Projects
Current Projects
African American Male Achievement Program (AAMAP)
The objective of the African American Male Achievement Program is to increase the achievement of African American males. AAMAP is a four-prong program focused on empowering young, black males. The program includes individual mentoring (between African American males), group mentoring sessions, teacher professional development, and parent workshops. The program began in September 2007 with Seabrook Elementary School in Prince George's County.
College Access Project (CAP)
The College Access Project aims to help students make the connection between middle school academics, rigorous high school courses, postsecondary education, and career choices. Students in the program participate in workshops that provide information about college. At the end of the workshops, students research various colleges and universities and develop a student-run college fair to be held at their school. In addition, CAP often involves college tours for middle school students as well as a summer enrichment activity at the University of Maryland, where students have a chance to further explore career interests and learn about college-going life.
Culturally Relevant Teaching and Learning
The Institute has established graduate-level courses aimed at exposing and providing culturally relevant strategies to teachers. While the courses are relevant to any teacher, the focus is on providing culturally relevant strategies to mathematics teachers. The Institute has won a couple of College Prep Intervention Program (CPIP) grants from the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) to provide culturally relevant teaching to mathematics teachers in Prince George's County Public Schools. The Institute has also won an Improving Teacher Quality Grant (ITQ) from MHEC to provide two courses on culturally relevant teaching and mathematics to paraeducators in Prince George's County and Montgomery County. If you are a paraeducator and are interested in learning more about these courses click here for more information.
Previous Projects
Latino Parent Empowerment Program
The Latino Parent Empowerment Program aims to empower Latino parents by working with schools to provide a parent liaison who will make connections between the school and parents, as well as provide workshops to parents about the American educational system. The program also purports to provide professional development to teachers of participating schools and to create greater cultural understanding and awareness between teachers and the Latino students' home culture.
Alpha Scholars Program
The Alpha Scholars Program is part of the K-16 Partnership Development Center (K-16 PDC). The vast majority of K-16 PDC implemented programs were funded by MIMAUE. The program helps junior and senior high school students with the college application process. Educational Talent Search (ETS) at the University of Maryland is helping to coordinate this program. The program is at Bladensburg High School and Central High School (in Prince George's County) and two high schools in Anne Arundel County.
Team Success™ 
Team Success™ is an academic achievement recognition program with the vision of closing the achievement gap. Since 2006, the Institute secured the services of Fred Spence, founder of Team Success™ to provide consulting services that guide and engage the entire student body, staff, and parents to celebrate and encourage students to acquire GPAs of 3.0. Team Success™ was implemented in Central High School in PGCPS.
The Bladensburg Project
The Bladensburg Project was a partnership with Prince George's County Schools that sought to build school district reform capacity as an alternative to state or private school takeover. This program was one of the first K-16 PDC projects. The project focused on providing support and working with interconnected schools in the County, such as Bladensburg High School, William Wirt Middle School, and Rogers Heights Elementary School.
9th Grade Academy
The K-16 PDC worked with Central High School freshmen to provide support during their first year in high school. The mission was threefold: 1) to give students extra help to improve academically and proceed on to postsecondary education; 2) to engage and involve parents in their children's academic success; and 3) to remind parents and the community that the whole community must participate in the raising of a child.
English Initiative
Ongoing professional development focused on the English Curriculum Frameworks and Interactive Reading Materials to Central High School English teachers. A mentoring structure was created with an on-site "master teacher" and former teacher coordinator as the mentor who worked with seven new English teachers.
Spanish Classes for Educators
This course was designed for high school teachers and administrators who work at schools with a steady increase of Spanish-speaking students. This course helps to improve communication between teachers and administrators and students and their families.
The Center for Research on Latino Educational Success (CRLES)
As a center within MIMAUE, CRLES conducted several research and service projects funded by MIMAUE. The Center also provided professional development activities for K-12 and higher education institutions on promoting Latino student success.
The Teachers Integrating Mathematics and Engineering (TIME) Project
The TIME Project, funded by General Electric, worked with middle and high school teachers. Summer engineering institutes were held for educators, where they learned how mathematics and science concepts relate to the field of engineering. The educators took back engineering modules to their classrooms so they had an opportunity to integrate the lessons and laboratories into mathematics and science curricula during the school year. Dr. Richard McCuen, professor of civil engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, led the institutes every summer. The program worked with teachers from Prince George's County Public Schools.
