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 us to address a new need in your classroom. We will help find someone with the expertise that is right for you.
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.
Contact us to request a new event to meet your specific needs.
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.
COVID-19 Resource Guide
Professional Development Opportunities
Maker Spaces
Extracurricular Student Activities
STEM Community Organizations
Classroom Management
Lab Management
Microgrants
STEM Library Lab News
New Orleans Teacher Free-Store adjusts in pandemic to continue to provide for teachers in need
It is a place that gives teachers critical supplies that they would maybe have to purchase themselves. Each year teachers spend hundreds of dollars of their own money providing items for their classrooms. During the coronavirus pandemic, STEM Library Lab had to adapt...
Teaching Teachers to Fish
I am no longer surprised when an elementary teacher tells me that their school has decided to use science block for community building. Nor am I surprised when a high school teacher announces they want their students to finally do an experiment this quarter. And I am...
My Big Project- Science Biographies Collection
Today, a plan 7 years in the making comes to fruition. In 2013, I read a statistic that said the majority of students graduate high school having never completed a nonfiction text. When I searched this morning it on google, I came up dry but did find these scary stats...