Design Principles

• All children need and deserve a chance to reach their potential.
• Learning doesn’t and can’t happen in silos.
• Society needs to prepare the next generation to lead and thrive in a world dominated by technological advances and more intentionally cultivate pathways for post-secondary success.
• A strong STEM education equips students with knowledge, skills and dispositions that are necessary for a fast-paced, information-driven world.

And the STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice is governed by the following Design Principles:

• Value and promote equity, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of individual and collaborative decision-making.
• Pursue a collective advocacy approach to those who influence policy at all levels, including federal, state, regional and local policy to support a STEM for ALL agenda with unique supports for each learner.
• Deepen and broaden the understanding of what is working and why using multiple instruments that measure the potential and promise of SLECoP initiatives.
• Promote best practices, shared resources, peer learning, leadership development and strong internal and external communications.
• Seek opportunities that provide cross-cutting and aligned STEM education, workforce and community economic development options.
• Embed a system of onboarding and coaching, rooted in the collective experiences of the SLECoP, for new and existing ecosystems.
• Organize through collaboration, transparency and democratic ideals to sustain the reciprocal benefits of the Community of Practice.