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Think about your favorite letter of STEAM…and WHY? Inspiration?? Why? Did someone inspire you?

The Good, The Bad, The Reality


Cari Kupec, MSAP Project Director 2013Brevard, FloridaMSA Region 3 Director

Context

CONTEXT75,000 students9000 employees51.76 % F&R LunchEastern Seaboard, FloridaNASA, KSC


Imagine…

Rubik’s cube: A Question, Waiting to Be Answered

imagine

http://youtube.com/v/W1K2jdjLhbo


Today’s Agenda

● Well rounded grant teams

● 2013 vs 2016

● 2013 progression

● MSA and new language

● Wrap-Up -Questions


Data Mining and Analysis

Meet with Faculties

NIMSL

R & D Day

Innovation Day

Pitch Day


Partnership Alignment

Discussion with Minnesota schoolsMeeting with InSciEdData MiningSelection of SchoolsDream Big Presentations

MAGNET SCHOOLS DREAM BIG

MAGNET SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM GRANT

STEPHANIE ARCHER, DIRECTOR

CARI KUPEC, PROJECT DIRECTOR

ROBIN WARD, GRANT DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

MAY 2015

2016 MAGNET SCHOOLS

GUESS WHO?

NIMSL Training

Magnet Schools of America

Two day pillars workshop


Day One “2016 R & D Day”

Purpose: Be prepared for the think tank! 2013 MSAP schools will coach 2016 schools to research and develop the project design section. Your team will be challenged to develop creative ways of promoting student interaction, improving academic achievement for all students, and increasing parental decision making and involvement. Research golden thread reforms such as: AVID, The Leader in Me, InSCIed Out, Math Solutions, STEAM, CTE, and/or other scientific research based reform strategies. Research theme based schools for ideas under STEAM / STEM education. Create a “Theory of Change” logic model for your school’s design. Bring: STEAM team, mobile devices, SIP, student data, and any information you have already researched (quotes, flyers, websites, etc) Exit Slip: At the end of the R&D day team members will complete a team exit slip in order to gather names and titles of district staff you need to assist / approve your plan, to answer additional questions, and to obtain feedback on how the facilitators can better assist 2016 teams. Team Next Steps: Meet with faculty, Administrators, and other stakeholdersGet prepared for Day Two: INNOVATION DAY!

Engineering Design ProcessThe steps taken to write

a grant closely align with

the Engineering Design Process.


Team “Toxic School Factors” Engineering Design Activity

Situation: There has been a toxic invasion of factors that can take a school down! Your mission is to work as a team with only the materials provided to transfer the toxic factors from the container located in the contaminated area to the container located in the decontaminated area. The transfer must be made by a minimum of four team members carrying out the team plan. If any part of one of the team members body crosses into the contaminated area their position must be taken by another team member. Successful transfer is achieved when the toxic school factors are transferred out of the container in contaminated area into the container located in the decontaminated area.

Problem: Toxic school factors must be transferred from the contaminated area to the decontaminated area.

Brainstorm: Work as a team to discover possible ways to successfully make the transfer

Plan: Sketch out the plan and use the materials to design a method for the transfer

Create: Use the prototype your team created to make the transfer

Improve: Reflect on the execution of your plan and make suggestions for improvement.

A Closer Look At Toxic School Factors

● These are just a few of the many factors that have an adverse impact on schools.

● These factors, if left unaddressed, most likely will contribute to a toxic school environment.

● These are the factors that the Magnet School Assistance Program will address.

T-Chart


MSAP Quality of Project Design Re-Cap...

At the summer NIMSL training we

looked at the entire MSAP

application.

Today’s focus is on the Quality of

Project Design Section that is

worth 30 of the 100 points for the

application scoring.

(c) Quality of Project Design (30 Points)(i) Promote desegregation, including

how each proposed magnet school program will increase interaction among students of different social, economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds;

(ii) Improve student academic achievement for all students attending each magnet school program, including the manner and extent to which each magnet school program will increase student academic achievement in the instructional area or areas offered by the school; and

(iii) Encourage greater parental decision-making and involvement.

Time for Research and DevelopmentOur Goal: To develop

programs, concepts, and

methods grounded in

research for a “Theory of

Change” designed to attract

students to the Magnet Program at your school!


2013 MSAP Schools Vision/Mission Theory of Change Concepts for:Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics

STEAM

Golfview Magnet Elementary School

“STEAM Academy… Forging Full STEAM Ahead”

Stone Magnet Middle School“S.T.E.A.M.@STONE:

Innovations in Interdisciplinary Education”

McNair Magnet Middle School“Touching the World Through

Inspiration and Invention”

Palm Bay Magnet High School “Academy of Engineering and

Computer Science & Academy of Health and Public Affairs”

Preparing students to UNITE, IGNITE, INSPIRE...empowering them with learning skills for career-college readiness, a competitive global market, and active citizenship in the interconnected 21st century world.

Empower innovative, collaborative, critical thinkers with interdisciplinary curriculum incorporating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics to meet the challenges of our global society.

Making each student a winner by preparing an innovative, arts-infused curriculum design and state of the art education technology through involvement of students, parents, staff, and the community, so that each student reaches maximum potential to become productive individuals in today's changing society.

Providing high quality, innovative instructional programs promoting choice, equity and diversity, and academic excellence for all students by offering high interest STEAM related programs that excite and prepare students to continue to a higher education or be viable to directly compete in the world workforce.

2013 and 2016 MSAP Supports Magnet Schools of AmericaNational Institute Magnet School Leadership (NIMSL)Magnet Schools Assistance Program Center. MSAP CenterCulturally Competent Teaching, Dr. Lisa WilliamsChallenge based learning / Problem based learningBoston Museum of ScienceBoston Arts AcademyBracken STEAM AcademyAVIDLeader in MeInSCIed Out (Mayo Clinic)STEAM, Education Closet.comSchool TurnaroundMcRelISTEAppleMath Solutionse-beam

The Logic Behind “Theory of Change”

Theory of Change is essentially a comprehensive description and illustration of how and why a desired change is expected to happen in a particular context. It is focused in particular on mapping out or “filling in” what has been described as the “missing middle” between what a program or change initiative does (its activities or interventions) and how these lead to desired goals being achieved. It does this by first identifying the desired long-term goals and then works back from these to identify all the conditions (outcomes) that must be in place for the goals to occur.

Seriously, no one remembers the

Theory of Change behind launching our 24/7 live hamster webcam?!!!!

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