STEM AND FLOWER LEARNING

Two Standards Based Learning teachers (one secondary math and one secondary English) started submitting comments to the same twitter chats, exchanging professional emails, and attending the same conferences. While we agreed fundamentally in the principles of SBL, a professional debate ensued around the statement, "Well that won't work in MY classroom." Eventually, we developed a healthy respect for the nuances of executing SBL in STEM classes and Flower classes (ELA, world language, social studies, etc.). We began to recognize places where STEM & Flower classes were going to be, and had to be, different not because, "We have always done it that way," but because of sound pedagogical reasons... Our union of philosophy and divide in execution formed the STEM & Flower Learning Consultants. After attending and presenting at other grading conferences, we realized no one is consulting schools about how to bridge the gap between STEM and Flower classes. We are here to assuage the concern of..