Kenan Fellows Program Honored

NC State’s Kenan Fellows Program for Curriculum and Leadership Development  University received the Don Bailey College/University Distinguished Service Award from the North Carolina Science Teachers Association. The award recognizes exceptional service to science education.

“We are honored to be the first education program to receive this award,” said Dr. Valerie Brown-Schild, director of the Kenan Fellows Program. The Kenan Fellows Program is an initiative of the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology & Science to develop partnerships between researchers and K-12 teachers to create science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curriculum. Public school teachers from diverse disciplines collaborate with a research mentor during the two-year fellowship. The program also promotes teacher leadership and retention. Since the program began in 2000, more than 100 K-12 teachers have been awarded a fellowship and 83 percent of Kenan Fellows have remained in the classroom.