We are excited to announce the launch of The Modern Math Teacher Circle Initiative at the UCLA Curtis Center! This new program aims to support a team of researchers, teachers, and undergraduates in creating and implementing modern lessons that show students how the math they are learning is used by researchers at UCLA to solve real problems.

How You Can Get Involved:
 
 By contributing to our campaign, you’ll directly impact teachers, students, and classrooms first in Los Angeles, and then across the country. Your donation will help fund three phases of work:

• Creation: Using a Japanese Collaborative Lesson Research protocol, teams of UCLA graduate students, Curtis Center mathematics education specialists, and local teachers design lessons that translate contexts and elements of current research activity for high school students.
• Piloting: Teacher-authors pilot the lessons in their own classrooms, with the authoring team in attendance.
• Dissemination: In Saturday meetings of a “Modern Math Teacher Circle”, the authoring teams train local teachers and UCLA Math for Teaching undergraduates to implement the lessons in classrooms across the city.

Imagine a world in which high school students could tell you how real people use the mathematics they are learning in school to solve real societal problems. Donate today to help us realize this vision.
 
 https://crowdfunding.ucla.edu/amb/modernmath2025

Thank you for joining us in providing more students with a world-class mathematics education.

Warmly,

Heather Dallas 

Executive Director

The Curtis Center