Pener Selected To Lead STEM Teacher Quality (TQ)
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.
STEM equity champion Deb Holmes passes torch for teacher quality program with powerful message: Any Child Can Learn Anything.
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.
ISP Partners with MilliporeSigma to SPARK passion for STEM learning worldwide
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 […]
ISP’s Lauren Ashman Recognized with WashU’s Emerging Leader Award
Lauren Ashman, program manager and instructional specialist for the mySci Program at The Institute for School Partnership at Washington University in St. Louis (ISP), has been recognized with the Emerging Leader Award. The Emerging Leader Award recognizes a Washington University employee who positively influences and leads others at the university, in their community and in […]
ISP Showcase elevates ambitious, equitable math teaching with district partners
Photo: Dasia Franczyk, a first and second grade looping teacher at MRH Early Childhood Center, was among 21 area educators presenting STEM DI work at ISP’s Improvement Showcase held May 18, 2023 at Washington University in St. Louis. Creating environments that invite all students to engage confidently with ambitious mathematical learning is an aim best […]
mySci Unit Awarded Design Badge from Next Generation Science Standards
Using Our Resources Wisely, a fifth grade science unit developed by the Institute for School Partnership’s (ISP) mySci program has been awarded the NGSS Design Badge. The Badge is awarded to top-rated science units designed for the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Since 2017, only four other units, including mySci’s From Sun to Food, have […]
Extending an early invitation to math confidence with coaching and partnership
What things do you need to open up a restaurant? That depends on who you ask. If you’re consulting a room full of three-year-olds, you might be surprised to learn that menus, dishes, even food, are not top of mind. Dawn Pulsipher, a longtime studio teacher at Julia Goldstein Early Childhood Education Center (JG) recently […]
Coaching for equity
It’s fair to say that Bryant Baker’s relationship with math has evolved. In high school and college, he resisted advanced math classes and found himself turned off by teachers with an old school mentality. In short, he didn’t like math. Today, he’s teaching it (along with science) to sixth graders at Bernard Middle School and […]
Science learning at SLPS grows with collaboration designed to provide teachers and students with inquiry-based instruction
Outcomes of a two-year STEM learning pilot the Institute for School Partnership at Washington University in St. Louis (ISP) completed in partnership with St. Louis Public Schools and The Little Bit Foundation are encouraging. The pilot, made possible with generous support of the Bayer Fund, reached 194 SLPS educators and 2,000+ students. This unique collaboration […]
Using video as a reflective tool, Brittany Woods Middle School teachers see new goals for themselves
When approached with the opportunity to watch videos of herself guiding a classroom of eighth graders through a science lesson, Jennifer Steimel was less than enthusiastic.