STEM Leader Corps
Growing Leaders. Growing Capacity.
A system to scale professional learning and leadership.
STEM Leader Corps is a four-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 4-Year Growth Plan
Focus
Building highly effective robust student centered environments through the development of teacher leadership skills tied to a school wide learning lab culture.
Focus
Developing high quality STEM experiences in “MY” classroom through multiple forms of inquiry including project-based learning.
Focus
Developing robust critical thinking instructional strategies while collaborating with grade level teams for the creation of robust transdisciplinary units.
Focus
Implementing sustainable practices to bring depth to teacher practice, emphasized through integration of parallel initiatives, instructional strategies and continued community connections.
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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