A Family Engagement Panel: STEM at Home: A Collaborative Approach to Engaging Families
A panel focused on programs that bring STEM directly into the home to engage families. Programs featured include: Math in the Mail and Futuros Radiantes.
“STEM Starts Early” Authors Present findings on SLECoP Early Learning Webinar
This webinar was made possible by introductions from the Queens, NY STEM Ecosystem – NYSCI NEighbors. It was presented on behalf of the STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice Early Learning resource group in March 2017. Webinar from the authors of “STEM Starts Early” a study seeking to understand the challenges and opportunities in STEM learning for our youngest learners.
EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT – MATH IN THE MAIL
Six times each year, the Great Lakes Bay STEM Ecosystem sends math kits home to the families of 3 year-olds living in families considered to be low-income. Math in the Mail aims to remove anxiety for parents who fear that they aren’t skilled with math. “It’s also seeks to boost engagement between the parent and child,” says Lori Flippin, STEM Initiative leader for the Great Lakes Bay Region STEM Alliance. Flippin says that since the program’s inception the ecosystem is always looking at its effectiveness and areas where it can improve. “We were concerned that there were populations – especially in one particular county – where the parents may not have the abilities to use those kits,” says Flippin, explaining that they are now working with families in rescue missions and homeless shelters.
Great Lakes Bay Regional STEM Alliance
Great Lakes Bay Region STEM Ecosystem presents a number of initiatives to support STEM learning opportunities for families and young children. Examples will include:
Big Data for Little Kids
A project to design and develop a curriculum to deepen understanding of how young children between 5 and 8 years-old define, collect, represent, and interpret data and how parents engage with children in data inquiry activities in informal learning environments.
Big Science Little Hands
Big Science for Little Hands activities were designed for early childhood educators working with children between 3 and 5 years-old to promote opportunities for hands-on science exploration. Each theme includes small- and large-group activities which can be adapted to any environment.
STEM in Early Childhood – Why It’s Important to STEM Learning Ecosystems
Why It’s Important to STEM Learning Ecosystems Why is early childhood STEM education significant? What is the importance of adopting a larger-life, ecosystem perspective when looking at early childhood STEM
Questions to Form Our Identity
“The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by asking it as it does by the answering.” – David Whyte For those who
Partnering to Change the GAME ~ Infusing STEM into Football Camps
By Kathleen Schofield, Executive Director, Northeast Florida’s STEM2 Hub On a sunny Saturday morning, the last place you would expect to find our STEM team would be at a football
Highway to STEM Begins with a Good On Ramp
By Xan Black, Executive Director of the Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance The Journey Thanks to the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, the Overdeck Foundation and the Harvard PEAR Institute,
Family Engagement Focus at Spring 2019 Convening
Members of STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice from across the world recently gathered in historic New Orleans to share ideas and best practices in STEM education. Here is a
Sharing Stories: Many Have Personal Accounts of STEM ‘Slights’
By Veronica Gonzales, Deputy Director of the STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice and Alyssa Briggs, Director of the STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice When we shared some