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Exploring STEM Principles Through Art - “Teachers Honor Teachers”
Lancaster City Schools' art teacher Kerri Rodenbaugh exemplifies excellence in teaching through her innovative practices, including incorporating STEM principles in her classes – making STEAM a reality for the youngest students in Lancaster.
Sparking Interest in Materials Science
Week-long, hands-on lab experiences show educators how to use applied engineering techniques in their classrooms.
Writing to Learn
Teachers in Hardin-Houston schools are learning to use writing assignments to elicit deeper learning in all classes from social studies to music to mathematics to language arts.
Just to Love to Write
A group of young authors inform Evanston Elementary School in Cincinnati have published a collection of personal stories written under the direction of high school student Ann Vettikkal. Ms. Vetikkal hoped to inspire confidence in these youngsters as they learned to find their “voice.”
A Network of Passionate Educators
Erase the Space arranges exchanges between students from different backgrounds in the Columbus area. They learn from and with each other and work to find solutions to long-standing problems associated with equity within the schools.
Teaching Mindfulness Strategies to Deal with Pandemic
Youth Yoga Project trains teachers on how to use mindfulness strategies themselves and with their students to help deal with day-to-day stress, which has been heightened by the pandemic.
Creating a Robust Career-Connected Learning System
Building Bridges to Careers is working with liaisons to six Washington County Schools Districts to connect students to career-related learning and resources that fulfill objectives set forth in the county’s Portrait of a Graduate.
Is Your Request for a Project or for Materials?
If you are requesting technology or materials, they must be vehicles to help achieve your goals, not the central purpose of your grant. These two examples will help make the difference in the writing of your proposal.