Resources

STEM teacher retention is essential to student success but must mean more than just keeping teachers in the classroom. The Knowles Teacher Initiative has found that building communities of teacher leaders is a powerful strategy for sustaining early-career educators. Read the whole article in Sage Journals.

Ayanna Perry’s article Plotting your status: An equity strategy was recently published in the MTLT journal. This article invites teachers to plot their status, using a Desmos activity, to support reflection on their classroom practice.

Knowles Director, Outreach and Dissemination, Dr. Ayanna Perry joined AMTE-TX President, Carrie Cutler for AMTE-TX Tea Time, to discuss teacher leadership in practice.

This unit uses the phenomenon of the food industry and the driving question “How does nitrogen fertilizer for blueberry crops impact life on Earth?” As students interrogate the stakeholders and impacts of using food crop fertilizers, they will also learn about stoichiometry and the basics of chemical reactions.

The close study of one’s practice to generate knowledge useful to oneself and others is an important part of developing one’s teacher leadership practice. Building on Understanding Your System Through the Activity System Framework, this 40-minute data protocol is designed for use with others and supports educators in analyzing their systems and identifying leverage points for meaningful change in their contexts.