STEMM Academy

Baker College & Mott Community College SECEP Partnership

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• Development of the STEMM Academy Early College Program
• Two models: Traditional and CTE Blend
• Development of the Dryden Early College
• Facilitate the annual academic calendar
• Facilitate the annual orientation for STEMM Academy
• Facilitate multiple soft skill presentations to STEMM Academy students
• Co-facilitate quarterly STEMM Academy parent information nights
• Co- facilitate to STEMM Academy transition camp
• Co- facilitate end of year ceremony for graduates of the STEMM Academy
• Facilitated the marketing for the STEMM Academy:
  o    Posters
  o    Banners
  o    Brochures
  o    Website
  o    T-shirts
  o    Student information sessions
• General recruiting assemblies
• CTE Blend recruiting sessions
• Parent information nights
• News paper and radio information
• Facilitated the campus tours and provided lunches for:
  o    8th graders from LEAs
  o    10th graders from LEAs
  o    STEMM Academy
• Facilitated COMPASS testing for 10th graders
• Provide dual enrollment options: Concurrent and direct credit models
• Facilitate the academic advisement for 5th year students
• Co- facilitate 5th year seminar on success sessions
• Facilitated the student support and tutorial services on campus for 5th tear students
• Facilitated the development and implementation of the RS 1010 career readiness offered to all 10th graders in 3 districts
• Facilitated STEM camps for students
• Facilitated photonics demonstrations
• Attended all SECEP leadership meeting (principal)
• Facilitate SECEP counselors meeting @ Baker College
• Assist in managing day to day student issues with the Advisor
• Co-facilitated science teacher workshop with K-12 and college faculty
• Provided a technology integrated classroom workshop
• Attended MEMCA workshops
• Attended national workshops in New Jersey

Lapeer County SECEP Partnership

Overall:

• Brought 4 school district together
• Brought HS and MS’s together
• Development of STEM teams at each district
• Increased the college going culture at all the districts
• Impacted the instructional methodology
• STEM instruction principles – activity/hands-on
• STEM.org PD
• STEM skills in all disciplines
• Networking at national and state levels
• Strong post secondary partnerships
• Campus tours for 10th and 8th grade students
• Development of 2 EMC’s
• Development of a CTE model for EMC
• Recognition/ reinforcement of the rigor in CTE and college level applications
• Evaluation / recognition of all the college going experiences that is offered to students in high school: EMC, DE, CTE, & AP
• Math and science teacher PD
• 8th grade project workshop with 6 SECEP schools

Almont:

• STEM instructional at all levels
• PLTW @ HS
• Community partnerships
• PD for teachers: These include scientific modeling, argument driven inquiry and inquiry based instruction
• STEM Integration Team
• STEM extra-curricular offerings – Robotics
• Four college partnership collaborations: Baker College, Macomb Community College, University of Michigan (Flint), and Mott Community College

Dryden:

• EMC
• College readiness seminar 7-12
• MOUs with Baker College, Mott Community College, Ferris State University, and the University of Michigan-Flint.
• STEM Integration Team
• STEM related instruction
• Baker College RS 1010
• Competency based instruction – Summit Learning
• PD for teachers: These include scientific modeling, argument driven inquiry and inquiry based instruction

Imlay City:

• K-12 STEM project based instruction
•  PD for teachers: These include scientific modeling, argument driven inquiry and inquiry-based instruction
• STEM Integration Team
• Engineering/STEM night
• STEM-focused events at the elementary level
• STEM extra-curricular offerings – Robotics
• ICS set aside a 5-acre parcel of land for use as a “living lab” for our STEM students
• Baker College RS 1010 for 10th graders
• MOUs with Baker College, Mott Community College, and the University of Michigan-Flint.
• New course offerings Advanced Placement Environmental Science and Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles
• In-district peer coaching

North Branch:

• PD for teachers: These include scientific modeling, argument driven inquiry and inquiry based instruction
• PLTW @ HS Principles of Bio-Medical Science
• STEM project based instruction HS & MS
• Baker College RS 1010 for 10th graders
• STEM Integration Team
• MOUs with Baker College, Mott Community College, Washtenaw Community College and the University of Michigan-Flint.
• Near-peer College and Career Ready Advisor
• AP Chemistry class and the Organic Chemistry class curriculum are college curriculum