Jan Morrison President, TIES (Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM) Executive Director, Envision Excellence in STEM Education (501(c)3) As the President of TIES and Executive Director of Envision Excellence in STEM and a recognized leader in STEM education, Jan provides vital support to National and State STEM initiatives most recently serving as the Senior STEM advisor to The White House and the U.S. Department of Education in development of their sweeping Race to the Top and Innovate to Educate education reform programs. Current national engagements include her work as the Senior Consultant for STEM Education for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, NASA STEM education initiatives, Battelle Memorial Institute, the Philanthropy Roundtable, the National Governors Association, Innovate-Educate Mexico, the National Association for College Admission Counseling, the Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian and the National Academy of Engineering as it developed the SEEK-16 project. She also serves on the task force designing the national engineering education standards and is a co-contributor in the national task force investigating the efficacy of AP engineering and pre-engineering. Jan is currently advising the following states as they craft their vision for STEM education; Arizona, California, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Washington. In that capacity, her work on curriculum and professional development and project-based learning is reaching millions of children in classrooms every day. As a leader in engaging business and industry in the K-16 STEM education pipeline Jan also acts as STEM advisor to numerous corporations and philanthropies including General Electric, Intel, The Carnegie Foundation, Siemens and Chevron among others. Her work with these partners includes organizing regional and national convenings, speaking at industry conferences and customized briefings for senior management and community outreach staff. Her most recent focus has been building capacity within the energy sector to facilitate teacher training in cutting edge and emerging technologies to ensure current students are exposed to these vital career paths so the future U.S. workforce pipeline is filled with well trained STEM professionals ready to address our growing energy needs. Jan is also in great demand as a speaker on STEM education, project based learning, teacher training and curriculum development and speaks at academic and industry conferences several times each month. With a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Rochester, a master’s in administration from George Washington University and as an electron microscopy research associate at Georgetown University, Morrison has designed and implemented STEM curriculum and instructional programs in schools across the nation over thirty years. She is driven by her belief that although many children in our country are underexposed to the dynamic STEM fields, they will--given the chance-- find themselves drawn to science and the technical fields if they are challenged and provided with outstanding teaching. Jan and TIES seeks to bring outstanding professional development to all teachers and rigorous and engaging STEM curriculum to all students in the United States. Jan Morrison

Jan Morrison Executive Director, Ties Teaching Institute For Excellence In STEM

Jan Morrison, President and CEO of The Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM (TIES), announced today that TIES has been awarded a grant to oversee the curriculum and systems design of STEM schools in Egypt. Ms. Morrison stated "The language of STEM transcends boundaries and engaged STEM-literate students will ensure a future of global citizens motivated to solve the grand challenges of our world." Quote end Cleveland, OH October 2, 2012 (PRWEB) October 04, 2012 Jan Morrison, President and CEO of The Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM (TIES), announced today that TIES has been awarded a grant to oversee the curriculum and systems design of STEM schools in Egypt. TIES will be working under the Education Consortium for the Advancement of STEM in Egypt project (ECASE) a four-year, $25 million USAID funded project implemented in partnership with World Learning, The Franklin Institute (TFI), and 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education (21PSTEM). In this role TIES will continue their work currently underway throughout the United States working with government entities and school districts to engineer schools that engage children in real world problem solving through project based learning (PBL) steeped in the disciplines of Science Technology Engineering and Math. "We are delighted to support the expansion of STEM education in Egypt. stated Ms. Morrison.

Jan Morrison, President, TIES, and Executive Director, Envision, announces the opening of a new office at Union Mill in Baltimore, Maryland. Jan Morrison addressed an audience of 50 educators in Bismarck, ND to discuss moving STEM education forward in the state. Join Jan Morrison, TIES Executive Director, when she presents for the Association on Saturday, September 26 at 8:30 in Room 337 of the Madison Hotel in Washington D.C. We are pleased to announce that Edweek’s, March 4 publication, will include the article, STEM as a Curriculum, An Experimental Approach, by Raymond V. ‘Buzz’ Bartlett, Senior STEM consultant and Jan Morrison, Executive Director, TIES, Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM. Jan and her staff bring years of experience to educators, corporate America and government.

Change the Equation: As a founding member of Change the Equation, Jan Morrison, President, TIES, provides technical support to the network of more than 100 CEOs as the new organization pledges to create widespread literacy in science, technology, engineering and math. NC STEM Community Collaborative: With the direction of Jan Morrison and her team, NC STEM Community Collaborative was formed to align communities’ strengths with state and national needs. Jan Morrison, President, TIES, speaks to the network and its goals in a North Dakota Youtube