2011 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC)February 2-4, 2011 • San Antonio, TX
Transforming the Education of Future Generations in Engineering
and Engineering Technology
Jan MorrisonPresident, TIES
What is STEM EDUCATION?
STEM Education refers to the teaching and learning of these disciplines usually in a trans-disciplinary fashion to a level of rigor at least sufficient for college readiness without remediation and the “T & E” informs the “S & M”.
A student's high school experience with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) coursework has proven to be an important indicator for overall college readiness, postsecondary success, and preparation for STEM careers.
But the numbers are cause for concern. Of the 1.9 million students who enrolled in college, only 1.3 million were ready for college-level STEM work without remediation, and less than 280,000 intended to major in STEM-related fields.
What is STEM EDUCATION?
The special significance of STEM education, and its challenges, has led to three primary areas of focus:
• Student achievement in STEM disciplines in high school is among the strongest predictors of success in college. Consequently, the effort to develop more effective teachers in math and science as well as new STEM curricula and classroom assessments will offer greater opportunity for youth.
• STEM disciplines pose some of the highest barriers to college readiness for students, especially students from disadvantaged and underserved backgrounds. And yet STEM study, when taught well, can be powerfully motivating for students, engaging and nurturing their natural curiosity about how their world works. The foundation is pursuing the creation of academic supports across the curricula, including STEM coursework, aligned with college-ready state standards.
• The STEM education challenge—and the concerns it raises about U.S. economic competitiveness—has provoked the nation’s STEM experts, innovators, and leaders to get more directly involved in developing solutions. The STEM sector’s engagement on education reform issues and its efforts to help school systems incubate, pressure test, and adopt effective innovations are a critical factor in improving student achievement
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2011
The rapid evolution of the new global “knowledge economy” with profound effects on the world of work—all work?
The sudden and dramatic shift from information that is limited in terms of amount of availability to information characterized by flux and gut.
The increasing impact of media and technology on how young people learn and relate to the world—and to each other.
(Wagner, Tony: The Global Achievement Gap, 2008.)
How does US education respond to…How does US education respond to…
The Problem: A Leaky Pipeline
The Problem: Being Shut Out of STEM Careers
Theory of Action: Scaling Innovation Through Managed Networks
Three key elements…
1. Investing in key states that can creatively apply their own intellectual and scientific, technical and corporate and financial to leverage and sustain multiple STEM approaches
2. Connecting these states and other partners through active networking designed to learn, capture and distribute innovation and change behavior
3. Funding national advocacy through a coalition of outstanding champions that range from corporate executives and political leaders to Nobel Laureates
Theory of Action: Outcomes Aligned with College Ready and Post-Secondary Success
College Readiness
Equity
Ecooomic Competitiveness
Teaching Effectiveness
Knowledge Capture and Transfer
“Real” Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
College Readiness
Equity
Ecooomic Competitiveness
Teaching Effectiveness
Knowledge Capture and Transfer
“Real” Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
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STEM Can Harness This Momentum Through an Integrated Mesh Network Approach
Building and Linking Operational Networks
Creating Enabling Infrastructure
Harnessing Political Will and Rebranding STEMAccelerating Transformative Models of STEM Learning
Building and Linking Strategic Networks
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Multi-state network assets as new channels for scaling to accelerate the spread of key College Ready initiatives
A receptive and catalyzed community for adopting, adapting, and piloting initiative activities
Deeper connections to influential and non-traditional players with unique expertise, competencies, and resources
A powerful convening strategy that allows for broader collaboration and co-construction
Mechanisms for supporting information and capturing lessons learned from new approaches
A sense of urgency around which government and industry can rally and mobilize
New methods that raise the bar on both rigor and improving student and teacher engagement
Catalyzing STEM Communities Via Networks
The “Active” Playing Field
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CaliforniaCaliforniaSTEM LearningSTEM LearningNetworkNetwork
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In-place STEM Schools/NetworksIn-place STEM Schools/Networks
STEM Network Start-UpSTEM Network Start-Up
NGA Designated STEM Center NGA Designated STEM Center
Race to the Top WinnerRace to the Top Winner
STEM Platform School or SiteSTEM Platform School or Site
Intensive Partnership SiteIntensive Partnership Site
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Innovation by Networking States and Powerful Partners
State Innovation Networks…
• T-STEM Initiative
• Ohio STEM Learning Network OSLN
• North Carolina STEM Community Collaboratives NC
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• Empire State STEM Learning Network NYSTEM
• California STEM Learning Network…CSLNet
• Washington State STEM Center
• Tennessee STEM Learning Network TNLN
• New Mexico STEM Learning Network
PanhandleTexas Tech T-STEM
Texas Tech Lubbock ISD
ESC Regions 14 -18
WestEl Paso T-STEM
UT El Paso 12 El Paso area school districts
Region 19
SouthEl Centro del Futuro • Region One (partnering w/)• UT Pan Am • 13 school districts, and the • UT Dana Center
