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NEOSTEM Meetings Past and Upcoming
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING FOR LEADERS: WHY IT MATTERS
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING FOR LEADERS: WHY IT MATTERS Teaching is an incredibly stressful job. A 2013 Gallup poll found that teaching is among the most stressful jobs in the nation, second only to nursing. And that was before the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered classrooms, sent students home, and forced teachers to adopt entirely new methods …
Read moreSeptember 7, 2021
Federal Grants: Understanding the Opportunity Like most of the country, Northeast Ohio has struggled. Families across the region face economic insecurity. Students have been forced to adapt to changing classroom conditions. Businesses grapple with social distancing policies and the ever-present threat of future closures. And, as the Biden Administration has recognized, “Black and Latino Americans, …
Read moreHow Can We Help?
NeoSTEM has an important role to play in our community. At its best, NeoSTEM is an agent of change; it is a vehicle to create and facilitate meaningful STEM learning opportunities, particularly among Black and Brown students, throughout northeast Ohio. Through its DreamSTEM, WIR’ED, and Real World of STEM initiatives, NeoSTEM has created a framework …
Read moreMAKING CONNECTIONS: LINKING CLASSROOMS AND CAREERS
Students learn best when they are actually doing things — not just reading or listening to someone talk. Students engage the most when they can solve problems and find solutions. Students relate to the real world. Guided by these simple ideas, the NeoSTEM Ecosystem has launched a discussion of how to create meaningful connections between …
Read moreNeoSTEM having a home
Those who attended the May 2, 2021, meeting of the NeoSTEM Ecosystem discussed the possibility of NeoSTEM establishing a home in a Mid-Town location. The idea of co-locating in the building that MAGNET is renovating was discussed as a possibility. The foundational principle guiding this idea of NeoSTEM having a home is that it would …
Read moreMaking STEM opportunities visible and relevant
OVERVIEW: For the last several months, the NeoSTEM Ecosystem community has been identifying what it believes to be the greatest unmet needs of students in Northeast Ohio. Our community has concluded that people – especially in minoritized communities – have little or no understanding about STEM opportunities that exist locally. Furthermore, there is a general …
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