100Kin10 is a national network committed to solving one of our country’s most pressing challenges – giving kids a great STEM education – by adding 100,000 more, excellent STEM teachers to America’s classrooms by 2021. The three key areas of focus are:

• • Increase Supply -Recruiting future teachers in greater numbers and with stronger STEM backgrounds, and better preparing them for the classroom

  • Retaining Excellence-Transforming how STEM teachers are hired, supported, and developed, so they continue to improve and inspire more students

  • Build the Movement- Changing policy, sharing the STEM story with the wider world, and contributing funds that keep our momentum going

The future depends on today’s youth becoming tomorrow’s innovators. To make that possible, we need to tackle the underlying causes of our nation's shortage of excellent teachers, especially in science, technology, engineering, and math. 100Kin10 identified the 100 challenges to preparing and retaining great STEM teachers and created an unprecedented roadmap that points the way toward transforming STEM education in America.

The work of the 300+ 100Kin10 partners tackles Grand Challenges related to the STEM teacher shortage. These challenges are clustered into seven major themes, each with action-oriented research, bright spots, and leading organizations working on addressing them.

Our Mission

We strive to advance STEM education to ensure all students, especially those furthest from opportunity, thrive and reach their highest potential as problem solvers and lif​elong learners who pursue their passions and tackle the world's toughest challenges. We promote and provide high quality STEM education at the local, school system and national levels

• Local: Success for NMSI’s school partners starts in the classroom. We provide evidence-based resources and constantly evolving best practices for students and teachers across grade levels.

• School Systems: System-level changes are critical to sustaining classroom gains. We work with school system leaders to build mindsets and practices focused on STEM education and inclusion.

• National: We help shape federal, state and local policies that support equitable learning by elevating local voices and collaborating with partners to ensure high-qualilty STEM education.

Our work empowers communities and builds the foundation for opportunity, prosperity, equity and inclusion.

• Prosperity: Students who pursue STEM-based careers have greater earning potential and STEM skills increase success in all careers and endeavors. That leads to individual and community prosperity.

• Equity: Individual and community prosperity increase opportunity, particularly in employment, education and entrepreneurship. That supports equity through inclusive mindsets and practices.

• Inclusion: Inclusive mindsets and practices create anti-racist systems and policies that promote collaboration across race and culture. That contributes to acceptance of differences and valuing diversity as an engine of innovation.

teachHOUSTON (tH) is the University of Houston’s secondary STEM teacher preparation program and addresses the critical need for highly qualified STEM teachers in Texas and across the country. tH is a collaborative project of the University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the College of Education, and local school districts. teachHOUSTON collaborates with UTEACH partners around the country. tH provides compact and flexible degree plans that fully integrate grade 7-12 teacher certification for those obtaining a major in STEM without adding time or cost to four-year degrees. STEM teachers are prepared through early and ongoing field-experiences, and rigorous research-based instruction integrating content and pedagogical knowledge provided by faculty members that have extensive teaching experience in public schools.