STEM Curriculum Organization

STEM K12 12: School/program provides high-quality STEM courses and curriculum aligned to recognized standards and organized into interdisciplinary frameworks.

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Impact Narrative:

Our current theme is “Building Engineers for the Future” with that in mind, we utilize the grade-level content standards, the engineering design process, and crosscutting concepts, along with problems we currently face in our community, to drive our PBLs. 

Kindergarten through fifth-grade teachers participates in weekly PLCs across 4 content areas to unpack standards and learning targets, determine success criteria, develop integrated lessons, plan PBLs, and other inquiry-based learning activities. 

Areas of Strength:

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Areas of Opportunity:

Over the past two years, teachers have continually improved in developing integrated PBL plans; however, there is an opportunity for improvement as it relates to the leadership team developing a plan to catalog, share and store PBL curriculum, and procedures that will safeguard sustained program implementation.

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Initiatives/Actions:​

• Students engage in two  Project - Based Learning experiences each school year.

• Each PBL integrates Reading/ELA, Math, Science and includes learning targets in all subject areas.

• PBL Unit plans are reviewed and revised for clarity and alignment to grade-level standards.