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<span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0c64c0;font-weight:700">Are you interested in earning a subsidized master’s degree?</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192); font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: 700;"> Are you interested in $10,000 a year to build onto your skillset for serving under-resourced students?</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400"> We would like to gauge your
interest in the Robert Noyce Master Teacher Fellowship program. If this opportunity is attractive to enough of you, we will proceed with writing a grant proposal to NSF. Here are the details:</span><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400"> </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;"> Requirements to RECEIVE a Master Teacher Fellowship: </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The recipient must possess a master’s degree in Education/STEM or must have completed the first year of a master’s degree in Education/STEM. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The recipient must be certified and currently teaching a STEM subject in a public school. The school, or district, must be designated as high needs</span><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:italic">.
(See the definition of “high needs” at the end of this communication.)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#0c64c0;font-weight:700">Requirements UPON BECOMING a Master Teacher Fellow: </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The recipient must serve as a full time STEM teacher in a high needs district for a total of five years. Service must be completed within seven years of becoming a Master Teaching Fellow.
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:italic">(See the following definition of a “high needs district.” )</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#0c64c0">The recipient must take on a leadership role within the school.
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#0c64c0">(</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#0c64c0;font-style:italic">Leadership role examples: Mentoring, participating in curriculum development,
assisting in the planning and implementation of professional development experiences, or participating in pre-service teacher education).
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<span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#0c64c0;font-weight:700">Recipient benefits: </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Tuition is provided for the final year of the master’s degree. (The degree must be completed within the first year of the Fellowship.) </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">An annual salary supplement of $10,000 per year, for each year of participation. The supplement will be conferred for four years if the recipient received tuition for their final year
of study; it will be conferred for five years if the recipient already possessed a master’s degree prior to receiving the award. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#0c64c0;font-weight:700">Obligation</span><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400">:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">If the requirements of the fellowship are not met, received funds must be repaid. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#0c64c0;font-weight:700">Definition of “high needs district”:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400"> If your school is not high needs, you may still be able to qualify for the Master Teacher Fellowship! Are you in a</span><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0c64c0;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none"> district</span><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400"> that
has at least one school that meets at least one qualification from each of the following lists?
</span><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400;font-style:italic">Note: It’s OK to move to a new school/district as long as it too meets this definition of “high needs”.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400">Criteria set 1 -</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400">Twenty percent, or more, of the children served are from low-income families.</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400">The school is eligible for funding under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program.</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400">The school is eligible for funding under the Rural and Low-Income School Program</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400"> Criteria set 2 -</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400">There is a high percentage of teachers not teaching in the academic subject areas, or grade level, in which they were trained/certified.</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400">There is a high teacher turnover rate or a high percentage of teachers with emergency, provisional, or temporary certification/licensure.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#0c64c0;font-weight:700"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); font-weight: 700;"> - the FSU-Teach team</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); font-weight: 700;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#0c64c0;font-weight:400">Please email Logan Chalfant (lchalfant@fsu.edu) if you are interested in this opportunity.</span></p>
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