Partnership

Keeping pace with something as fast-moving and complex as AI is a challenge for educators, but navigating the impacts can open the window to important conversations around what’s fundamental about learning.

WashU’s Institute for School Partnership (ISP), in partnership with Edthena has been awarded one of seven grants by the Research Partnership for Professional Learning (RPPL) for the 2026-2028 funding cycle.

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.

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).

Educators from across the St. Louis region will participate in the third annual educator showcase hosted by Washington University’s Institute for School Partnership (ISP) from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, 2025 in Holmes Lounge on WashU’s Danforth Campus.

About 55 high school students from the St. Louis region and beyond tested their knowledge of the human brain and learned about neuroscience careers at the 15th annual St. Louis Area Brain Bee March 8 at Washington University in St. Louis.

When Principal Cryslynn Billingsley gathers with the teaching team at Jennings Senior High and College Prep Academy, she tells them something that is both daunting and empowering.

By middle school and high school, most students in the U.S. are familiar with the terms MRI and CT scan. Chances are, they know these diagnostic imaging tools are used when physicians need to see parts of the body in a different light.

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.

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.