Planning Supports
Office Hours with Experts
Connect with a local STEM professional or subject matter expert for help with specific content questions. Review the roster of our current experts, or contact us to request a new need in your classroom. We will help find someone with the expertise that is right for you.
RSVP for an office hours session on our calendar of events below.
Communities of Practice
Too many teachers work in silos. SLL offers opportunities for you to meet and interact with your colleagues. We offer informal gatherings, as well as structured events around a specific subject, grade level, lesson plan, or equipment item.
Use our calendar of events to find an event and RSVP, or contact us to request a new event to meet your specific needs.
Calendar of Events
General Community Resources
You are busy! We want to make your life a little easier, so we compiled a listing of STEM education resources. Everything from field trips, to professional development opportunities, to small grants for your classroom.
Contact us to share an opportunity that we may have missed.
Professional Development Opportunities
Maker Spaces
Extracurricular Student Activities
STEM Community Organizations
Classroom Management
Lab Management
Microgrants
STEM Library Lab Blog
Tulane Business Model Competition names semifinalists for $25,000 top prize
Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business has named the six student teams that will face off in the qualifying round of the 2018 Tulane Business Model Competition…
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Learning to Pilot, Building a Real STEM Lending Library
If you’re wondering what happened, we changed our name. The Science Teachers’ Equipment Lending Library, while descriptive, was a bit verbose, and also factually inaccurate as we will service all STEM educators. We are now STEM Library Lab!
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Data Driven Road Tripping to STEM Education Centers
On August 12th I set out on a 3,000 mile journey across the middle of the U.S. The purpose was to visit and learn about operations, logistics, marketing, outreach, and reporting, across a variety of K-12 STEM libraries across the country.
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