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Book Chapter
This chapter highlights the story of STEM. There is a moral and economic underpinning to the STEM imperative. Anything short of the cultivation of a culture for STEM is insufficient. Success requires a systemic rather than a piecemeal approach to STE...
Book Chapter
Catalyzing Professional STEM Networks: Local, Regional, and Statewide
This chapter presents the essential role of networks—intra- and inter-school and cross-stakeholder alliances—for effective, sustainable STEM education. The journalist’s principle of the Five W’s leave no stone unturned regarding networks: Wh...
Book Chapter
School—Business STEM Partnerships
A signature of the STEM awakening has become the school–business connection. What was once the sole domain of career-technical education, workplace applications of content, and on-the-job learning permeate the core disciplines of math and science i...
Book Chapter
STEM Teachers, STEM Classrooms, STEM Schools
Over the course of the early 21st century, STEM has enjoyed a bandwagon effect as the brand strengthens. In this chapter, purists and pioneers have put structures in place to establish a certain standard that upholds important labels such as STEM tea...
Book Chapter
Interwoven with classroom and teacher designations are curricula and assessment strategies. This chapter profiles some of the exemplary materials that support STEM teaching and learning, as well as the emergent process of homegrown school–business ...
Book Chapter
There are teachers of STEM subjects and then there are STEM teachers. This chapter distinguishes the two, highlighting preparatory programs and pathways that integrate the best practices illuminated up to this point into the minting of a professional...
Book Chapter
The Professional Development of STEM Teachers
This chapter examines the challenges inherent in helping content area secondary teachers and generalist elementary teachers implement a STEM learning mission. Building capacity for STEM intricately involves transforming teachers of mathematics, scien...
Book Chapter
This chapter is the result of answered invitations for experts across the STEM stakeholder spectrum to weigh in on where we go from here. Classroom practitioners, industry advocates, community catalysts, parents, elected officials, and interested bys...
Journal Article
Informal Science Learning in Online Affinity Spaces
Affinity spaces are online forums in which participants, including informal science education professionals, share with one another teaching and learning resources on a given topic. ...
By Richard Hudson
Journal Article
In the Billion Oyster Project, middle school students study and conduct field research of New York Harbor and its watershed to support restoration of native oyster habitats. The project is developing and testing a model that integrates curriculum a...
By Lauren Birney
Journal Article
The Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery strives to provide a hub for play-based science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) learning experiences in rural southeastern Ohio. The museum works to develop meaningful connections between preK–12 ...
By Jennifer Parsons, Sara L. Hartman, Jennifer Hines-Bergmeier, and Christie Truly
Virtual Conference
Picture-Perfect Science Online Course, Jan 31
A Picture-Perfect Science Online Course includes: * 10 hours of live and/or pre-recorded training using Zoom Video Conferencing * 3 two-hour sessions with the authors and 2 two-hour sessions with a trained facilitator * A digital learning pack...