Stories from the Field

Stories from the Field features videos, photographic essays and brief descriptions of unique activities/experiences currently taking place in school-university and PDS partnerships. For submission information, please CLICK HERE or contact the SFTF Co-Editors Geraldine Hill at gnhill99@gmail.com and Barbara Terracciano at bterracciano@portchesterschools.org.

STEMPower: Recruiting STEM Teachers Through Near-Peer Mentoring

STEMPower: Recruiting STEM Teachers Through Near-Peer Mentoring

Around the country school districts are facing shortages of math and science teachers (Sutcher, Darling-Hammond, & Carver-Thomas, 2017). In the Norfolk Public Schools-Old Dominion University partnership, we decided to utilize the assets that existed in our own schools and university to address the shortage in our region. This effort is called STEMPower.

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