Popular Tag: student engagement

April 22, 2016

Earth Day is year-round in our network!

Earth Day is an annual event celebrated around the world to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now celebrated in more than 193 countries each yea…
What is project-based learning?

February 19, 2016

What is project-based learning?

It was the presence of disenchanted learners that started the Project-Based Learning (PBL) movement in the 1960s (Barrows, 1996; Neville, 2009). PBL allows students to move away from passively listeni…
2016 STEM Accelerator White Paper

January 15, 2016

2016 STEM Accelerator White Paper

Our latest white paper is a summary of two recent convenings on STEM education. The findings include a review of successful actions in STEM education, recommendations for future STEM programs and impl…

January 6, 2016

48 hours to change the world

“What have you learned from this project?” “I learned that I can change the world.” That was the exchange between a visitor to our school and a student she was questioning as he and h…

December 11, 2015

Math can be puzzling, and that’s a good thing

As an educator, I hate to admit that I loved it when my 4th grade teacher would leave us with a substitute. That would mean Logic Puzzles! I loved them. As down time, substitute plans, or the da…

November 23, 2015

A STEM success story

This is when it all pays off. All the hard work developing engaging projects and activities, the up-front time spent cultivating strong and trusting relationships with each student, the one-on-one…

November 18, 2015

Roanoke-Chowan News Herald | Show and tell

AHOSKIE – The Autumn Maker Faire took place recently at the Hertford County Early College High School (HCECHS) on the Roanoke Chowan Community College campus. Many children gathered at this f…