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SAMPE Foundation Awards Grant to Support Summer Institute

SAMPE Foundation Awards Grant to Support Summer Institute

The SAMPE Foundation awarded STEMteachersNYC with a $5,000 grant to support the 2020 STEM Summer Institute.  The SAMPE Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE).  It promotes education and innovation in materials…

Values, Commitments, and Actions

Values, Commitments, and Actions

To the members of STEMteachersNYC, This moment of anger and pain in our national consciousness – the latest in a centuries-long history of racism and oppression against Black Americans – underscores the need for all of us to work in…

Year-end Thoughts from Fernand

Year-end Thoughts from Fernand

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Dear Fellow Teachers, As 2019 comes to a close, I want to reflect on STEMteachersNYC’s eight years of life and thank the dedicated teachers who form our backbone.  When I think back to the 25 physics teachers seeking community who founded…

New Teacher-Facilitated Working Groups!

New Teacher-Facilitated Working Groups!

Are you new to teaching or new to modeling and want more support for your teaching practice? Looking to nurture or tweak your Elementary STEM lessons or approach? Want to extend key practices learned from workshops? Come to a working…

STEMteachersNYC 2019 Summer Internship Reflections!

STEMteachersNYC 2019 Summer Internship Reflections!

Over the course of this year’s STEMteachersNYC 2019 Summer Institute, we hosted three interns from China and the US. Goals of the internship were to learn the structures and functions of teacher-led workshop approaches, the essentials of starting their own…