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The KARST Hub, part of the TN STEM Innovation Network, along with the L&N STEM Academy, aims to raise student achievement in math and science, enhance teacher effectiveness, and improve student readiness for college and the workforce through rigorous academic standards. Initiatives focus on developing innovative STEM curricula and fostering collaboration among K-12, higher education, and industry partners. The core philosophy promotes STEM as a process embracing scientific reasoning, technology, engineering design, and mathematical logic, driving transformative educational experiences.
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The KARST Hub in the TN STEM Innovation Network and its Platform School,The L&N STEM Academy, Knoxville, TN Becky Ashe, Principal Stephanie Ogden, Dean
Goals • Increase student achievement in core areas, specifically math and science. • Increase the numbers of highly effective teachers in math and science classrooms. • Impact student preparedness for college or the workplace by increasing academic rigor. • Increase the number of students in the STEM workplace pipeline. KARST
L&N STEM Academy Initiatives • Establish a philosophical framework for our stand-alone magnet high school: STEM is a process not a product—a habit, not content. The essential element of high quality STEM education is not a narrow focus, but an open mind disciplined and empowered by scientific reasoning, technological expertise, engineering design, and mathematical logic. (Ogden, “What Is STEM?”) KARST
L&N STEM Academy Initiatives • Develop faculty capacity and processes to develop innovative STEM curriculum with partners in higher education and industry. KARST
KARST Hub Initiatives • Develop infrastructure for collaboration among K12, higher education, business and government partners. • Identify leverage points for school systems and other partners. • Initial design and implementation of pilot program for interdisciplinary STEM design class in partner school(s). • Initial exploration of role as conduit for disseminating research-based innovations. KARST