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Summer Working Groups
Join us toward the end of July to re-connect over shared interests, to spend a bit of time together sharing and thinking about our plans for the coming school year – and getting to know each other! Sign up for one of…
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
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
[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…
Physics via Computation – A call to truly integrated STEM!
Do you teach physics? Would you like a flying start with using computation effectively in your teaching? Then this workshop is for you! Josh Rutberg, Greg Benedis-Grab, and I, and now also Paul Feffer and Frank Noschese, have been brewing up…
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!
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…
Impacts of Active Learning in STEM – What the data show
Add depth to authentic inquiry and make an impact with active learning in your classroom. This Summer master teachers Zhanna Glazenburg and Craig Buszka will take a deep dive into Active Learning – but what exactly is Active Learning…