All-OPAS Workshop 2009: ETIC Internal OUS Grant Reporting February 4, 2009

1. All-OPAS Workshop 2009: ETIC Internal OUS Grant Reporting February 4, 2009 Oregon Institute of TechnologyProject Lead the Way Teacher Training$273,000Maintain PLTW State Affiliate Status & host Summer Training Institute for Teachers OPAS Vision for the Year 2020 - All Oregonians have the opportunity to choose and successfully pursue engineering or applied science as their field of study and career, thereby helping Oregon’s industries innovate and prosper in the global economy.

2. All-OPAS Workshop 2009: ETIC Internal OUS Grant Reporting February 4, 2009 • Enable State Affiliate to train and support PLTW teachers, schools, certifications, and grow Master Teachers • Best Practices Used & Key Learnings relevant to OPAS Bright Future Proposal • Teachers training teachers (Desimone, et al., 2002) • Infrastructure is important to continuing the work (Nelson, et al., 2002) • Collaboration between sTEm faculty is important to sustain pre-engineering in high schools (Brower, et al., 2007) • Collaboration between high school and university E & ET programs essential to grow engineering student population (Brower, 2009) OPAS Vision for the Year 2020 - All Oregonians have the opportunity to choose and successfully pursue engineering or applied science as their field of study and career, thereby helping Oregon’s industries innovate and prosper in the global economy.

3. All-OPAS Workshop 2009: ETIC Internal OUS Grant Reporting Project Lead The Way Teacher Training OPAS Vision for the Year 2020 - All Oregonians have the opportunity to choose and successfully pursue engineering or applied science as their field of study and career, thereby helping Oregon’s industries innovate and prosper in the global economy.

4. All-OPAS Workshop 2009: ETIC Internal OUS Grant Reporting Project Lead The Way Teacher Training OPAS Vision for the Year 2020 - All Oregonians have the opportunity to choose and successfully pursue engineering or applied science as their field of study and career, thereby helping Oregon’s industries innovate and prosper in the global economy.

5. All-OPAS Workshop 2009: ETIC Internal OUS Grant Reporting Project Lead The Way Teacher Training • Best News • Invited presentations shows national interest in what we are doing • Jan. 2008, US Department of ED TIIB Math & Science Partnership Regional Meeting, San Francisco on PD & Evaluation Models used • Oct. 2008, National PLTW Affiliate Directors meeting, Phoenix, on Oregon funding strategies • Partnership with PSU, Center for Sci Ed. to offer graduate degree to classroom teachers • Pathway discussions with several HS to integrate PLTW • Salem-Keizer SD, Gladstone HS with Clackamas CC, Harriet Tubman’s Young Women’s Academy • Poised to offer Oregon’s 4th Summer Training Institute July 6 – 17th • Expect two Master Teachers in Oregon after this summer. OPAS Vision for the Year 2020 - All Oregonians have the opportunity to choose and successfully pursue engineering or applied science as their field of study and career, thereby helping Oregon’s industries innovate and prosper in the global economy.

6. All-OPAS Workshop 2009: ETIC Internal OUS Grant Reporting Project Lead The Way Teacher Training OPAS Vision for the Year 2020 - All Oregonians have the opportunity to choose and successfully pursue engineering or applied science as their field of study and career, thereby helping Oregon’s industries innovate and prosper in the global economy. • Quotes from Supplemental Grantees : • Jonathon Bullock, Principal, Redmond High School • The ETIC grant has allowed us to expand our Project Lead the Way program in a variety of ways. We now have more students, a wider diversity of students, and more program capacity than ever before. Our students are engaged in our pre-engineering program with highly-trained teachers and state-of-the-art technology, allowing us to make PLTW a key component of our career academy program.

7. All-OPAS Workshop 2009: ETIC Internal OUS Grant Reporting Project Lead The Way Teacher Training OPAS Vision for the Year 2020 - All Oregonians have the opportunity to choose and successfully pursue engineering or applied science as their field of study and career, thereby helping Oregon’s industries innovate and prosper in the global economy. • Quotes from Supplemental Grantees: • Steve Day, Principal, Health & Science High School • All is well regarding PLTW.  We have a brand-new-to-teaching teacher, Tom Baker, working in what has become our 10th graders' favorite class by far!  I've been very impressed with the curriculum that Tom has been given as well as the structure of the work (engineering design was not my background at all).   Our passing rate at the end of first trimester is 90% for the IED course.  To provide context:  this is a course that all of our 10th graders take as a part of their core curriculum here at HS2.  With regard to underrepresented groups in engineering, our 10th grade is approx: 48% living in poverty, 35% Latino, 60% female, 20% English-language learners.  As such, we celebrate the success of our teacher and our students!!!

8. All-OPAS Workshop 2009: ETIC Internal OUS Grant Reporting Project Lead The Way Teacher Training OPAS Vision for the Year 2020 - All Oregonians have the opportunity to choose and successfully pursue engineering or applied science as their field of study and career, thereby helping Oregon’s industries innovate and prosper in the global economy. • Biggest Challenge to Success • The most important issue related to the success of PLTW in Oregon is the lack of a “State Leader.” Job Description of a State Leader: • Better to be located in one of the major metropolitan areas of the state • Must have a pulse on issues pertaining to middle and high schools, both political and day-to-day • Must have a passion for STEM education within Oregon • Not just for the top 10% of students but top 80% • Able to talk CTE, Science, and Math (please collect resumes for this position at the end of meeting!)

9. All-OPAS Workshop 2009: ETIC Internal OUS Grant Reporting February 4, 2009 References: • Building Confidence and Aspirations in Low Income High School Students Through a Technology and Workforce Skills Development Program: Lessons Learned from the InfoLink Experience, 1994-2002. Nelson, Post, Bickel, December 2002. http://itclass.heinz.cmu.edu/infolink2003/InfoLink03/docs/Lessons_Learned.pdf • Effects of professional development on teachers’ instruction: Results from a three-year longitudinal study. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 24(2), 81–112, Desimone, Porter, Garet, & Birman, 2002. http://www.pdal.net/inc/docs/Desimone%20et%20al%202002.pdf • STEM is Not Just a Four Individually Lettered Word, 2007 ASEE Annual Conference, Brower, Grimsley, & Newberry, June 2007.http://www.icee.usm.edu/ICEE/conferences/asee2007/papers/884_STEM_IS_NOT_JUST_A_FOUR_INDIVIDUALLY_LET.pdf • Linking High School Pre-Engineering with University E and ET Programs. ASEE Conference for Industry & Education Collaboration, to be published (draft, available on request), Brower, Feb. 2009. OPAS Vision for the Year 2020 - All Oregonians have the opportunity to choose and successfully pursue engineering or applied science as their field of study and career, thereby helping Oregon’s industries innovate and prosper in the global economy.