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STEMteachersNYC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting a community of STEM teachers across the NYC region. Our…
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The STEM Challenge
Addressing the STEM Crisis Through Teacher-Led Professional Learning
The US economy suffers from a shortage of qualified STEM workers for manufacturing and technical jobs, and according…
Only 20% of NYC high school students have access to a physics course, and this issue is even…
U.S. students rank 31st in science achievement among top-rated countries on the PISA (Program for International Student Assessment)…
Our Impact
Leveraging the Power of Teacher-Led Professional Learning
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Energize Your STEM Teaching
Join educators from around the city and world for hands-on professional development in STEM! We organize monthly STEM workshops, and summer intensives in biology, chemistry, math, computer science, physics, and middle/elementary science!
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We encourage teachers to attend as teams! Teachers: Ask your school to pay for your ticket! Principals: Purchase a pack of tickets for your teachers!
Our Programs & Working Groups
Culturally Responsive STEM Initiative
About the Culturally Responsive STEM Initiative STEMteachersNYC is committed to ensuring our programs and efforts reflect the diverse…
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Consilience (n): "Literally a 'jumping together' of knowledge by the linking of facts and fact-based theory across disciplines... read moreElementary STEM Initiative
About The Elementary STEM Initiative brings together a diverse group of early childhood and elementary STEM teachers in the... read moreBecome a Member
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The STEM Teacher Portal
News, Announcements and Upcoming Events
Upon learning that many of their water samples may be impure, students are motivated to devise a solution to contaminated drinking water.
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To delve deeper into the unit’s driving questions, we start with the concept of pH, or “power of hydrogen.” Students review a graphic illustrating the pH scale and learn that substances can be classified as acidic, neutral, or basic.
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The Flint, Michigan water crisis drew national attention to the effects of unsafe drinking water and issues of equity and social justice. It also opened up opportunities for engaging in socio-scientific issues in the science classroom (Ewing and Sadler 2020). Students consume hundreds of gallo
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While the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic dominated the media throughout 2020, it may have been easy to forget that other tragedies were occurring in our country as well.
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The SAMPE Foundation awarded STEMteachersNYC with a $5,000 grant to support the 2020 STEM Summer Institute. The SAMPE Foundation…
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To the members of STEMteachersNYC, This moment of anger and pain in our national consciousness – the latest…
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Dear Fellow Teachers, As 2019 comes to a close, I want to reflect on STEMteachersNYC's eight years of life and...
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Do you teach physics? Would you like a flying start with using computation effectively in your teaching? Then this…
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Are you new to teaching or new to modeling and want more support for your teaching practice? Looking…
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