STEM Summer Institute 2026

Connie Michael is a 5th grade teacher at Crow Agency Public School in Crow Agency Montana. She has taught for 36 years. Having moved to Montana ten years ago, Connie spent the first part of her career teaching in k-2 bilingual classrooms in Central Washington. She is National Board Certified in Early Childhood Education and holds endorsements in Bilingual Education, Reading, and Special Education.  Connie strives to integrate the sciences through all curriculum areas and has worked to build partnerships with community organizations to support her mission to bring Project based learning into her classroom and help her students build native knowledge through outdoor experiences. Connie is part of the Noyce Math and Science Fellowship through Montana State University, a Montana Environmental Education Educator of the Year Awardee, A member of the Teacher Innovator Institute; Air and Space Museum, National Rural Education National Signature Project Awardee, a finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, and received the Voya Unsung Hero Teacher Grand Prize award this year for her project Indigi-STEAM.