Last year on Blackstone Valley Prep’s Facebook page, we shared five helpful questions for social media consumers to consider before posting or sharing content online. Why? Because more people are using social media than ever before! [...]

By Steph Primiani, Director of STEM and Alicia Cuomo, Brown University Urban Education Policy Intern Making Mistakes How do you feel when you make a mistake? Do your cheeks flush? Do you feel a weight in the pit of your stomach? Do you want to [...]

By Steph Primiani, Director of STEM and Alicia Cuomo, Brown University Urban Education Policy Intern Why peer learning? Have you ever been on a committee? What about in a study group? Or on a team? Peer-to-peer learning is regularly used in [...]

By Steph Primiani, Director of STEM and Alicia Cuomo, Brown University Urban Education Policy Intern Why story problems? Evan uses ⅔ cup of pineapple for each smoothie he makes. How many cups of pineapple does Evan use to make 6 smoothies? A [...]

When we sat down with Josian Quianes on a beautiful fall afternoon in a quiet corridor at BVP High School, we expected to talk about his senior year and the college application process: the preparation and the challenges; his course load and [...]

By Steph Primiani, Director of STEM and Alicia Cuomo, Brown University Urban Education Policy Intern Hunting, Not Fishing Have you ever cast a fishing line? The nature of fishing is that you never quite know exactly what you’ll get. Managing [...]