A system to scale professional learning and leadership.
STEM Leader Corps is a three-year system for professional learning and leadership intentionally designed to build and sustain a culture of STEM teaching and learning.
In a STEM learning environment, powerful critical thinking and exploration practices commonly used in science, technology, engineering and math classrooms will be drawn across disciplines and connected by a common or transdisciplinary theme, allowing students to:
STEM Leader Corps develops and nurtures teachers and administrators as they build a culture around STEM teaching and learning with a multi-dimensional solution that is sustained through:
"The idea of transdisciplinary literally means beyond all the disciplines but connected to all the disciplines by a unifying issue
or topic of inquiry."
Basarab Nicolescu
The Transdisciplinary Evolution of Learning
The Student-Centered Classroom
Building highly effective student-centered STEM environments through the development of teacher leadership skills tied to a schoolwide learning- lab culture.
Project-Based Learning
Creating high-quality STEM experiences in "MY" classroom through multiple forms of inquiry, including project-based learning.
Trandisciplinary Teaching
Developing deeper-learning instructional strategies while collaborating with grade- level teams for the creation of innovative transdisciplinary units.
STEM Leader Corps is designed to create a sustainable capacity building environment that allows teachers and administrators to grow a culture of STEM teaching and learning.
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