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Enhancing STEM Education: Insights from the STEM Leadership Network Forum #3

Join us for the STEM Leadership Network Forum #3 on April 17, 2014, in ESD 123 Blue Mountain Room, featuring Georgia Boatman and Peggy Willcuts. This engaging event focuses on the essential elements of effective STEM instruction. Participants will immerse themselves in hands-on engineering activities, share successes and strategies from throughout the year, and collaborate on action planning for future initiatives. Together, we will build a shared understanding of STEM education, explore research support, and create actionable plans to foster engagement across school district teams.

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Enhancing STEM Education: Insights from the STEM Leadership Network Forum #3

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  1. MAKING THE CASE… for STEM Education STEM Leadership Network: Forum #3 April 17, 2014 ESD 123 Blue Mtn. Room Georgia Boatman & Peggy Willcuts

  2. PREPARING YOUR STEM NOTEBOOK • Title for Today’s Page: • SLN 2013-2014 Forum #3 • April 17, 2014 • ESD 123 Blue Mt. Room

  3. Tools for Your Use… • Quick inventory of table: • Table Box – take off the lid and set underneath

  4. Remember your two lenses… Adult Learner Instructional Leader 4

  5. AGENDA OVERVIEW Lunch ! • PART ONE: • Immersion into STEM Education through Family Engineering • PART TWO: • Sharing Successes • PART THREE: • Team Action Planning

  6. GOALS • Build a shared understanding of the elements of effective STEM instruction • Increase awareness of the research supporting effective teaching and learning • Experience, first-hand, an immersion activity modeling effective STEM instruction • Take action together as school district teams

  7. PART ONE:Team Up Engineering and Collaboration TEAM UP!

  8. Engineering Experience • Task: You are engineers hired to design the framework for the model of a tall building. • Materials Available: 20 Pipe cleaners. • Constraints: • Work as a team. • Tower must be free standing-not attached to anything and not hand-held. • Start with discussion and sketch of potential plan. • Listen for the chime – important instructions will follow!

  9. Engineering Experience Continued Due to significant cuts in budgets, you will now have only 15 pipe cleaners to work with. Put 5 back in the bag.

  10. Engineering Experience Continued We have just learned that this project is being managed by a company from another country. Their engineers do not speak English. • All team members are now forbidden to speak.

  11. Engineering Experience Continued Human Resources has just informed us that we have to reduce our workforce by 50%. • All team members must now work with one hand behind their back.

  12. PART TWO:Sharing Successes Part 1Richland District Middle SchoolsLivingston Elementary

  13. LUNCH!

  14. PART TWO:Sharing Successes Part 2Learning From Each Other Poster Session

  15. Your Focus for the Poster Session • Listen for how teams have used resources from the SLN: • Family engineering • Presentation resources • Readings • Parent/community engagement

  16. Poster Session • Leave a docent with your poster • 3 minutes per poster – listen for the chime!

  17. TEAM DISCUSSION AND SENSE-MAKING • What did you hear that is similar to what you have done but had an interesting twist? • Was there anything you heard that might change the direction your team will take next year? • Were there ideas you could implement right away?

  18. PART THREE:ACTION PLANNING

  19. Action Plan Continuum We have a strong Action Plan and we REALLY work it! We have a pretty good Action Plan, and we are making some of it happen Well….we HAVE an Action Plan, but need a nudge to really make it happen Action Plan? What the heck’s an Action Plan?

  20. Final Notes… SLN Evaluation AESD Survey • See You Next Year! • Elementary and Secondary Cadres • Building Administrators • +Teacher Leader(s) • Please Complete Your Evaluations • New Technology-easy as PIE! • Drive safely!

  21. MAKING THE CASE… for STEM Education STEM Leadership Network: Forum #3 April 17, 2014 ESD 123 Blue Mtn. Room Georgia Boatman & Peggy Willcuts

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