Davie High STEM Center -A Community of Adventurous and Purposeful Thinkers Meeting Challenges with Confidence-

Davie High STEM Center

-A Community of Adventurous and Purposeful Thinkers Meeting Challenges with Confidence-

STEM?

Science Technology

Engineering Math

School ReformStrategies

That

Engage the

Mind!!!

Common Instructional Framework

Collaborative Group Work

Writing to Learn

Literacy Groups

Questioning Scaffolding

Classroom Talk

The Design Process

“STEM provides a great opportunity to learn how to work with other individuals in a well organized manner. It is a challenge at times, but that’s ok. You won’t learn anything if you’re not challenged.” —Chace Lagle

The Early Days2008 – The Mebane Challenge

2010 – Robotics in elementary and middle school levels

2011 – As a result of the focus on technology in education, DCS was approached by North Carolina New Schools to become a member of the STEM Affinity Network of NC high schools.

2012 – After a year of analysis and research, DCS submitted a final proposal for the structure of a STEM Center in the larger Davie High School. Then the real work began…

2012-2013 First STEM Center Class

*Application process (criteria made accessible to 85% of incoming freshmen)

*Community awareness

*Middle school collaboration

*Targeted professional development on and off-site/ training led by New Schools

*Funding to plan and structure the program, laptops and iPads for the STEM Center and expenses related to off-site professional development

Early Days and Development

2013-2014 – Extension of STEM pedagogy to middle school level

Beginning of partnership with CERTL (Center for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Learning – WFBMC)

STEM Pipeline Summer Camp – grant funded to prepare middle school students for problem-based learning and collaborative group work.

Broken Squares Protocol

Your task:

Your team will have completed the task when each member of the team has a perfect 6x6 square in front of him.

Protocol Rules No member may speak.

No member may signal in any way that he wants someone else’s piece of the puzzle.

No member may take a piece of the puzzle from any other member.

No member may place pieces in the center.

Pieces must be offered directly to other group members.

Lots of combinations are possible, but only one solution results in five perfect 6x6 squares.

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Facilitator’s Observations

Who is willing or unwilling to give away pieces of the puzzle?

Does anyone finish his own puzzle and then check out of the process?

Who is actively engaged in putting the pieces together?

What is the level of frustration and anxiety? Is there a turning point at which members in the

group begin to collaborate? Does anyone violate the rules by pointing or

talking?

Protocol’s Purpose

Teaches students purposeful, collaborative group work

Puts kids out of their comfort zoneBuilds collaborative skills for

subject-based complex tasks later in the year

Solution to Broken Squares

“I have learned that problem-solving requires a

lot of thinking.” —Tori Atkins

2013-14 STEM Center Plan

1. The STEM team acts as a collaborative community.

2. The STEM team uses the design process to support purposeful learning.

3. The STEM team enables students to take responsibility for the outcomes of their learning.

2014-15 Impact Plan The STEM Center has an organized and

systematic plan for advisories and other support systems to offer personalization and to foster college and career readiness.

The STEM Center will use collaboration to form learning partnerships that will promote college and career readiness.

The STEM Center has clarified leadership roles and collaborative procedures for the STEM Center staff to function more effectively as a team.

STEM Center Identity Goals 1. Personalization

2. Metacognition

3. Collaboration

4. College and Career Readiness

“I love that we have the opportunities of Lunch and Learn and enrichment trips and all that stuff.” —Taylor Miller

Davie Historic Tour

Catawba Center for the Environment

Team-building trip! Rising 9th, rising 10th, Pipeline students Families invited!

Dash into STEM

Hauser Creek Farm

This Summer’s Enrichment

“I have learned a lot about college prep and how and what to do before it’s too late, unlike my friends who are not in STEM.” —Kayla Moore

Lunch and LearnDirector of Media Relations…Chief Technology Officer…Engineering Product Line

Manager…Surgeon…Lead Guidance Counselor…Registered Nurse…Humane Society…Principal Design Engineer…Project Manager…Event Planner…Clinical Nurse Manager…

Bridge Design Engineer…Outreach Coordinator

“You have to be able to really think and ask questions. You have to be a good listener.” —Spencer Wilson

“In STEM you have a voice.” —Mary Ellen Lewis

“We do a lot of critical thinking. The teachers answer your questions with questions.” —Keyla Torres

“We are stronger together than by ourselves, but we must still be able to think for ourselves.” —Brooke Summers

“On projects, we get constructive criticism and have to think to improve our work.” —Ze’Mora Cockerham

Rising Freshmen Kick-OffDASH into STEM!August 15th6:00-7:30 PM Pizza Meet your peers Meet your teachers Design Process Activities

2013 Kick-Off

2013 Kick-Off

STEM Distinction GradGrad Cords/STEM Distinction Diploma Stamp

Section 1 Shadowing Section 2 Campus Visits Section 3  Summer Enrichment Section 4  Volunteer Experience Section 5  College Portfolio Section 6  Lunch and Learn Section 7 Senior Resume Section 8 Adequate Academic Progress

STEM Ambassadors—Developing Leadership

72 Hour Coat Drive and Birthday in a Box

Community Health Fair

“The STEM experience differs because we work out the ‘whys’ not just the ‘hows’.” —Eli Wayda

PD with Middle Schools/Each Other/New

Schools

The Future…*Teachers who are beginning externships

*Housing prioritized for student teachers in STEM fields

*Career and College Pathways in health related areas

*WFIRM partnership – Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine

*Wake Forest Baptist Health partnership Job shadowingInternshipsSpeakers for Lunch and LearnsField trip opportunities

“STEM: The most hard-working fun you will ever have in class; you learn something new everyday.” —Sarah Buie

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