Why does the right nurse make all the difference to your care? Why does your pasta sauce not taste quite as good as your mom’s despite...
Category - Growth Mindset in STEM
Google Time for Me: Hour of Code (Dec 7-13)
Although I am an advocate for STEM and STEAM Education, I have to confess that I have zero background in coding. In fact, coding is shrouded in...
Project-based Learning and Design Thinking I by Thom Markham
Life’s a project. We do other projects within it. Along the way we learn what we need to learn in order to complete the project...
Back to School: Posts from School Leaders III by Sandy Nobles, Director of Education at Momentous Institute
STEM Night: A Dynamic Approach to Building Family Engagement Traditional open houses are great but at Momentous School, we decided that we could do...
Building Critical Thinking Skills: Is Purple the Perfect Color?
By Jamie Repasky As an elementary science teacher and mother of two young boys, I love hearing, “Guess what I just discovered?”. It often...
A Brief Conversation with Bill Burton, author of article, “Engineering Encounters”, and Lower School Science teacher at the Lamplighter...
A Conversation with Parent, Engineer, and Educator, Chris Rogers (part 3 of a series of 3 pieces) Since I have three middle school aged children, I...
Gladwell’s ten thousand hour rule, based on a study by Anders Ericsson, in his book The Outliers is frequently referenced by parents, educators and...
Juggling with STEM
Written by the mom of a 12-year old girl, who is also a homemaker and the Chief Financial Officer of the Investment Banking division of a bank in New...