CMAST helps to prepare the next generation of STEM teachers who engage and inspire students to achieve and pursue STEM, to develop the skills of math and science teachers through professional development, and to retain STEM teachers by offering the training needed for a new career path, called teacher leader (TL).



Our Mission:
Inspiring and motivating students to learn and achieve in mathematics and science through teaching and learning that equally values students and rigorous mathematics and science as the core of the system, requires teachers to make connections, uses mathematical and scientific reasoning within the context of storytelling and designs an experience for the learner that is active, connected, sensory, and emotional.


Our Goals:

• CMAST provides an apprenticeship and experiential model for professional development to transform math and science education. This is accomplished through the implementation of a Math and Science Teaching (MAST) System intentionally and strategically designed around student learning of mathematics and science in grades K through twelve.

Our Values:

• Math or science as an exuberant way of life
• Passionate belief that all students can learn mathematics and science
• Aggressive and positive perseverance through challenges
• "The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics." -A Mathematician's Apology by G.H. Hardy
  
• "Science in not only a discipline of reason but, also, one of romance and passion." -Stephen Hawking

Center for Math and Science Teaching (CMAST)
To learn more about the programs directed by CMAST, click on the following:

• MAST System
• CMAST TL Certificate
• LAMS Residency