STEM/STEAM

Financial literacy and personal finance can be incorporated in math classes to make the learning more relevant and practical.

Elementary-age students at the Marie Philip School at The Learning Center for the Deaf near Boston are programming robots to learn the engineering design process.

Green school buildings make sustainability and environmental science real in a way that helps students understand their roles in the natural world.

Coding and STEM activities for special education students create career pathways that some learners are uniquely suited for.

Faced with a lack of school lab space and a need for more in-depth medical imaging, district leaders and science educators have been seeking alternatives to real animal dissections in class. 

Some FETC educators were treated to a day outside of the session rooms and visited Miami-Dade County Public Schools' leading programs, including MAST Academy, a maritime-focused, grades 6 through 12 school on the shores of Biscayne Bay.