Events Search and Views Navigation
July 2020
Learn Deep Lunch
Frustrated teaching at a social distance? Take a break and join some K-12 colleagues who are also working through the challenges of engaging students in meaningful learning from a distance. We're kicking off a new series of informal small group discussions to help you stay connected and hear how others are adapting practices for the COVID-19 era. Sessions will run every Wednesday from 11:45 am to 12:30 pm on Zoom. The sessions are free, but as we begin this experiment…
Find out more »October 2020
Collab Lab 35: Re/connect
Time to re/connect with educators and partners who what to help make great things happen for your students! The challenges of distance learning are back. How have you adapted to keep students engaged, build classroom culture, deal with the stress the pandemic places on students, families and teachers? Join us for a discussion on Zoom to share what's working for you and where you could use some help. Register Now Buy Tickets on Eventbrite var exampleCallback = function() { console.log('Order…
Find out more »STEM Education in a Time of Distance Learning
At STEM Forward's sySTEMnow conference on Thursday October 29th we'll facilitate a discussion on how to effectively engage students in STEM education under distance learning. At the conference, we'll run separate breakout groups for elementary, middle, and high school. This follow up session will give us a chance to recap what we heard on Thursday, and explore where collaborative efforts might address some of the issues raised.
Find out more »November 2020
Collab Lab 36: Experiments for Distance Learning
How might students become part of the solution for distance learning? We're working with schools on two experiments for the Covid 19 era. The first is to understand what it takes to enable student-led tech support for distance learning technology. The second is to explore how a student led effort might tap upcycled material from industry to create kits and manipulatives for hands-on engineering and math at home. For this session we'll give a quick overview of each effort and…
Find out more »December 2020
Collab Lab 37: A Lending Library for STEM Resources
Resources for hands on STEM activities can get expensive. At the same time, they may only be used for part of a semester. What would it look like if you could borrow the resources you need from a STEM Lending Library? You may already have acquired resources that often sit idle. What would make it worthwhile to loan those to colleagues? In this session our discussion will focus on what this might look like for resources to support robotics in K-12. Come share your thoughts and ideas. Let's see if we can make something happen!
Find out more »February 2021
Collab Lab 38: Building a Collaborative Learning Community for Milwaukee
What would it look like if educators and community partners could meet year-round to learn, share ideas, and inspire each other between in-person events? Our Collab Labs provide a chance for educators and community partners to connect and share ideas. We design our initiatives to provide the same opportunities. Those opportunities to connect, learn and inspire shouldn't have to rely on us calling folks together. We've been testing an on-line platform to support a collaborative learning community. This session will…
Find out more »March 2021
Collab Lab 39: Exhibit design as a point of engagement
How would you connect STEM explorations to the design of exhibits at an interpretive center? Photograph by Maria Emmerich The Friends of Devil's Lake State Park are planning a new educational/interpretive center for the park. What if we challenged students to prototype exhibits? Where do you see STEM connections? What would you want your students to experience as they think through possibilities? What would you want them to gain from the exercise? Nick Wilkes, climbing instructor and Board Member of…
Find out more »April 2021
Collab Lab 40: Learn Deep Fellows
What if you had the support of peers, community partners, and coaches to help you design and implement a real world challenge for your students? What if that experience could expose students to the work of area firms, the resources of area universities, the tools and mindset they will need to move forward in life? What if you could do this not once, but over the next few years, to build the skills, confidence, and relationships to do even more?…
Find out more »Learn Deep Fellows: Information Session
Our Fellows program kicks off this summer! Here's your chance to ask questions and learn more about the program. The Learn Deep Fellows Program is a community based approach to equip and prepare Milwaukee area teachers to provide K-12 students with real world Learning Experiences that develop the talents students need to go out into the world. The first cohort of Fellows will kick off in May, with work over the summer to envision and design projects which will run…
Find out more »May 2021
Collab Lab 41: Welcome Learn Deep Fellows!
We'll wrap up our 5th season of Collab Labs by welcoming our first cohort of Learn Deep Fellows. As a warm up to the work they'll embark upon, we'll talk through where they see interesting opportunities to engage students and ways that might be done.
Find out more »