The National Coalition of Girls' Schools

Resources for: Teachers | Parents | Students

Girls & Engineering

Why STEM for Girls/How to Make STEM Courses Successful

 

Student builds with bricks

 

National Center for Women and Information Technology: pdf's on effective practices for recruiting and retaining girls at the K-12 education level, such as: The Importance of Recruiting, Intentional Role Modeling, Why Encouragement Matters, and Classroom Practices and Pedagogy.

 

Subotnik, Simonton, Sawyer, et al: STEM "Think" pieces from the Center for Education of The National Academies; presentations/papers from a conference on girls and STEM held in 2006 entitled "Identifying and Developing Talent in STEM: A Planning Meeting"