If you're reading this you probably already know something about the challenges of teaching STEM during the pandemic. STEM teachers are experiencing all of the issues other teachers are - from personal technology and connectivity issues (kids and teachers), to poor attendance by some students and low engagement across the board, to figuring out how...

Back in September, Andrew Zucker & Pendred Noyce wrote an opinion piece for Education Week titled How to Make Science Class Relevant During the Pandemic.

Education researchers and policymakers are scrambling to determine the impact of pandemic school shutdowns on student learning outcomes. Projections made in summer and early fall 2020 - which relied on historical trends and prior research due to a lack of recent assessment data - predicted devastating learning losses of as much as a full year by...