STEM Leader Corps
Growing Leaders. Growing Capacity.
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.
Building a Culture of STEM Teaching and Learning
What is STEM 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:
- Ask deep real world questions
- Collaborate with their peers
- Arrive at meaningful conclusions
- Explore STEM careers
Growing Teachers and Administrators
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:
- A shared leadership model
- Robust STEM professional development, ongoing job embedded coaching & administrative leadership support
- Use of an exclusive STEM Instructional Progression
- Development of a trandisciplinary curriculum
Partnerships Team
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Transdisciplinary
"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
STEM Leader Corps 3-Year Growth Plan
Focus
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.
Focus
Project-Based Learning
Creating high-quality STEM experiences in "MY" classroom through multiple forms of inquiry, including project-based learning.
Focus
Trandisciplinary Teaching
Developing deeper-learning instructional strategies while collaborating with grade- level teams for the creation of innovative transdisciplinary units.
Create a Sustainable Capacity Building Model
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.
- Use the Plan-Check-Do-Act cycle to provide a continuous feedback loop and just-in-time support for teachers
- Provide participants with many opportunities to build their confidence and practice their skills before transferring them to their peers.
- Use multiple measures to evaluate progress, including the STEM Instructional Progression
See what else Discovery Education is doing with STEM
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