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RCOE STEM Leadership Network Meeting
April 12, 2017
Quizalize Icebreaker
Go to the following link for your icebreaker: https://goo.gl/S60kpM
RCOE STEM Networking Goal
The intent of these meetings is for district and school STEM leaders to come together to network over important STEM topics, share best practices, and discuss issues affecting STEM schools.
Agenda for Today • Welcome/Registration/Coffee
• Quizalize 8:30 – 9:00
• RCOE STEM Update 9:00 – 9:30
• CDE STEM Update 9:30 – 9:45
• Orange Vista High School 10:00 – 11:40
• 10:00 – 10:30 am Description of Orange Vista HS STEM Program
• 10:40 – 11:40 am Classroom/Program Visitation
• Closing Remarks 11:40 – 12:00
The intent of these meetings is for district and school STEM leaders to come together to network over important STEM topics, share best practices, and discuss issues affecting STEM schools.
What does “Continuous Improvement” mean for our STEM/STEAM schools/programs?
STEM Essential Question of the Day
STEM Essential Question of the Day
EXCERPTED FROM Superintendent's Advisory Task Force on Accountability and Continuous
Improvement, May 2016
"We are equally committed to supporting and cultivating a system-wide
culture of continuous improvement in order to advance and achieve
these outcomes that relies on multiple measures to provide the
information necessary to engage in improvement efforts. This culture of
continuous improvement must infuse all parts of the system, including
continuous improvement for the system itself, through evaluative
mechanisms that allow us to learn from local experience and revisit the
indicators, tools, and systems of support we use to ensure they are
working as intended…The recommendations presented in this report
should not be considered an end point but rather a beginning point for
continuous improvement.”
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ar/documents/account-report-2016.pdf
RCOE STEM Update ● RCOE Web Page http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ar/documents/account-report-2016.pdf
● The 2016- 2017 School Year ●3 STEM Networking meetings
●Mtg 1 – Stokoe, December 14, 2016 Girls in STEM ●Mtg 2 – Western Center Academy, February 8, 2017 STEM Equity ●Mtg 3 – Orange Vista HS, April 12, 2017 STEM Continuous Improvement
● The 2017-2018 School Year ● Visit STEM Industry in our Area
● CDE STEM Symposium, December 10-11, San Francisco
A Warm Thank you our STEM Host, Orange Vista High School!!
STEMoment - Science
STEMoment - Technology
●Code Week - June 19-23, 2017 ●2017 Google Camp
○ July 26-27, 2017 - Register Here ○ Call for Presenters - Application Here
●Future Ready Institute ○ Renaissance Indian Wells Resort & Spa,
Palm Springs ○ August 3-4, 2017 - Register HERE for district
teams (https://goo.gl/Crcq6X)
Contact: Mike Leffin, [email protected]
https://goo.gl/iKb6al
https://goo.gl/huzIU0
STEMoment - Technology
● Ed Tech Coaches Network - May 4, 2017 ○ Register HERE
● ConnectED Summit 2017 Saturday, May 6, at Adelanto HS (event flyer)
● #IEedchat - Mondays @ 7:30pm
https://goo.gl/SEHOhx
https://goo.gl/eDYY3K
STEMoment- Engineering
STEMoment- Math
Snacks An Exploratorium Snack is a hands-on activity. Explorations of natural phenomena that teachers or students can make using common, inexpensive, readily available materials. Each snacks is divided into easy-to-follow sections that include instructions, advice, and helpful hints. Each one begins with a photo and/or video, a short introduction, and a list of materials. Also included are • Assembly instructions • How to use the activity • What’s going on – making connections
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Grants and Scholarships
CDE STEM Update ● Paula Evans, Education Programs Consultant
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Office
Professional Learning Support Division
California Department of Education
1430 N Street, Suite 4309
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 319-0600 Fax: (916) 323-2833
Our Host: Orange Vista HS
Closing Remarks
STEM Essential Questions of the Day
What does Continuous Improvement
mean for our STEM/STEAM
schools/programs?
THANK YOU to our host: Orange Vista High School
History of STEAM in Val Verde
Has changed over the years
Began 6-7 years ago
High schools
• Pockets of innovation
• Citrus Hill-Aquaponics
Vertical articulation
STEAM in Val Verde
Interdisciplinary and applied approach to learning where
rigorous academic concepts are coupled with real-world,
problem based learning.
STEAM in Val Verde
1. VVUSD STEAM believes VAPA education, either
through teaching basic art foundations skills or using an
artistic approach to solving a problem, is a critical component
of ingenuity, creativity, and innovation.
STEAM in Val Verde
2. VVUSD STEAM will create a culture of engineering for
all students that emphasizes ingenuity, creativity, and
innovation.
STEAM in Val Verde
3. VVUSD STEAM, although it can contain as part of its
program, is NOT an isolated class, project, or subject but an
educational approach with multiple programmatic
components including the integration of the arts as an
approach to teaching all content areas.
STEAM in Val Verde
4. VVUSD STEAM education recognizes that gender and
racial/ethnic gaps exist in STEM fields and address these
issues through strategic programmatic design.
STEAM
Vehicle for student engagement
• Inquiry
• Problem-based
• Project-based
• Arts integration
• Transdisciplinary
