Two grants were awarded to the Arlington Schools in March. Arlington High School will purchase five class sets of electronic student response systems, and provide pedagogical training on using them. These systems allow students to respond anonymously to teacher questions. Their answers inform the teacher’s awareness of the student’s understanding and enables him/her to address misconceptions in the classroom in a timely fashion.
A STEM curriculum grant will continue the introduction of the Museum of Science’s ‘Engineering is Elementary’ curriculum to the third grade. Furthermore, this grant will support Arlington’s adoption of the new Common Core Standards in Science to be finalized and released later this year.

