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STEM 2013-14

STEM 2013-14. Shaker Regional School District. Shaker STEM Team Gateway Project What were we thinking? Professional Development Collaboration Time Connecting to Community School Board Buy In Project Based Learning Staff Collaboration. Shaker Regional School District STEM Vision:

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STEM 2013-14

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  1. STEM 2013-14 Shaker Regional School District

  2. Shaker STEM Team Gateway Project What were we thinking? Professional Development Collaboration Time Connecting to Community School Board Buy In Project Based Learning Staff Collaboration

  3. Shaker Regional School District STEM Vision: • Our students need to be prepared for future careers that do not already exist. Shaker Regional School District feels it is essential to provide the knowledge and skills in technology and engineering so the students can be a literate, resilient, adaptable, creative, thinkers, problem solvers, and collaborators, to be college and career ready. • STEM literacy should begin in Pre-K and spiral throughout their K-12 experience. The skills they learn in early elementary and scaffold through middle and high school through a carefully articulated viable and guaranteed curriculum. Experiences should be authentic and real-world problem solving that integrate the science, math, engineering, and technology skills necessary to solve problems to improve the quality of life. • STEM education is embedded, supported, and articulated in the Next Generations Science Standards, which our curriculum is aligned.

  4. Where has Shaker met success? Belmont Elementary Scientists Aligning curriculum K-12 with stem competencies/benchmarks Helping teachers audit what they do that relates to STEM Beginning lists of materials we already have that can support STEM education Building/implementing tasks/Assessments starting that include STEM challenges Clubs/competitions that are STEM related (Robotics Clubs Middle/High School, Bridge Challenge) STEM classes Middle/High School Created a presentation for our team to do district wide for the purposes of promoting STEM and what we already do STEM Career Days to be planned for MS/HS

  5. What have been challenges for Shaker? TIME TO COLLABORATE * We really need more professional development days, late start days, and PLC time to make all that we need to incorporate work effectively UNDERSTANDING OF ASSSESSMENT TASK DESIGN * Staff are at different levels of proficiency in assessment task design and matching to curriculum competencies/benchmarks; We need more work here. CONNECTING WITH COMMUNITY * This gets back to time and coordination JOB EMBEDDED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TIME * Keeping staff in classrooms but still getting professional development to create performance tasks Canterbury Elementary Scientists

  6. STUDENTS ENGAGED IN STEM K-12 Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.  Tom Brokaw quotes 

  7. 5th Grade Pumkinomics STEM Challenge

  8. Mr. McDonalds STEM Course High School

  9. HIGH SCHOOL ASTRONOMY CLASS

  10. HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS & STEM CLUBS

  11. ELEMENTARY STEM CHALLENGES GRADE 4 ROCKETRY GRADE 5 COLLECTING DATA

  12. IMPLEMENTING DISCOVERY SCIENCE TECHBOOKS MIDDLE SCHOOL…. Piloting in grade 8 this year….

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