STEM Teacher Leadership Summit

The Academies @ RHS staff and district affiliates attended the Teacher Leadership Summit: Attracting, Retaining, and Developing a Diverse STEM Teaching Workforce in Washington, DC. The team’s purpose for attending was geared toward tackling the issues of underrepresentation in STEM education, creating plans for attracting, retaining, and developing a diverse STEM teaching workforce, and becoming catalysts for systemic change.

The members of the RHS team: (from left to right) Brett Vance, Academy Specialist; Sarah Robbins, Project Lead for STE(A)M Scholars Initiative; Michele Wilson-Dawson, Assistant Principal; Najwa Smith, Industry Development Specialist; Arthur Mitchell, Educational Consultant and Courtney Thompson, Biotechnology Teacher