From the Field
UNPREDICTABILITY
A Teaching Artist’s
Perspective on STEAM
Partnerships
IN THE OVERLAP ZONES
BY JEFF MATHER
STEAM education means more than simply adding Art to STEM. STEAM
PBL (Project Based Learning) at Drew Charter School in Atlanta has taken
many forms and generated many surprises.
The nature of true partnership is that the results are unpredictable. STEAM
learning models challenge educational reform concepts that push for
templates and predictability.
I’ve served over 120 schools as a teaching artist, mostly visiting for
want to know what they are going to “get”. Hopefully people can
extended residencies and coaching large scale environmental
feel reassured about this unpredictability when they can see my 25
sculpt W&R&