When I worked at a children’s science center, my favorite time of the year was summer camp season. We ran seven weeks of summer camps every year for kids in first through eighth grade, with the goal of engaging students and igniting passions for STEM. One of my favorite camps was called STEM Through Stories. STEM Through Stories was inspired by the Tufts University project Novel Engineering,...
In today’s educational landscape, there’s a strong emphasis placed on developing a student-centered curriculum. However, teacher training programs often overlook how to design student-centered materials, such as slides, assignments, and rubrics. As a result, many educators (understandably) rely on traditional methods they were exposed to while coming through the education...
Leadership teams wanting to bring about any kind of change in schools right now may be (understandably) met with resistance from the educators in their school community. Any kind of change—continuous improvement, strategic implementation of new initiatives, new or updated curriculum, shifts in the makeup of the student body, new schools or attendance boundary changes, and so much...
Often, media specialists find themselves as solitary figures in our schools, but to effectively serve all our students, we must be master connectors, not only throughout our community but also within our building, through collaborative partnerships with teachers. Collaboration also plays a pivotal role in advocating for our programs, strengthening their visibility and value within...