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Interactive STEM Wins Grant to Expand Collaborative Work in Maine
The Interactive STEM team at EDC has been awarded a grant from the Maine Department of Education for the Mathematics and Science Partnerships (MSP) program to continue, sustain, and expand its work begun in Auburn, Maine to improve student learning of mathematics in the early grades across the state. Project lead Dr. Pam Buffington For …
New STEM Journal Publishes Article from Interactive STEM Team Members
Interactive STEM team members Josephine Louie, Pam Buffington, and Jennifer Stiles were recently published in Connected Science Learning, an online journal from the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) focused on STEM experiences that connect in- and out-of-school settings. Read “A Screencasting Strategy to Support STEM Learning in the …
Developing a Productive Struggle Mindset
Students experience productive struggle when they persist in trying to make sense of a difficult problem and develop new strategies for solving it. This perseverance is essential for developing mathematical reasoning. For struggle to be productive, students must have a classroom environment where they feel safe and supported in experimenting with different problem-solving strategies. Creating …
Maine Grade 2 Teacher Flourishing in Research + Practice Context
Contributed by Patricia Ann Maislen, Auburn School Department “Reflecting with colleagues at monthly meetings generates insights to help transform my students into confident mathematical risk-takers and problem-solvers.” This is my second year working with the Interactive STEM team at EDC as a member of the Research + Collaboratory. As a second-grade teacher, the collaboration has …
R+P in the Classroom: One Teacher’s Journey with Research and Practice
In Auburn, Maine, teachers, administrators, and researchers are exploring together the best ways to use interactive mobile technology for early-grades mathematics learning. In our first observations in Auburn classrooms, the Interactive STEM team at EDC saw apps being used one on one or between students but no tracking about what apps were being used and how. …
R+P Voices: Maine Math Coach and Collaboratory Fellow
Contributed by Lisa Coburn, Auburn School Department “Ongoing co-investigative approach resets an elementary teacher’s expectations about professional development and who is an ‘expert.’” In the spring of 2014, my administrator at the time told me she had signed me up for a meeting at the district office and that it had something to …
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Interactive STEM, Auburn, Maine, Team Discuss Research-Practice Lessons at REL Boston Meeting
Left to right: EDC’s Pam Buffington, R+P Collaboratory Co–Principal Investigator, and Laura Shaw and Lisa Coburn, Washburn Elementary School, Auburn, Maine, are joined by PEER Director Michael Strambler, Yale School of Medicine; PEER Co-Director Clare Irwin, EDC; George Coleman, former Connecticut Commissioner of Education; PERC P.I. Julie Riordan, REL Northeast & Islands at EDC; and …
Maine Preservice Teachers Draw Lessons from Research-Practice Partnership in Auburn, Maine
Dr. Shannon Larsen is an Assistant Professor of Elementary Mathematics Education at University of Maine at Farmington, specializing in K-8 mathematics education, elementary mathematics coaching, and professional development for elementary mathematics teachers. She is also a higher education collaborator and education researcher for the Research + Practice Collaboratory project in Auburn, Maine. In “Maine Preservice …
Buffington Named ATMNE’s 2016 Richard H. Balomenos Lecturer
Interactive STEM principal investigator Pam Buffington has been selected as the 2016 Richard H. Balomenos Lecturer by the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England, a consortium of math-teacher associations across the six New England states. On Thursday, Oct. 29, she will present a lecture and lead a discussion on “Strategic Use of Mobile Technologies as …
