The Connecticut Science Center is expanding its professional development program for teachers, it announced.
The center announced Tuesday during a visit from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy that it had received a grant from the Andrew J. and Joyce D. Mandell Family Foundation that would allow the program to triple in size. The center has named the teacher program after the Mandells. Andrew Mandell has been a trustee of the center since 2009.
The size of the grant wasn’t disclosed.
The teacher program will now help approximately 1,500 teachers per year improve their science, technology, math and engineering (STEM) curricula. The center said the program will help teachers prepare to meet new national benchmarks in science and core education.
“Working closely with educators and policy makers, the science center has created teaching methods and tools that have an important positive effect on student achievement,” Matt Fleury, president and CEO of the center, said in a statement. “Now, with the Mandells’ generous support, we will expand our capacity to meet the growing demand for high-quality teacher training.”
