K-12 Educational Access

STEM TQ through the Institute for School Partnership at WashU fosters a strong mindset for STEM integration. Teachers learn to STEMitize their curriculum; to see STEM is everywhere, and to see themselves as STEM-capable teachers and their students as STEM-capable learners. The program includes field trips to area employers where teachers experience STEM to career connections that they can pass on to students. Also included are field activities that allow teachers to experience first-hand how STEM can be threaded throughout all subjects and activities.

The Transformational Leadership Initiative from the Institute for School Partnership at WashU builds the capacity of educators to transform their organizations with new approaches to leadership and deeper learning experiences for all students and educators. Deeper learning challenges traditional classroom practices by involving students in highly engaging problems, projects, experiments, and writing tasks requiring them to work collaboratively and apply their knowledge in real-world settings. Its approach to school change recognizes that many top-down, prescriptive reform efforts to micromanage school operations and classroom activities have failed.

The mission of Math314 from the Institute for School Partnership is to improve mathematics teaching and learning in our region by designing programs that develop educators who foster equitable learning environments.

Niños Cambios Puertas is a volunteer program that provides tutoring and mentoring to Latino children in St. Louis. Niños tutors work with elementary school students with homework and reading and math exercises. Cambios tutors work with middle and high school students. While Puertas tutors function as a college preparation program helping students study for the ACT, find scholarships, and create resumes.

The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE^2) provides an opportunity for three high school students in the St. Louis area to win $500 for their essay on why the study of race and ethnicity is important and for the study of race and ethnicity can benefit students.

The Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program at WashU Medicine provides funding for pre-K through 12 grade projects to increase student involvement in STEM fields.

This eight day Summer Institute at WashU is for St. Louis metropolitan region high school teachers who either incorporate aspects of Black culture, history, and literature in their courses or teach at a school that offers or plans to offer the AP/African American Studies course. The Institute centers St. Louis as the focal point for various themes and topics related to African & African American Studies.