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
Resourcing the Under-resourced
The problem, resourcing the under-resourced, is deceptively challenging. We sent invitations for appointments to the Teacher Free-Store to over 2,000 local educators in the last 2 weeks. Of the respondents, 92% have been from schools with an “A” grade on their SPS score. “A” schools make up less than 10% of all Orleans Parish public schools. Do the teachers at C, D, and F schools just not need free supplies? We know empirically this is not the case, so are forced to ask, what makes those teachers less likely to take advantage of a resource?
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Lending Library in Gentilly puts Science Equipment in Teachers’ Hands
The New Orleans Advocate, 08/09/2019, by Celeste Turner, photo by Chris Granger - Much the same way that a card-carrying member can walk into a public library and come out with a book, teachers can walk into the STEM Library Lab in Gentilly and borrow everything from...
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STEM Library Lab-Young Bloods
St. Charles Magazine, 01/31/2020, by Lindsay Mack, Photos by Cheryl Gerber While working as a science teacher in New Orleans, Todd Wackerman faced a common dilemma: lab materials are often outside the school’s budget. To help other educators facing a similar issue,...
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