MSP Grant Kick-of

2.24.15

Agenda
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Revisit goal/objectives of the grant

Budget and alignment with activities
Dates for summer and school year
Recruiting teachers
Recruiting STEM Resource Teachers
Summer PD
STEM camp

Goals of the Grant

Develop teachers conceptual
understandings of mathematics
Align science and mathematics
instruction across grade levels and
the district
Develop mathematics extensions and
engineering modules that function as
applications of the science
curriculum

Budget and Alignment with

Activities

Personnel, salaries and sub-contracts

Travel
Supplies/Materials
Summer PD and teacher stipends
STEM Resource Teachers

Monthly stipend
After school meetings
Monthly release time
STEM camp

Participating classroom teachers

Summer stipends
After school release time
STEM camp

Dates
STEM Saturday recruitment
40 teachers
Trainers from other MSP or ITQ grant
Paid stipends, 5 hours

Summer PD with USI and Butler

faculty
5 days with faculty, July?

STEM camp
5 days with teachers, July?

Recruiting and Retaining

Teachers
Initial recruitment
55 teachers + 14 STEM Resource
Teachers
Ideally, spread across grade levels (K-8)
With these numbers it does not allow for
many teachers per grade level
What is the best way to structure
participation so that collaboration occurs?
Ideally STEM Resource teachers will come
from a variety of grade levels

Summer PD Content
Grade bands in morning, K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Work on mathematics content and
practices

Afternoon at grade level

Work on developing and aligning
mathematics extensions with science
curriculum
The goal is to view the mathematics
extensions as applications of the science
curriculum
These same lessons will be

School year follow up

After school meetings
PLC time
Release time for STEM Resource
Teachers
Dr. Flessners workshops

Evaluating and Measuring

Outcomes
Learning mathematics for teaching
MTEBI
Observations in classrooms and at
training