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Maine Elementary School, an Interactive STEM Research + Practice Site, Receives $1.63-Million School Improvement Grant
Washburn Elementary School in Auburn, Maine, site of an Interactive STEM research–practice partnership, has been awarded just over $1.63-million in School Improvement Grant funding by the Maine Department of Education. The funds will be used to raise student proficiency in math by 30 percent and reading by 35 percent over the next five years, according …
Computer Science For All…Teachers
Contributed by June Mark, EDC “If we want all students to have high-quality computer science (CS) learning experiences, we need to make sure that all educators charged with teaching CS receive the support and resources they need to succeed.” On October 28 and 29, the Research + Practice (R+P) Collaboratory is contributing to an R+P …
Inquiry Group Meets to Develop Supports to Improve Mathematics Teaching and Learning
On November 4–5, the Interactive STEM team at EDC convened an Inquiry Group, bringing together participants with varied professional backgrounds—teachers, teacher leaders, representatives from professional organizations, university faculty, and researchers—to share knowledge, deepen understanding, and begin to develop products that will support pre-service and in-service teachers’ capacity to use interactive mobile technologies to improve mathematics …
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 …
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 …
