Renovations on seven science rooms at Paul D. Schreiber High School have started and are scheduled to be completed by September.
District voters authorized the renovation, which is being performed as part of the community-approved facilities bond, in 2015.
“The goal is to teach our students to think critically and innovatively, while taking an engineering or design approach toward real-world problems as they build on their math and science base,” said Dr. Wafa Westervelt, assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction and assessment.
“The newly renovated science rooms will enable teachers to facilitate more hands-on research,” Westervelt said. “Students will have better tools and a physical space that is more conducive to modern research practices, allowing them to put their knowledge to practice.”
Along with the renovations to the science rooms in the high school, Westervelt said that one science lab will be created in each of the district’s five elementary schools. In addition, she added that the elementary school teachers are being trained in Project Lead the Way, which is a project-based way of approaching math and science that emphasizes teaching students to “find unique solutions to a problem, instead of receiving instruction in a right-or-wrong environment.”
Six additional rooms — three for biology and three for physics — are scheduled to be renovated during the coming school year.
