Grow your science instructional practice this summer! ISP curriculum coordinator Melanie Turnage and ISP teaching facilitator Lauren Church will host mySci K-8 Grade Banded Professional Development sessions with an estimated 50 teachers from many districts in the region. The goal of these one-day sessions is for teachers to gain confidence using mySci, get an overview of […]
Public talk by science journalist Rachel Nuwer, author of Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking, will give a public talk on Thursday, June 27, at 4 PM as part of the Tyson Summer Seminar Series. Nuwer is an award-winning freelance journalist published in New York Times, Scientific American, BBC, National Geographic, and more. […]
Some 120 local educators are participating in this two week summer institute held at Washington University and various STEM locations throughout the region. The 2019 STEMpact Teacher Quality experience will be a 100-hour, yearlong learning endeavor involving teams of teachers from St. Louis regional school districts (Missouri and Illinois). The STEMpact TQ Institute will meet […]
FREE workshop on computer science fundamentals. With the help of Code.org, the Institute for School Partnership is providing a no cost, one-day workshop for elementary (K-5) school teachers in Hannibal, Missouri, that are interested in teaching computer science. In-person instruction from an experienced computer science facilitator, including an intro to computer science pedagogy, overview of the online curriculum, teacher […]
Explore and set community standards and norms around precision medicine. Featured Speakers: Vetta Sanders Thompson, Ph.D., E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Brown School; Co-Director, Center for Community Health Partnership and Research, Institute for Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis and Angela Brown, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal […]
Join our evolution education book club! Looking for good conversation? Love science and books? Our evolution education book club is just the thing for you. Open to St. Louis area K-12 educators. You’ll share strategies for teaching evolution in the classroom, recent discoveries, current research and information on local events. We’re reading Lee Berger and […]
Featured Speaker: Jenna Gorlewicz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation, & Technology, Saint Louis University Dr. Jenna Gorlewicz talks about the human-technology frontier and how engineering can be, and is being, used to design the next generation of technologies that serve people of all abilities. FREE and OPEN to ALL. Middle and […]
Join us as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing! Take part in the festivities going on here as a NASA host site connecting us to celebrations nationwide. Meet aeronautics and astronautics professionals, including Moon landing experts, and discover more about the science, technology, ingenuity and effort in getting us to the […]
ISP curriculum coordinator Melanie Turnage, ISP teaching facilitator Lauren Church and STEMpact facilitator V. Barbara Pener will host this two-day leadership institute. During the institute, you will gain skills and confidence to not only implement mySci with your students, but also to support other teachers in your building as a mySci Leader. A model lesson, […]
ISP curriculum coordinator Melanie Turnage, ISP teaching facilitator Lauren Church and STEMpact facilitator V. Barbara Pener will host this two-day leadership institute. Educators will gain skills and confidence to not only implement mySci with their students, but also to support other teachers in their building as a mySci Leader. A model lesson, a deep-dive into […]
ISP curriculum coordinators will provide professional development specific to the needs of teachers in the district for grades 1-2 and 4-5 During the institute, you will gain skills and confidence to not only implement mySci with your students, but also to support other teachers in your building as a mySci Leader. A model lesson, a […]
ISP associate director Rachel Ruggirello and ISP curriculum coordinator Jeanne Norris will host this two-day leadership institute. Educators will gain skills and confidence to not only implement mySci with their students, but also to support other teachers in their building and district as a mySci Leader by facilitating mySci PD within their district for their […]
Celebrate Missouri Botanical Garden founder Henry Shaw’s 219th birthday! Festivities take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and include a silhouette artist, stilt walker, balloon artist, and three performances by Bob Kramer’s Marionnettes (showtimes are 10:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.) and more. Take a tour of Tower Grove House, Shaw’s original country […]
Math314’s workshop on Developing Our Math Confidence! Are you hoping to start the next school year with new strategies and mindset to open up math learning to all your students? Math314 is offering this two-day workshop (July 24-25, 9am-3pm) for K-8 classroom teachers. Participants will develop confidence in math by learning instructional strategies that reduce anxiety […]
ISP associate director Rachel Ruggirello and ISP curriculum coordinator Jeanne Norris will host this two-day leadership institute. Educators will gain skills and confidence to not only implement mySci with their students, but also to support other teachers in their building and district as a mySci Leader by facilitating mySci PD within their district for their […]