EastEast Texas STEM UT Tyler TX A&M Texarkana ESC Regions 5-8 & 6 ISDs in NE Texas
Southeast Regional STEM UT Medical Branch Rice Texas State NASA ESC Regions 3-5 Houston Museum of Natural Sci 9 ISDs (including Houston, Galveston, Cypress Fairbanks)
CentralTransformation 2013
Region 13 in Austin (partnering w/) ESC Region 20 in San Antonio
UT Austin College of Engineering San Antonio ISD
Taylor ISD
Dana Center at UT Austin Providing support to centers and
academies, as well as other schools across Texas
NorthNorth Texas STEM Texas A&M Dallas ISD ESC Region 10
7 T-STEM Centers
CentralWaco ISD – AJ MooreTexas BioSci - Temple CollegeManor ISDRapoport - WacoHarmony Science-Bryan/College StationHarmony Science - WacoHarmony Science - Austin
WestBurnham Wood –Da Vinci – El Paso
Harmony Science El PasoEl Paso ISD/El Paso CC
SouthHarmony Science –San Antonio
North East ISD – Lee HS/Nimitz MSCorpus Christi ISD – Innovative Academy
IDEA Academy – San BenitoIDEA Academy -Mission
La Sara ISDValley View ISD
School of Excellence – San AntonioHarmony Science – Laredo
Harmony Science – BrownsvillePharr San-Juan Alamo/South Texas College
EastAldine ISD – Carver HSYES Prep SEHarmony School of ExcellenceKIPP HoustonHarmony Science- BeaumontHarmony Science – NW HoustonLongview ISD – Longview GlobalFruitvale ISDGalveston ISD – Ball HSHarmony School of ScienceEnergized for Excellence - HISD
NorthIrving Academy Harmony Science-Fort WorthWaxahachie ISD – Waxahachie GlobalDallas ISD - Conrad HSRichardson ISD – Berkner HSPeak Academy-Williams PrepCarrollton-Farmers Branch ISD - METSAHarmony School of Nature - Dallas
PanhandleNew Deal ISDHarmony Science-Lubbock
T-STEM Academies
Early Innovators2006 Academies2007 Academies2008 Academies
STEM Regional Hubs* Platform Schools &Connected K-8 Programs of Excellence
STEM Regional Hubs* Platform Schools &Connected K-8 Programs of Excellence
Regional PartnershipsRegional Partnershipsand Investorsand Investors
$$ + In-Kind Support$$ + In-Kind Support
Grant $$Grant $$Grant $$ + Grant $$ + Technical AssistanceTechnical Assistance
StateStateOf OhioOf Ohio
Ohio STEMOhio STEMLearning NetworkLearning Network
H.B. 119
contribution of talent and resourcestied to clear regional benefit
capacity building, regional &statewide impact throughnetwork-centric participation
Managed byManaged byBattelle andBattelle andCore TeamCore Team
IntermediaryIntermediary
PCL STEMPCL STEMSubcommitteeSubcommittee
Partnership forPartnership forContinued LearningContinued Learning
Ohio STEM Learning Network (OSLN) Alignment of State, Private and Local Design Principles and Investments
Battelle +Battelle +Support TeamSupport Team
coordination
ClevelandDaytonAkronCincinnatiColumbus
STEM Regional Hub Funding Model
09/10 Biennium Budget$20 Million newIncluded in H.B. 1
Building a Network of STEM Communities
Ready to Launch3 STEM Communities engaged in 2009
Emerging/Incubating CommunitiesFuture STEM Communities being identified
COMMUNITIES GOVERNMENTS
KNOWLEDGE CAPTURE & TECHNOLOGYECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
POLICY & REGULATION
GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESSPARENTS, TEACHERS & STUDENTS
ECONOMICPROSPERITY
By connecting communities to the state of the art programs, standards and assessments, curriculum/content, professional development, and expertise, the entire network benefits.
North Carolina STEM Community Collaborative—NC STEM… Our Challenge is Ours, Collectively
Empire State STEM Learning Network
Network design derived from progressive dialogue: A state-wide system of multi-dimensional, public/private partnerships to manage and execute strategic roadmap
Public/private partnerships:• Business• Education (PK-20+)• Parents• NGOs*• Government
*Non-government organizations
Agile systems design approach:• Concept (define the market, requirements, solution architecture)• Prototype (develop beta, soft launch)• Adapt (refine)• Implementation (scale)
Web-based access to knowledge assets and the network• Effective policies,
programs, processes• Research on STEM
education• Value proposition and
recommended actions aligned to constituency
• Links to other state and national initiatives
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Objectives:• Grow STEM teaching and learning capacity• Accelerate knowledge capture and sharing of
effective policies and practices• Stimulate ongoing collaborative innovation
Collaboration with other state and national leaders
Engineering Partners in Innovation & Networking: Battelle
Systems Engineering Informing Public EducationSystems Engineering Informing Public Education
RAYTHEON AND BHEF BRINGING SYSTEMS MODELING TO STEM TEACHING AND LEARNING
“Systems models have the potential tooffer an organized and comprehensiveapproach to understanding the U.S.education system.” BHEF 2009
Engineering and STEM Instruction: The Application of Underlying Phenomena and Logic and The Importance of Fabrication K-12
NAEP 2014
Engineering in the Science Framework and Science Standards
The MIT Fab Lab
Serious Gaming
“Engineering Innovation”
MESA
SEEK
Camp Invention
Engineering The Future (NCTL and MOS)
Engineering in Action: MIT Fab Lab in Cleveland
College Ready/Work Ready STEM Learning Environments Improved Student Performance
Evidence of Success
Reading MathWriting Science Social Studies
State Average(OH)
Metro
Social Studies ScienceMath Reading
9th Graders Taking 10th
Grade Test at MC2
Same 8th GradersTaking 8th Grade Test
Science MathReading
State Average (TX)
TSTEM Network Schools (average)
T-STEM Network, Texas
% of Students Passing or Commended on State Exam (TAKS), 2008
Metro High School, Columbus, OH*
% of Students Passing State Exam (OGT) 2009
MC2STEM High School, Cleveland, OH
% of Students Passing 10th Grade State Tests as 9th Graders at MC2 vs. % of Same Students Passing 8th Grade Test in 8th Grade
•% of Metro students taking the test who are free and reduced-lunch is 35%, compared to 24% statewide
Low IncomeHispanicBlack
DPS
DSST
Denver School of Science and Technology, CO
10th Grade Math, % of Students Proficient or Advanced, 2008
DSST was named highest performing school in CO