29 Jan 2013
“This is where I want to be,” WW Teaching Fellow Matt Oney told the Jackson Citizen-Patriot–in a high-need high school getting the students who most need the help excited about science. “I like seeing that light bulb go off.” Four Fellows were featured in the Cit Pat’s January 28 article on the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s [...]
22 Jan 2013
Earlier this month, Indiana parent Krysten Moon saw 2009 WW Teaching Fellow David Johnson on a local TV show. Here’s what she had to say: I’m a mom on winter break in central Indiana, watching a [local] television program … with my teenagers. It is a discussion by teachers of their goals, disappointments, hopes, but [...]
07 Jan 2013
From IUPUI’s School of Science comes this great story about John and Jordan Skomp—both IUPUI grads in chemistry, and now both WW Indiana Teaching Fellows in the IUPUI master’s program preparing Fellows to teach STEM fields in high-need high schools. The Skomps married before graduating—she in December 2011, he in May 2012—and were both named Woodrow [...]
03 Jan 2013
Just before the holidays, Ashley Westra and Marsha Zimmerman–both 2009 Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows–were named as Fellows in the National Science Teachers Association’s 2012-13 New Science Teacher Academy. Ashley, a top 2009 biology grad from the University of Indianapolis (YouTube), is now an eighth-grade science teacher at Goshen Middle School in Goshen, Indiana. Marsha, [...]