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Customizing a district-mandated curricular resource. By Camille Morgan, Ritenour School District

BRIEF • August 2025 • by Maia Elkana & Rosalyn Langrohling-Amanor This brief addresses how instructional leaders can support teaching and learning to improve student achievement.

JOURNAL ARTICLE • April 2025 • Rachel M. Ruggirello, Abbey M. Loehr, Takeshi Terada, Jason Jabbari, Yung Chun, Maia Elkana and Alison Brockhouse
This article in Educational Forum co-authored by ISP researchers examines the effects of teacher participation in a NIC on middle mathematics learning.

Kirstin Blase, a high school chemistry teacher at Villa Duchesne, is among 13 teachers from across the St. Louis area who participated in the 2025 Summer Teacher-Researcher Program at Washington University in St. Louis. The teachers gained firsthand experience in research labs, with the opportunity to implement a lesson field test or pilot in their […]

KJ Haywood, a middle school science teacher at Lift for Life Academy, is bringing hands-on experiments back to his classroom this school year after joining peer elementary and middle school teachers from across the St. Louis area for summer institutes held at Washington University in St. Louis. The teachers participate in mySci, a signature program […]

REPORT • March 2025 • by Alison Brockhouse
STEMpact District Immersion (STEM DI) was a four-year research-practice partnership to improve mathematics education in the St. Louis region. Supported by STEMpact, STEM DI brought together educators from three local districts and education specialists from the Institute for School Partnership at Washington University in St. Louis (ISP). Over the life of this innovative collaboration, we saw important advancements in instructional practices and improved student achievement.

Educators in the St. Louis region who teach students in grades three through eight will have an opportunity to build their digital literacy by participating in the AT&T Digital Navigation Program.

Teacher Dorothy Moore has no doubts about her career choice.  In fact, she sees her role as an early childhood educator at Garrett Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District as more vital and full of possibility than ever. As Moore gears up for the start of another school year, she sees herself not only as a teacher, but also a leader. A teacher leader.

Explore science lessons about force and motion in baseball for K-8 students and adults alike at Busch Stadium.

Investigate life science and physical science concepts as you consider the specimens in the natural history room, the slides and the pinball machines in Beatnik Bob’s arcade room at City Museum.