ASSET program encourages ambitious science teaching and learning
Since ASSET was transferred to WashU in 2023, the number of students engaged in the program has increased by 20 percent nationally and 241 percent regionally. WashU’s ASSET Team credits the successful scaling to impact more students to the collaborative model for curriculum development that the ISP uses across its programs. At the heart of it is authentic engagement with teachers as researchers.
WashU’s economic impact totals $9.8 billion
As WashU celebrates deep community impacts in 2025, the ISP’s ongoing collaboration with St. Louis area educators is noteworthy. The Math314 program is boosting math instruction and student achievement across the region.
Research-practice partnerships address education challenges in St. Louis region
What’s the most effective way to understand what learners need to thrive? WashU researchers see the value of collaborating with others by forming research-practice partnerships (RPPs).
Teachers: Experts, Researchers, Leaders
As a new teacher, Allen Samples can’t stop thinking about doors that are wide open. His first year of classroom teaching in the Riverview Gardens School District provided plenty more open doors for him and his middle school students.
Teachers join leading researchers in WashU labs, creating lessons that will be available nationwide
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 […]
Just like kids in a classroom, mySci teachers experience hands-on science learning
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 […]
AT&T and WashU’s ISP launch program to boost digital literacy for St. Louis-area teachers
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.
Elevating Teachers as Leaders, Researchers on National Stage
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.
Research-practice partnership leaders nationwide to gather at WashU for NNERPP annual forum
Washington University’s Institute for School Partnership (ISP) will join the National Network for Education Research-Practice Partnerships (NNERPP) in welcoming university researchers, state education agency and district research leaders, teachers and other educators from across the country for the 2025 NNERPP Annual Forum set for July 23-25, on WashU’s Campus in St. Louis, Missouri.
Thirteen teachers selected to participate as 2025 Summer Teacher Researchers at WashU
Thirteen teachers from across the St. Louis region have been selected to work with WashU faculty members for the 2025 Summer Teacher Researcher Program.