South Fayette Township School District

Helping your friends learn isn’t cheating

Implementing computational thinking and participatory teaching to personalize learning

We're focusing on an the emerging pathway to develop innovative leadership capabilities in students. This focus has led students to shift from the role of student, to teaching assistant, to curriculum developer, to teacher. Over the course of six years, student teams began teaching and leading af...

Assessing the learning that matters most

Co-creating opportunities and assessments for dispositional learning through a professional learning community

Agency by Design Pittsburgh (AbDPGH) is a research practice partnership meant to connect educators from diverse maker-based learning environments to develop mutual understandings of maker-centered learning and assessment. Specifically, teachers come together in the community to address their need...

Summer Institute powers local educators through STEAM

Summer Institute brings computer science and Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math professional learning throughout the region

The STEAM Innovation Summer Institute is designed to assist districts in transforming education through innovation and to provide experiences for teachers that will become a springboard to a greater vision.

The expectation for participating in the Institute is that participants must implem...

Never too early to consult

Students examine local business challenges from various angles and perspectives.

In Innovation Studio, an elective course open to all students, students partner with local businesses to consider real problems companies are actively working to solve. Students begin each project with a tour of the company and a meeting to understand the problem. From there, students break into ...

Building robust pathways in computer science for every student

Computer science is not an opt-out experience

South Fayette has strategically built a vertically aligned K-12 computational thinking initiative based on the belief that instruction in computational thinking should begin early and grow progressively deeper and more complex through a series of graduated and interrelated projects. Over time, ne...