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KARST Hub & L&N STEM Academy: Fostering STEM Excellence in Knoxville, TN

The KARST Hub in the TN STEM Innovation Network and its flagship school, L&N STEM Academy, aim to boost student achievement in math and science, improve teacher quality, enhance college and career readiness, and cultivate the STEM workforce. Initiatives include curriculum development, faculty training, partnership building, and innovation dissemination.

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KARST Hub & L&N STEM Academy: Fostering STEM Excellence in Knoxville, TN

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. L&N STEM Academy Initiatives • Develop faculty capacity and processes to develop innovative STEM curriculum with partners in higher education and industry. KARST

  5. 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

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