{"id":9757,"date":"2018-03-14T09:21:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T14:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=9757"},"modified":"2019-09-27T09:12:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T14:12:38","slug":"pi-day-now-please-teach-math-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/pi-day-now-please-teach-math-science\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Pi Day &#8211; now please teach math or science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <strong>Pi Day<\/strong>! I love Pi day.\u00a0 It is truly an American day filled with technology, irony, sarcasm and math! And we top it all off with a great dessert.\u00a0 What&#8217;s not to like?<\/p>\n<p>But it also gives us a chance to highlight the most critical teacher shortages in the country &#8211; math and science teachers.\u00a0 We are facing an extreme shortage of math and science teachers. According to the learning policy institute:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;States across the country are currently experiencing subject area teacher shortages. In the 2015\u201316<\/em><br \/>\n<em>school year, 48 states and the District of Columbia reported shortages in special education; 42<\/em><br \/>\n<em>states plus DC did so in mathematics; and 40 states and DC reported teacher shortages in science.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do all kids know it&#8217;s Pi day &#8211; can they figure out the joke? Doubtful. We don&#8217;t have enough math and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/physics-teachers-wanted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">science teachers<\/a> that all students can figure that out. We have long term subs teaching algebra and geometry who are learning the content with their students.\u00a0 This is not good.<\/p>\n<p>But there are so many career changers out there who do know math and science and who have a passion for the subject that they can bring to the classroom.\u00a0 We need you and we need you to teach this fall.\u00a0 Please.<\/p>\n<p>So, this Pi Day, if you <strong>want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/become-a-teacher\/math\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teach math<\/a> or science<\/strong> we have just one question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>WHEN CAN YOU START!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Pi Day! I love Pi day.\u00a0 It is truly an American day filled with technology, irony, sarcasm and math! And we top it all off with a great dessert.\u00a0 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-9757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","tag-stem-teacher-shortage"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-12-18 02:35:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14162,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757\/revisions\/14162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}