With continued funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Innovation Collaborative is inviting a select group of teachers interested in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math) education to participate in a pilot cohort of free, research-validated virtual STEAM teacher professional development.
The Collaborative is entering the 6th year of its multi-year national research project aimed at providing this firm research-based foundation for the STEAM movement. It is conducting studies in teacher professional development and classroom practices and already has significant findings concerning effective practices in both.
The research is led by Collaborative staff in consultation with nationally recognized education researchers in the sciences, arts, humanities, the arts/science connections, neuroscience, and creativity. It also is led by the Collaborative’s Innovation Fellows, the top teachers identified nationally in the first round of this research. The Fellows are: Kerry Buchman (CA); Ian Fogarty (Canada), Ashley Lupfer (NC), Kimberly Olson (NH), Anna Rozzi (OR), Juli Salzman (TX), Marica Shannon (SD), Kathleen Sweet (IA), and Kristin Taylor (CA).
The Innovation Collaborative is a DC-based coalition of leading national sciences, arts, and humanities institutions working together to provide a firm research-based foundation for the growing STEAM movement. For more information, visit the website.
To express your interest, please email Lucinda Presley, chair, at lpresley@innovationcollaborative.org