EnLiST: Entrepreneurial leadership in STEM teaching and learning

Abstract

University and school educators designed and enacted a professional learning initiative to transform K-12 students’ learning in STEM. They sustained engagement in an expanding network, focused on building disciplinary and pedagogical understandings, embedded in an entrepreneurial teacher leadership model. “Working in contexts that are (or justifiably perceived to be) resource-deprived, entrepreneurial STEM teachers succeed in creating innovative and transformative learning opportunities or environments, both within and beyond their own classrooms, such that the quality and quantity of students' STEM learning experiences and outcomes are markedly better than the actual or perceived norms of their milieu” (Abd-El-Khalick, Gaffney, Price, Koehler, & Martin, 2011).