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 [...]
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 [...]
17 Dec 2012
Teaching Fellow Sheila Pritchett describes what it was like to have veteran teachers mentor her during her year of clinical placement. That’s what the WW Teaching Fellowship calls student teaching, but it’s student teaching on steroids–for a full year, with expert mentors all the way. Sheila, who now teaches freshman bio and biomedical enrichment classes [...]
30 Jul 2012
When you work hard to recruit outstanding new candidates to teach math and science in high-need schools, you do find some amazing people: fighter pilots, dolphin trainers, transportation engineers, and expert geneticists; brand-new grads who have tutored peers and coached kids while maintaining killer GPAs and experienced R&D scientists with stacks of publications and patents; [...]