Strategies & Ideas
Since you are an educator, parents, children and our community at large look to you to help instruct, inspire, and empower our future work force. With STEMisphere, you are able to view a collection of resources for STEM education to help you reach this important goal. Visit STEMisphere to help enhance your science, technology, engineering and mathematics instruction.
- Base science, technology, engineering and math education in inquiry, – foster curiosity!
- Integrate curriculum – the world isn't separated in silos, neither should instruction and learning!
- Learn together – create opportunities for project based group learning activities, pertinent to everyday experiences!
- Grow awareness of careers – the jobs of today and tomorrow require strong STEM knowledge!
Carnegie STEM Excellence Pathway
The Carnegie STEM Excellence Pathway has been awarded the 2015 Roy L. Shafer Leading Edge Award for Business Practice from the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), an international organization of more than 600 science centers and museums dedicated to encouraging public engagement with science among diverse audiences. Learn more.
Pathway Workshops: Interested in school or district-wide STEM education improvement? Facilitated strategic planning workshops can support your engagement in the Carnegie STEM Excellence Pathway. By becoming a Pathway Partner, a school or district creates a common language for STEM, conducts a Self-Evaluation, identifies Priority Areas for improvement, and develops an Action Plan to implement their strategies. Carnegie Science Center offers half or full day facilitated workshops which can be held onsite at a school, or at Carnegie Science Center. Contact: Alana Kulesa [email protected] or 412.237.1679 for details and pricing.
Pathway Provider Training Institute: As an organization committed to STEM excellence, becoming a Carnegie STEM Excellence Pathway Provider will enable you to offer a research-based and field proven strategic planning process to your partner schools. Pathway Providers will receive a full set of training materials, in-depth knowledge of the online Pathway tools, modes for workshops and implementation strategies, regular online webinars to support your work, and online access to our Pathway Provider Portal. Join us for this exciting three-day training institute to work with other STEM Education colleagues from around the country dedicated to bringing strategic STEM improvements to schools in their communities. Learn more!
Educator Resources
Professional Development
Carnegie Science Center Teaching Excellence Academy – Carnegie Science Center’s Teaching Excellence Academy offers educators opportunities to sharpen their STEM pedagogy skills. Programs are offered for educators in all grade levels, with specific workshops in STEM, early learner education, and the engineering design process.
The PNC Grow Up Great Teacher’s Toolkit – Early childhood educators can use videos and instructional techniques to deepen children’s understanding of arts and science concepts, and develop their vocabulary and oral language. Teacher and family resources are available to help provide the best possible learning experiences for young children.
ASSET STEM Education – ASSET STEM Education is a national Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education improvement nonprofit. It fosters STEM fluency and college/career readiness by providing educators of students pre-K through career with highly effective professional development, hands-on educational materials and consulting services. More than 7,000 teachers and 225,000 students across the nation are impacted by ASSET's programs.
Math & Science Collaborative – The Math & Science Collaborative is comprised of representatives of school districts, non-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, and other stakeholders committed to strengthening the teaching and learning of mathematics and science.
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center – Many of the PSC Programs for Educators provide content material on-line as a resource for K-12 teachers. Many also offer workshops (with Act 48 hours) on how to effectively use the materials.
Carnegie Science Awards
Know a remarkable educator? Nominate them for a Carnegie Science Award, the region's most prestigious award for excellence in STEM education. Each year, Carnegie Science Awards recognize outstanding leaders in STEM education whose commitment to innovative and engaging teaching methods will help to inspire the next generation of scientists. Their stories showcase our region's excellence and inspire the science and technology leaders of tomorrow. Learn More.
