MCI Foundation is the founder and an active contributor to the MarcoPolo partnership, providing staff, technical support and funding since 1997.

MCI Foundation is the philanthropic arm of MCI, the leading global communications company. The MCI Foundation focuses on national K-12 education and technology programs that address critical needs of educators, students and parents in an effort to improve educational opportunities and help all students achieve their potential. Through long-term strategic partnerships and measurable goals that reflect the depth of the educational issues being addressed, the Foundation strives to have a substantial impact on education and to set the national benchmark for corporate philanthropy in this area.

The mission of the MarcoPolo program is to create premier, standards-based Internet Content and provide the requisite professional development to every teacher in the United States, and to maintain the program in a way that allows it to scale throughout the United States and be sustainable over time, so it may enrich teaching and dramatically affect student achievement for generations to come.

The MarcoPolo Consortium also includes a state network to facilitate state-based professional development and alignment of MarcoPolo lessons to state curriculum standards. MarcoPolo New York is an active participant in this network. Its goals are to communicate information about MarcoPolo, arrange trainings, track quality and progress against goals and align MarcoPolo content with New York State Learning Standards. To date, over 6,800 NYS teachers have been trained in the use of the MarcoPolo resources and over 1,500 MP lessons have been aligned to New York State Learning Standards.

To learn more about what MarcoPolo NY is doing, please click on the quick link to the right.

Contact us

Phone: (631) 348 - 3317

FAX: (631) 348 - 3399

State Rollout Leader and Administrator
Stan Silverman
New York Institute of Technology
InterCounty Teacher Resource Center

State Web and Alignment Coordinator
Karen Mack
New York Institute of Technology

State Training Coordinators

Bill Maitland (NYC and Long Island)

David Parzych (all other regions)