When a student graduates high school, we expect them to be able to choose one of three paths: college, a job, or starting their own business. For many students, it seems clear that high school alone has only prepared them for a fourth option: none of the above. Today’s high school diploma just doesn’t mean what it used to.
Starting out $30,000 in debt? Don’t just blame your college Read More »
Just over a year ago, the momentum started to build around the Springfield community’s vision for their own new STEM school: The Global Impact STEM Academy
Today, that school’s a reality. What’s it like? Awesome. But don’t just take it from me.
Why Global Impact STEM Academy rocks in just three minutes Read More »
A few weeks ago, we got the chance to speak with a group of students at the Reynoldsburg eSTEM Academy. The high school juniors, Jordan Green, Stephanie Smith and Mekedia Setegne, had
Reynoldsburg student team: “I’ve given up trying to explain it to my mom.” Read More »
by Aimee Kennedy, Battelle Vice-President of Education and STEM Learning Early this year, Battelle helped support a coalition of Columbus arts organizations who came together to reach more kids through
Students explore digital photography Read More »
Successful schools are built on the local context around them. Across Ohio, each of the Ohio STEM Learning Network’s regional hubs are working help deliver more quality STEM education to local students.
To help connect students and teachers to the opportunities offered by the OSLN – Akron Hub, hub director Alison White led the development of a new website and online training center. We exchanged a few questions with her about the new resources and what these offer.
OSLN – Akron Hub reaches out with new site Read More »
Yesterday, NBC4 anchor Cabot Rea stopped by the Metro Early College High School in Columbus to talk with students about bullying. He talked with many students who said the high-achieving
School offers a haven for bullied students Read More »
The classroom is busy. Questions, answers, even laughter fill a space at Metro Early College in Columbus, Ohio. But the members of the class aren’t students, at least not most of the time. Instead, they’re teachers from some of Ohio’s most innovative schools – joined together through the Ohio STEM Learning Network, an organization founded in 2007 with help from Battelle and other supporters of STEM education.
For the last two days, these teachers have taken on the character of eighth grade math students. They’re playing this role to get some first-hand experience with a new way of teaching math, developed by the Mathematics Design Collaborative.
Prove it! How to teach student-led math Read More »
We’re proud to unveil some big news. Aimee Kennedy, the Chief Academic Officer of Metro Early College High School, will be Battelle’s new Vice President for Education and STEM Learning.
Congratulations to one of our own Read More »
Will today’s students be “digitally literate?” Only if their teachers are. That’s the central conviction of a training organized this week by the Ohio STEM Learning Network – Akron Hub.
To create digitally literate students, Akron trains teachers Read More »
The Ohio STEM Learning Network was founded, in part, to help expand off the model laid out by Metro Early College High School in Columbus. In just two weeks, that
Aug. 22: Metro welcomes middle school students Read More »
