Increasing Graduation and College Enrollment Rates: The Texas High School Project The North Texas ST

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Increasing Graduation andCollege Enrollment
RatesThe Texas High School Project The North
Texas STEM Center

• Jim Scheurich
• NT-STEM Director Department Head
• Educational Administration and
• Human Resource Development

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Meaningful Change Educational Innovations

• Facilitating School and District STEM Reform in
  Schools and Districts
• Research-Based Professional Development
• Facilitating Project/Problem-Based Learning (PBL)
• Building Supporting Professional Learning
  Communities

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Facilitating School and District STEM Reform In
Schools and Districts

• The Centers Goal To assist schools and
  districts, primarily at the high school level,
• Improve science math teaching learning
• Support the teaching learning of science,
  technology, engineering, mathematics in a
  real-world, integrated fashion
• Initiate K-12 schools and districts focusing on
  engineering as a content area
• Contact us at 979-862-4666 to work with you

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Research-Based Professional Development

• Schools districts do most of their professional
  development in ways not supported by research on
  professional development
• Research-based professional development is
• 8-10 days in length 1 or 2 days doesnt work,
  but could be spread out over months
• Conducted for professional learning communities,
  not individual teachers
• Directly connected to what teachers are actually
  doing
• Maintained throughout the school year

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Facilitating Project/Problem-Based Learning (PBL)

• PBL is more interesting to students
• PBL connects students to the way mathematics and
  science are applied in the real-world
• With PBL, it is easy to integrate science and
  mathematics
• PBL promotes a deeper, applications-level, types
  of learning

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Building Supporting Professional Learning
Communities

• What is a professional learning community?
• A small group of teachers (3-8 teachers) working
  over time to improve teaching and learning
• Focus of work has to be on improving teaching and
  learning
• Shared construction of learning plans tests,
  solving persistent learning problems, etc.
• Classroom teaching learning becomes transparent
  to each other within the group
• Accountable conversations stay on focus to
  improve teaching and learning

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Please stay til the end of the summit

• An example integration of all of STEM,
• science, technology, engineering, math
• 3 00 p. m. Engineering Applications Using Math
  and Science Tools -Panel DiscussionApril
  Moon,Engineering Instructor, Waxahachie Global
  High School
• 345 p.m. Closing RemarksG. Kemble Bennett, Vice
  Chancellor and Dean, Dwight Look College of
  Engineering
• 4 p.m.  Summit Adjourns