The NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering
With input from people around the world, an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st century. Their 14 game-changing goals for improving life on the planet, announced in 2008, are outlined here. The committee suggested these Grand Challenges fall into four cross-cutting themes: SUSTAINABILITY, HEALTH, SECURITY, and JOY OF LIVING.

Designing Elementary Teacher Education to Prepare Well-Started Beginners
This paper describes a programmatic reconceptualization of teacher education to prepare novice teachers who are positioned to do the complex work of teaching from the moment they have classrooms of their own. The elementary teacher education program at one university is used as an example case to demonstrate pivotal decisions made in the redesign effort and to depict challenges faced and solutions implemented. Three pillars provide the foundation for this redesign: teaching practice, content knowledge for teaching, and professional ethical obligations. The program's efforts with regard to each of these is described. The authors explore the challenges they have faced and describe how the development of conceptual and practical supports such as foundational frameworks, social structures, and programmatic approaches to design have been central in addressing those challenges.

Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations. The Collective Impact framework identifies 5 conditions that lead to powerful results: 1. Common agenda/shared vision 2. Shared Measurement System/metrics of success 3. Mutually reinforcing activities and coordination 4. Continuous communication 5. Backbone support/structured management processes.

Standards for Preparation and Professional Development for Teachers of Engineering
This resource describes best practices needed to integrate engineering into teacher preparation programs.

Middle School Engineering Design
NGSS Middle school engineering design disciplinary core ideas matrix.

Effective STEM Teacher Preparation, Induction, and Professional Development
Offering a high quality education to all U.S. students and building the educational system to support their teachers are topics of much concern and investment, passion and critique. Teacher quality is at the core of those ardent discussions, with calls for the reform and critical review of teacher preparation, induction, and professional development programs.

Constructing 21st-Centruy Teacher Education
Much of what teachers need to know to be successful is invisible to lay observers, leading to the view that teaching requires little formal study and to frequent disdain for teacher education programs. This article argues that we have learned a great deal about how to create stronger, more effective teacher education programs. Three critical components of such programs include tight coherence and integration among courses and between course work and clinical work in schools, extensive and intensely supervised clinical work integrated with course work using pedagogies that link theory and practice, and closer, proactive relationships with schools that serve diverse learners effectively and develop and model good teaching. The article also urges that schools of education should resist pressures to water down preparation, which ultimately undermine the preparation of entering teachers, the reputation of schools of education, and the strength of the profession.

Program Coverage of Core Content
This resource is a report on the of elementary education program coverage by universities throughout the states.

Refueling the STEM and special education teacher pipelines
This article discusses reasons for STEM and special education teacher shortages in WA state and also suggests several solutions for addressing the shortages.

Three modes of STEM integration for middle school mathematics teachers
Research Paper on Integrated STEM education that discusses three methods that middle school mathematics teachers can utilize to integrate STEM subjects.