Inside the Triangle’s STEM Event of the Year
During SummerSTEM 2017-2018, 100 Wake County Public School System educators were embedded in 20 STEM companies to experience first-hand the workplace they are preparing students to enter. The impact is seen each year at STEMposium, the culminating event of our...A-maize-ing PBL at Weatherstone Elementary School
While participating in WakeEd’s SummerSTEM program, Mrs. Sautro and Mrs. Rhyne from Weatherstone Elementary School were embedded in leading STEM companies and received coaching in the implementation of project-based learning.
Wake BTLN Hosts Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission
Three members of the Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission (PEPSC) joined Wake BTLN members at WakeEd Partnership on March 15, 2018, to discuss their work in redesigning North Carolina’s teacher licensure and preparation programs.
SummerSTEM: Changing School Culture Through Project-Based Learning
This past July, Teresa Pierre led our SummerSTEM group to Red Hat, where we were immediately hooked by the presentation about their work process. I cannot imagine where else I would have been exposed to the Agile-based work management system called Scrum; yet, in the business world, it is practiced every day in many fields. The appeal of bringing this process to our school hit me, but was problematic to implement; changing the culture of a school is not a job for a few personnel alone.