Category: Classroom transformation

A modest investment in exciting Rural Eastern NC students about STEM pays big dividends

Warren and Bertie Counties are rural, sparsely populated and economically distressed.  Between the two counties approximately 80% of their public school students are eligible for free or reduced school lunches.  Even as optimistic as my partner Joe Kronner and I

The Power of Student Led Discovery

Teaching is one of the most challenging professions in the world. Since the advent of interactive technologies, the challenge of holding a student’s attention has become exponentially more difficult. Students live in a world of instant everything. Multi-tasking is the

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How to answer: Why would I ever want to know that?

Imagine being asked to do a very intense job that required you to teach students knowledge and skills while you have never been allowed to see how this intense knowledge and skills that you are being asked to teach is relevant

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Mars landing is a tribute to NASA creativity and innovation. Can NASA help bring that passion for innovation to our classrooms?

Having spent most of my career developing new products and new ventures for consumer products companies, I can appreciate the Herculean effort required to put that lander on Mars.  The effort required a team with a mastery of science, technology,

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