WW Teaching Fellows come from many different backgrounds but are united by a single goal: to teach science, technology, engineering, and math (the STEM fields) to some of the nation’s highest-need students. But what makes these Fellows tick? What inspired them to pursue a career in the classroom? In this WW Perspectives series, we hear […]
Leading up to #GivingTuesday on December 1, WW Perspectives is featuring just some of the ways the foundation has changed the lives of its Fellows. Tamara Markey WW TF ’14, shown in the video below, remembers the names of the teachers who inspired her to chase her dreams. Now, as an engineering teacher in Indiana, […]
WW Teaching Fellows come from many different backgrounds but are united by a single goal: to teach science, technology, engineering, and math (the STEM fields) to some of the nation’s highest-need students. But what makes these Fellows tick? What inspired them to pursue a career in the classroom? In this WW Perspectives series, we hear […]
Leading up to #GivingTuesday on December 1, WW Perspectives is featuring just some of the ways the foundation has changed the lives of its Fellows. Raymond W. Smith had always had literary aspirations when a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship took him to Yale for the American Studies program in 1964. Meeting Walker Evans at Yale brought […]
Junior faculty members face a great many demands in the years before tenure: teach, publish, advise students, serve on committees, demonstrate engagement in and beyond the campus community. Even during those demanding early years, many future faculty leaders are already showing their tremendous promise, as Nancy Malkiel WF ’65 did in 1974, when she first […]
In October the Woodrow Wilson Board of Trustees met in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a look at the collaboration with MIT that underlies the new Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning. The visit featured a look at some of the MIT scholarship on teaching and learning that will help to shape the WW Academy’s approach […]
In late October, at a White House event hosted by 100Kin10, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation—one of 100Kin10’s earliest partners—deepened its commitment to the initiative’s goal of recruiting and preparing 100,000 new STEM teachers by 2021. Stephanie Hull, the Foundation’s Executive Vice President and COO, reported that WW would meet its initial goal by 2016, thanks […]
Over the past seven decades, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has developed intellectual and public leaders—generations of college faculty, as well as scholars and thinkers in fields like school administration, public policy, ethics and values, gender studies, and other areas of national need. On December 1, help continue that legacy by joining Woodrow Wilson […]
Earlier this fall, WW President Arthur Levine wrote in Inside Higher Ed that it is time for education institutions to move beyond the credit hour, or Carnegie Unit, as a way to judge competencies: [S]tates need to move consciously and systematically to the information economy’s emerging and increasingly dominant model of education, which will prevail […]
What is the difference between games like history bingo and the interactive games that WW HistoryQuest Fellowship focuses on? It’s all in how students apply what they experience, says WW Executive VP and COO Stephanie J. Hull in this episode of the WW Perspectives podcast: What students learn when they play these games is that […]
