How Carleton’s Summer Program for High Schoolers Lets Instructors Experiment

As advertised, teaching in the summer program gave Nierobisz both the time and an incentive to innovate. It also felt less risky, she said, to try something new when she was teaching a different group of students for a shorter period of time and didn’t have to assign grades. “I said no all those years,” she says, “and now I see what I was missing out on.”