{"id":155,"date":"2017-05-06T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stem\/?p=155"},"modified":"2017-05-10T23:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T03:52:07","slug":"roundtable-on-k-20-stem-education-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stem\/2017\/05\/06\/roundtable-on-k-20-stem-education-bu\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundtable on K-20 STEM Education @ BU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 4, 2017, the Hariri Institute\u00a0hosted a Roundtable on K-12 STEM education at Boston University to engage 13 invited thought leaders in a discussion about what is possible to achieve collectively, leading to an actionable plan that spells out a shared vision and path forward for K-12 STEM efforts at BU. <\/p>\n<p>The guiding questions for our discussion were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who are we?  What is our K-12 STEM education portfolio?  What are our strengths?<\/li>\n<li>What are our shared goals in terms of growth, sustainability, broadening impact, diversity, as well as becoming more integrated with what is happening at BU and beyond?<\/li>\n<li>What are our own challenges as a group?  What can we do to better position ourselves to take on more active roles, have a greater voice and more impact at BU and beyond? <\/li>\n<li>What could and should Boston University do to help us build on our strengths, achieve our shared goals and overcome our shared challenges?<\/li>\n<li>What are our next steps?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is a lot of exciting work being done at Boston University and there was a shared optimism that the time is right to explore ways in which we can collectively propel BU\u2019s K-12 STEM efforts to new heights, working together to integrate varied efforts into the broader impacts mission of BU, bridge K-12 outreach and undergraduate and graduate education, and perhaps most importantly inject momentum into K-12 STEM initiatives so that efforts can sustain, scale and achieve their full potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 4, 2017, the Hariri Institute\u00a0hosted a Roundtable on K-12 STEM education at Boston University to engage 13 invited thought leaders in a discussion about what is possible to achieve collectively, leading to an actionable plan that spells out a shared vision and path forward for K-12 STEM efforts at BU. The guiding questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}