Wentzville School District

Presented by Libbey A. Yates and Karen R. Hill

2-NOV-2015

Introductions

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• Libbey A. Yates– Scientist

– Pfizer (St. Louis Campus)

– Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Co-chair

• Karen R. Hill– Wentzville School District

– Curriculum Coordinator

Agenda

• Introduce our Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Partnership

• Discuss the Benefits of a PLTW Partnership

• Identifying Industry and Community Partnerships

• Creating a Strategic Plan

• Bridging the PLTW Curriculum

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Project Lead the Way Partnership

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Project Lead the Way Partnership

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Agenda

• Introduce our Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Partnership

• Benefits of a PLTW Partnership

• Identifying Industry and Community Partnerships

• Creating a Strategic Plan

• Bridging the Curriculum

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• Create success advancing a student’s career path

• Exposure to Pfizer

• Give students a new perspective

• Give students a foundation

• Give back to the community

Industry/Community Benefits of PLTW Partnership

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Wentzville Benefits of PLTW Partnership

• Growing the next generation of leaders– Students Increase understanding of current STEM career opportunities

– Students are college and career ready and able to find high quality jobs – INTERDEPENDENCE

• Mentoring– Students have a role model

– Students make professional connections

• Create student confidence

• Encourages risk taking– Innovation plays an ever-increasing role in our technological lifestyle

• Pay it forward to the community

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Agenda

• Introduce our Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Partnership

• Discuss the Benefits of a PLTW Partnership

• Identifying Industry and Community Partners

• Creating a Strategic Plan

• Bridging the Curriculum

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Identifying PLTW Partnership in the Area

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• Academia

• Start-up

• Doctors

• Manufacturing

• Colleges

• IT

• Hospitals/medical

• 3D Printing

• Paramedics

• Museums

• Landscape/Nurseries

• Sales

Identifying Partnership Team Members

• Building a Partnership Team:

– Ask PLTW teachers to send an email invite.

– Use district website, eblasts, twitter, facebook, etc.

– Reach out to industry/community members with children in the district.

– Reach out to local industry that can recruit from your PLTW students.

– Keep a database of involved families.

Agenda

• Introduce our Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Partnership

• Discuss the Benefits of a PLTW Partnership

• Identifying Industry and Community Partnerships

• Creating a Strategic Plan

• Communication

• Bridging the Curriculum

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Write A Strategic Plan: Bridging the Curriculum

• PLTW Partnership Team Guidebook– Google Search to locate document

• Carnegie STEM Excellence Pathway – Meeting in St. Louis on 2/11/15 where we identified our 3 top goals.  Both of

our Chairpersons attended with us.

• Coordinator, lead teacher, and co-chairs had F2F discussions.

• Industry lead created the initial draft.

• Revised draft – Presented to the Partnership Team at May meeting date.  We received

commitment from additional team members at that meeting.

– http://tinyurl.com/oppqllr

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PLTW Strategic Plan TimeLine

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COMMUNICATION OUT

PLTW GUIDEBOOK

ID CHAIRPERSONCARNEGIE

COMMITMENT

PLAN

Talk to parents, Email, FB, twitter

Pick someone vested in the school district

Use this tool as a guide. This can be found through

Google

Meet with key stakeholders creating one vision for the

district

Draft 1, 3, and 5 year plan. Meeting with Directors and Co-

Chairs

Discuss plan at PLTW Partnership

meeting

APPROVAL

Sequence of Strategic Planning

Agenda

• Introduce our Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Partnership

• Discuss the Benefits of a PLTW Partnership

• Identifying Industry and Community Partnerships

• Creating a Strategic Plan

• Communication

• Bridging the Curriculum

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Communicate Effectively and Do Real Work

• The PLTW Team:

– Communicates dates of quarterly meetings

– Set district dates STEM Night, Career Fair

• Forms of Communication:– Meetings

– Distribution list

– Email multiple times

– Meeting times: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

– Virtual – Google Hangout – a new way to connect busy industry/community partners

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Communicating at PLTW Partnership Meetings

• Effective Partnership Meetings– Quarterly meetings

– Agenda driven

– Scribe – – Action Items

– Key dates

– Upcoming events

– Mentor Pairing

– Involve team in Capstone Showcase to allow industry/community members to provide feedback to students/teachers on inventions/projects

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Agenda

• Introductions

• Introduce our Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Partnership

• Discuss the Benefits of a PLTW Partnership

• Identifying Industry and Community Partnerships

• Creating a Strategic Plan

• Bridging the Curriculum

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Experience the World of

STEM

Sofia Davies

Engaging the Students through Inquiry Based Learning

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• PLTW career exposure component– Capstone mentors

• STEM Engages students in Content• Vocabulary

• Skills

• Foster Inquiry

• STEM Nights

• Play is the Highest Form of Research ~Albert Einstein

Be Innovative, Be flexible, Listen, Act

• Be Innovative: Take risks– Be willing to do things that do not feel like

“school”.

• Give up total control– Be flexible

– Empower Chairperson to identify work that needs to be done

• Understand the needs of the industry and higher education partners

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Student LeadCapstone Projects

The Big Rocks…

• Write A Strategic Plan

• Be Accommodating

• Have Partnership Do Important Work at the Meeting

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In Summary…Success in Supporting the Curricula

• In 2014-2015:– 1st year for Industry Co-chair positions

– 1st year for PLTW Teacher Leader

– Expanded STEM Nights to include 2 middle schools

– 1st year for STEM Olympics

– 1st year for PLTW Strategic Plan (extended out 5 years)

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Success in Supporting the Curricula Continued

• In 2014-2015 Continued:– Continued mentorships, capstone poster feedback and in-class

demonstrations

– WSD Prairie View Elementary Published in BIO June 2015, “Stabilizing, Planting seeds in STEM Ed: Get involved.”

– Industry/community speakers at Biomedical Conference (>30)

– Industry/community speakers at Engineering and Computer Science Conference (>30)

– Received the Missouri Project lead the Way Award for Outstanding Dedication and Service 2014-2015

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Acknowledgements

Community

WentzvilleIndustry

Cross Collaboration

Industry: Pfizer Monsanto Boeing MasterCard Sigma Chemical Co. Ameren Innovative Technology (ITEF) Raken Scott Roos

Jan Hendrickson Mike Zink Melissa Parker Dave Northcutt Myseum Mo Dept. of Conservation Washington University

Wentzville SD: Board of Ed Dr. Cain Dr. Klinginsmith Meghan Aydelott Matt Schulte Dr. Mantz Dr. McClain All PLTW students,

teachers, counselors and principals

Community:

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Thank you! Questions

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Thank you and Enjoy St. Louis