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Posted May 20, 2019
MIAMI, May 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Miami EdTech, an education technology non-profit working to create a world where innovative technologies redefine education, today announced that it has been awarded a $125,000 grant from Microsoft in support of its new "EdXpert, powered by Microsoft" program.
In partnership with Florida International University's School of Computing & Information Sciences, EdXpert, focuses on Title I schools and those scoring low in Teacher Professional Development on Miami-Dade County public school's STEAM & STEM School Designation Reporting System.
"This is a great opportunity for STEM teachers to learn how to integrate entrepreneurial and computational principles into their lesson plans, and possibly in a next grant for pre-service teachers, too," says Mario Eraso, Ph.D., STEM Outreach / Internships Coordinator, School of Computing and Information Services, Florida International University.
A true "train-the-trainer" professional development program, EdXpert uses state-of-the-art curriculum and training techniques to build teachers' capacity to deliver top-tier computer science and technology-enabled lessons in their classrooms.