Success Leads to Success grant in 1994 to expand Students as Teachers throughout the district. The grant enabled the district's nine science teachers in grades 6-12 to attend professional development workshops and to adapt the Students as Teachers concept to their own classrooms. Stan and his wife, Trish, have presented the program to science teachers at several national conferences. In fact, Stan's enthusiasm for the program, and the enthusiasm for science it creates in students, resulted in his receiving the national Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching in 1994. Science Students as Teachers continues to produce big results for little cost in Warrensburg R-VI Schools.
Teachers have dreams, professionally and for their classrooms.
ISE grants can make those dreams happen. Boa Constrictors , African pygmy hedgehogs and giant tropical millipedes are among the hundreds of animals in Stan Smith's classroom.