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When teachers have opportunities to actively participate in and “try on” ambitious science teaching strategies, they have more confidence and feel more prepared to engage their students in meaningful, three-dimensional science learning.

Eight teachers from schools across the St. Louis region have been selected to work with Washington University faculty members for the Summer 2024 Teacher Researcher Partnership Program.

Longtime biology teacher Jessica Rowe has always believed this, and she’s thrilled to be able to start biology classes for freshmen and sophomores at Francis Howell Central High School with an experience that is all about doing.

More than 60 high school students representing 32 schools conducted experiments, explored careers in neuroscience and tested their knowledge of the human brain and the nervous system at the 14th annual St. Louis Area Brain Bee March 2 at Washington University in St. Louis.

Teaching science in a way that includes and engages all learners can be challenging for educators, but a new framework developed by the ISP provides criteria for equitable lesson development in elementary science.

The Institute for School Partnership at WashU (ISP) is pleased to welcome Pallavi Chhabra as a postdoctoral researcher for the Fall 2023 semester. A postdoctoral research associate with the Education Department at Washington University, Dr. Chhabra is among the first researchers to participate in The Saint Louis Translational Fellowship in Education, a joint postdoctoral program […]

Roller coasters are fun, but for safety’s sake, they must be designed, built and maintained by mechanical engineers. It’s a STEM career path that Adrianna Koty has enjoyed discussing recently with the fifth graders in her class at Thorpe Gordon STEM Academy in Jefferson City, Missouri. “Giving students real-world problems to solve and think about […]

V. Barbara Pener has been selected to serve as program director for STEM Teacher Quality (TQ), an immersive year-long STEM professional learning experience that has equipped 1,071+ and impacted 35,000+ students throughout the Greater St. Louis region since 2011. Read more about Pener’s leadership of STEM TQ’s eleventh cohort.

Deb Holmes has led STEMpact’s STEM Teacher Quality program since its inception, encouraging over 1,070 local educators to see STEM in a whole new light.

Jacky Bransome is neither a scientist nor a teacher. But she happens to know that fireflies aren’t the best way to explain chemiluminescence to students living in her part of the world. Turns out that fireflies aren’t a thing in Gillingham, UK. It’s one of many fun facts she’s picked up over the years through […]