During the 2022/23 school year, the ST Math School Grants Program for Massachusetts, funded by the One8 Foundation, had its strongest year yet. The 244 schools in the program ended the year with an average ST Math completion rate of 82%! One powerful component of the program that contributed to this success was the educator-led learning over the course of the year, our Champion Programming. During in-person Champion Days and virtual Champion Hours, ST Math educators presented sessions that they created, sharing ideas and resources they developed with others. With so many schools making tremendous progress toward a goal of 80% average progress across their schools, we began to ask schools to think about how to support ALL students to achieve 80%. Studley Elementary in Attleboro Public Schools attacked this challenge with gusto, ultimately getting 86% of their students to achieve 80% or more on ST Math. Their school leaders have been tremendously focused on supporting teachers to look at individual student data and conduct coaching cycles to support their student learners to achieve these goals. Thank you to the One8 Foundation for helping us achieve this milestone and develop best practices for the teachers and students in Massachusetts and beyond! 

Thanks to generous funding from Verizon, over 40,000 students at Verizon Innovative Learning Schools received access in the 2022/23 school year to ST Math. From deep learning during professional development sessions to collaborative community events, the partnership provides teaching and learning opportunities that transform math education. One success story belongs to a group of middle school students attending Mater Academy Mountain Vista who presented their celebrations and feedback at ST Math’s “Accelerate Learning” User Conference in February 2023. The students showcased their teachers’ innovative instructional strategies, modeled best practices of virtual presentations, and proposed relevant feedback on the ST Math platform. After hearing the comments and testing the requested feature updates, MIND’s Engineering Team incorporated their idea into the program and recognized the students for their remarkable impact and creative problem solving.

Phillips 66 is a positive, powerful steward for the communities in which their employees live and work, and their concern for schools and students is evident in their support for ST Math.  Thanks to their strong focus on social impact, last year Phillips 66 shared the gift of strong math foundations with over 120 schools in 10 key states across the country, helping over 52,000 students gain the skills required for academic success and meaningful STEM careers.  To further build a robust mathematical culture at the Phillips 66-funded schools, the company supported 24 Family Math Nights in which families were invited to “play math” with their children, inspiring opportunities for parents and students come together to learn and love math. 

In the 2022/23 school year, the John Deere Foundation’s partnership with MIND reached over 34,000 students, the majority of which are underserved, in Iowa, Illinois, and Georgia. One of the districts seeing tremendous gains with the program is Waterloo Community School District, the seventh largest district in Iowa. Thanks to the Foundation's funding of ST Math in Waterloo’s 11 elementary schools, students showed significant growth in math proficiency outcomes. The district is seeing positive correlations between results on ST Math and their post assessments. In addition, their 3rd - 5th grade students experienced an increase of almost 6% on the 2023 Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress (ISASP).

Thanks to  grant funding from the Pacific Life Foundation, students at Red Hill Elementary School in Tustin Unified School District are benefiting powerfully from the power of ST Math.  MIND recently published a success story about this implementation featuring principal Teri Malpass, a former teacher that has been using ST Math for 17 years, first in her own classroom and now as an administrator. Malpass shares her enthusiasm for the program, her focus on an increase in both student confidence and achievement, and the school’s outstanding results – the equivalent of 5 years of growth in a single year.  

For more than 70 years, Ford Motor Company has been upholding students and education with a special focus on serving underrepresented communities.  Here at MIND, their grant funding is empowering children at one of the nation’s leading after school programs, Detroit’s Downtown Boxing Gym (DBG) with the benefits of ST Math.  The DBG provides a roster of both athletic and academic opportunities for under-served children, an array of wrap-around programs including not just sports, but tutoring, classroom support, and nutrition, instilling both life skills and self-confidence.  With a 100% high school graduation record, MIND is proud to be a part of the DBG curriculum and thanks Ford for their ongoing support.