Equity

Xaviera receives $100 to put towards school supplies every year but, as we know, this isn’t always enough to create impactful STEM experiences. While thankful for that money, she’s also explored STEM grants to further her resources. Particularly as she works to improve her STEAM lab, these new materials will be super helpful for her and her students.

Diversity efforts should be created and spread with intent in order to elevate the thoughts, talents, experiences, and opinions of all. As we try to overcome a lack of diversity in the STEM community, we’re continuing to promote its importance across industries, help others discover new points of view, and educate ourselves on causes and possible solutions.

As always, we’re excited to see how the grant will help Bonni and her colleagues realize their collective mission of making greater progress in their STEM education programs. According to her, they’ve spent many years talking about how to evolve their STEM offerings and now find themselves in the right position to truly make it happen for their students.

Whether it’s classroom teachers or challenges students themselves are facing, it’s a different environment when it comes to STEM instruction. Since the value of of these classes lies in their hands-on nature, it’s been quite a physical and mental adjustment trying to provide students with the experiences they need.

Eduporium, a STEM education reseller and start-up in Newton, MA, has received capital from The Boston Foundation. Since applying for the funding about 18 months ago, the final pieces have been put in place to provide the company with additional capital after working with two advisers for a year-long period as part of the Business Equity Initiative.

According to the broad acceptance of how learning loss is defined, a large percentage of students will be affected. In order to begin truly addressing this gap, however, teachers might be better off starting with SEL to allow students the chance to adjust and process emotions. From there, they can get in better position to address academics.

Education in 21st century schools, especially when educational technology plays a role, is very much aligned with progress, growth, and the scaling of programs. Now that the summer is here, it seems appropriate to talk about some of the programs that students take part in outside of their structured school activities, including various afterschool programs and fun clubs.

It’s been a long 15 months since the pandemic upended the education world. Aside from necessitating emergency instruction and compelling parents to worry about their child’s intellectual and social development, another key factor has emerged. We knew there was a digital divide among our students, but may not have known how bad it really was.

Equity in remote learning involves more than just connectivity—though that is the main component. Disparities in reliable Internet access have resulted in varying levels of remote learning quality. On the other hand, keeping students safe (plus other needs) in a virtual world also involve equity considerations.

Many of the insights we’ve gained about education amid the pandemic are lessons most of us wouldn’t have thought we would need to learn but they have become very valuable. Now, educational leaders are dealing with the prospect of carrying over these insights as they create meaningful student experiences while also trying to apply new knowledge going forward.