Notre Dame Center for STEM Education

Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School is proud to announce the selection of three teachers, Kayleen Molina, Sarah Motter, Patti Barrett , as Fellows in the 2021 cohort of the Trustey Family STEM Teaching Fellows. These teachers were selected as one of 8 schools in the program’s sixth cohort and will join over 150 teachers from the program’s first five cohorts. 

The Trustey Family STEM Teaching Fellows is a competitive, three summer, two school year program that seeks to improve STEM teaching and learning for all students, especially underserved populations in STEM. Fellows will attend three Summer Institutes at the University of Notre Dame, beginning in July 2021. Throughout the school year they will receive content specific coaching for their instructional practice and targeted support as they expand access to and opportunities for STEM learning in their school. 


The Trustey Family STEM Teaching Fellows is sponsored by the University of Notre Dame Center for STEM Education, housed in the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame. The Center for STEM Education’s mission seeks to make STEM Education a force for good by helping all students, especially those underserved and in Catholic schools, engage and excel in the STEM disciplines through research and the translation of research into practice.  

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Notre Dame Center for STEM Education

The Notre Dame Center for STEM Education, housed in the Institute for Educational Initiatives, was founded in 2013 to make a lasting impact in STEM education through its research and the translation of evidence-based findings into programs that have broader impacts on student interest in, identity with, and learning of the STEM disciplines. The Center collaborates with researchers and practitioners at Notre Dame and across the nation to help all students innovate, engage, and excel in the STEM disciplines. The work of the Center especially targets students from under-represented populations and students in Catholic schools.

Faculty and staff in the Center are integrally involved in the major functions of a University – research, service, and teaching. Every member of the Center is somehow involved in one or more of the Center’s research or evaluation clusters (currently focused on STEM Teacher Leadership, STEM Integration, Core Instructional Practice, the Integration of Catholic Social Teaching and STEM, and outcomes from our professional formation programs). All members have service responsibilities in one of our two anchor teacher formation programs: The Trustey Family STEM Teaching Fellows and the Advanced Placement Teacher Investment Program. In addition, faculty have various undergraduate and graduate level teaching responsibilities.

The Center for STEM Education is located in Carole Sandner Hall, at the heart of campus behind the Main Building and the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.

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