Partnership

Teaming up to Tinker: Defending Play in Public Education

March 24, 2017 by jacy

Teacher facilitates morse code jewelry activity
A partnership between Lesley’s Makerspace and Cambridge’s Tobin Montessori has reconceptualized science activities that explore sound, light, and digital waves through making. A collaborative team of Tobin Montessori teachers and the Lesley STEAM Learning Lab led a hands-on re-creation of elementary science activities and discussed how making inspires playful learning at Lesley University’s 2017 Community of Scholars Day.

Kennedy Kicks off Hour Of Code Week

December 6, 2016 by jacy

Tiny dancer battery project

The Lesley STEAM Team was proud to help launch the Hour of Code Week at the Kennedy School in Somerville alongside our Kennedy partners. The week-long celebration of coding and making was marked by Somerville Mayor, Joe Curtatone, and Superintendent, Mary Skipper. View full article on The Somerville News Weekly.

Technology, Engineering and Art Come Alive in New Innovation Lab

December 18, 2015 by jacy Leave a Comment

Kennedy

Lesley STEAM collaborates to create hands-on makerspace at the Kennedy School in Somerville. View full article.

Transformative Partnership

April 28, 2014 by jacy

The Lesley University Graduate School of Education is in its third year of a close partnership with the Kennedy-Longfellow School, an elementary school in Cambridge, to explore the transformational uses of educational technology in an urban public school setting. View article at: http://www.lesley.edu/kennedy-longfellow-partnership/?terms=transformative%20partnership.