St. Therese School Receives National Recognition for Commitment to Empowering Students

​Named a distinguished school for STEM and career learning program

Kansas City, MO – St. Therese  has been recognized as a Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Distinguished School for providing broad access to transformative learning opportunities for students through PLTW Gateway. It is one of just 176 across the U.S. to receive this honor. PLTW is a nonprofit organization that serves millions of PreK-12 students and teachers in over 12,200 schools across the U.S.
 
The PLTW Distinguished School recognition honors schools committed to increasing student access, engagement, and achievement in their PLTW programs. To be eligible for the designation, St. Therese had to meet the following criteria:

• Offer at least one PLTW Gateway unit at each grade level;
• Have more than 50 percent of the student body participating during the 2018-19 school year;
• Have 25 percent of students advancing to high school participate in two or more units,
• have strategies and supports in place that support reasonably proportional representation with regard to race, ethnicity, poverty, gender and can support such claims with relevant data.

Through PLTW programs, students develop STEM knowledge as well as in-demand, transportable skills that they will use both in school and for the rest of their lives, on any career path they take. PLTW Gateway empowers students to lead their own discovery and uncover a range of paths and possibilities they can look forward to in high school and beyond.