Bhaskar Upadhyay, a professor in the Departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Organizational, Leadership, Policy, and Development, recently led a team of graduate students, Cuc Vue and Stephanie Erickson, to Nepal through the JRM Fellowship in Community Development Program. The students just completed their five-week-long internship at the Shree Mahendragram Secondary School, Sudal, Bhaktapur, supporting teachers to build pedagogical and STEM inquiry skills for a more engaged STEM and English language classrooms.

With Upadhyay’s guidance, the students led two workshops for 40 teachers in the school that touched on English language use in STEM areas, STEAM activities based on the local Newari cultural festival called Gaijatra, and several other pedagogical skills to make learning fun, inquiry-based, and culturally sustaining.  The JRM Fellowship is supported by the JRM Foundation For Humanity and CEHD’s International Initiatives. The 2022 Fellows and Upadhyay thank the JRM Foundation, CEHD, and International Initiatives for their kind support.