TIES Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM
Education Administration ProgramsOhio, United States11-50 Employees
TIES Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM is a small organization based in Cleveland, Ohio, operating within the education administration programs sector. It focuses on designing STEM schools, developing STEM curricula, and providing instructional support for schools, districts, states, and the federal government. Its design teams work to create and build STEM-focused schools across the country. The organization emphasizes professional development for teachers as a foundation for improving STEM teaching across grade levels. TIES advocates moving STEM instruction away from fragmented bits of information toward scientific understanding and reasoning, treating STEM education as trans-disciplinary and project-based to address real-world issues. It collaborates with regional and state economic development entities to advance curriculum and instructional program development, and notes that students are digital natives whose learning should reflect the relevance of technology and engineering to science and mathematics.