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The students in my studio physics class posted a world-class normalized learning gain this semester. So why am I so unhappy with it? And what should I do about it? My studio physics class posted a normalized learning gain of … Continue reading →

Governor DeSantis’s teacher salary proposal has put Florida’s K-12 schools and the most important component of those schools – the teacher corps – at the forefront of the agenda for the 2020 session of the Legislature. But there are even … Continue reading →

Outreach to parents is a powerful and generally neglected way of improving the preparation of students for college STEM majors. At Saturday’s Orange County Public Schools Super STEM Saturday event, which was attended by hundreds of students from elementary and … Continue reading →

I will be using the power point shown here to talk with parents at this week’s Super STEM Saturday event. The slides are displayed below. You can download a pdf of the presentation – which includes a few bonus slides … Continue reading →

The Orange County Public Schools annual Super STEM Saturday event is being held this coming Saturday, December 7, at Apopka High School. I’ll be there to visit with the parents of the participants in two presentations at 11 am and … Continue reading →

This piece by Barnard College President Sian Beilock published in the Harvard Business Review in October caught my eye especially because of the last few paragraphs, which are reproduced below. But it’s worth reading the whole thing. Finally, we need … Continue reading →

What Orange County Public Schools is trying to do with its Calculus Project – give students from disadvantaged backgrounds equitable access to bachelor’s degree-level STEM careers – is really, really hard and really, really important. The article on the Calculus … Continue reading →