May 31, 2019 | News Kenan Fellow Partners with Colleague to Develop Tools for Monitoring Student Academic Skills and Practices By Amneris Solano CHAPEL HILL — Kelly Sears, a 2014-15 Kenan Fellow, who teaches eighth-grade science at Smith Middle School in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools system collaborated...
March 6, 2019 | News, Uncategorized Kenan Fellows Voices: Annah Riedel By Amneris Solano Ever since I was 9 years old, I wanted to be a teacher. The more life I experienced only reinforced that teaching was/is the perfect...
March 1, 2019 | News ‘Not for me, for my students’ By Amneris Solano Kenan Fellows Voices: John Kurzawa As my year as a 2018-19 Kenan Fellow draws to an end, I cannot help but reflect on what I...
September 10, 2018 | News High school physics teacher’s dream PD: Visiting CERN By Amneris Solano Kenan Fellows Voices: Alexandra Boyd As a 2015-16 Kenan Fellow, I learned the importance of incorporating outside experiences in my classroom to show students why...
July 24, 2018 | News Kenan Fellows Voices: Learning Never Stops By Amneris Solano CHARLOTTE — Walking into my internship with Hyde Park Partners, Inc., I wasn’t quite sure what to expect but I knew there would be some...
July 9, 2018 | News Elementary Teachers Learn STEM and Arts Education Integration Using Whirligigs By Amneris Solano WILSON — Inspired by Vollis Simpson’s dazzling wind-powered sculptures, the Kinetic Connections Summer Institute teaches elementary school educators how best to integrate the arts with engineering,...