, she doesn’t understand you.” Her classmates would tell me since day one. She would look up at me with her big, brown eyes and nod. “Ely has to go to the bathroom!” Her classmates would scream out loud...
Madeleine Gibson (Class of 2020) received this note from her mentor, Rory Hatchel (Class of 2014) on the first day of her lead teach in their 11th grade English classroom at Kingsbury High School. Many positive experiences have already defined my MTR experience thus far, but...
In last week’s Black History Month commentary by Michael Peterson II, the first line referenced the monumental Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1897) which created what would become known as the “separate but equal” doctrine. This ill-informed case laid the devastating foundation of...
Nearly 51 years ago, on February 4, 1968 – and just 63 days before his assassination – Dr. King delivered his famous The Drum Major Instinct sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA. (You may listen to the entire sermon here.) Excerpts from this...
In my first grade class of 17 students this year, there are 13 boys. My days are filled with the fullest range of emotions, energy, 6-year-old problems that feel larger-than-life, and ideas beyond what anyone can dream of. Young kids come with an unbridled greatness...
How do students learn? In all honesty, I couldn’t have given a decent answer to this question when I unpacked my things in Crosstown this summer if my life had depended on it. Knowing now what I wish I had known then, I am finally...
In my daily experience, there is something incredibly sweet about 7:30am; it is at this time that I receive the fortune of being greeted by 25 amazing little humans. No matter what my evening held or what their mornings might have entailed, I know that...