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About the Series
The THSP Learning Community is a growing network of schools, centers, organizations and individuals committed to sharing knowledge and proven best practices that informs all interested in improving STEM education and careers and building college readiness.
Our mission: Sharing practices that work.
Our speakers: THSP grantees and interested colleagues across Texas and the U.S.
Our format: Web-based 90 minute seminars that will offer experiences, inspiration, ideas and dialog.
The talks: Designed to leverage work done by grantees around these themes -
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Mission-driven leadership
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School culture and design
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Student outreach, recruitment, selection, and retention
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Teacher leadership development, recruitment, selection
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Making STEM curriculum aligned and rigorous
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Instructional strategies, tech integration, assessment
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Strategic alliances – home, business & industry, higher education
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Sustainability, planning and performance management |
Return to THSP
Check back soon for the 2010 Spring Series Starting in February
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View Recorded Webinar for wonderful ideas and examples of student work!
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21st Century Literacy Skills Prepare Students for Global Citizenship
June 3, 2009 4:00 - 5:30 (Central)
At the International School of the Americas, students develop literacy skills in the context of an authentic, interdisciplinary, project-based global studies curriculum. Students are engaged in creating, collaborating, and communicating in various media for a multitude of audiences and purposes—addressing real-world problems through service as well as simulations, making meaning from grade-level travel experiences, sharing ideas with others via public performances and online publishing, reflecting on their own learning in portfolios, and so on. All of these experiences help students grow into global citizens ready for college, the workforce, and the world.
Presenters: Adele Barnett, junior English teacher; Kathy Bieser, principal; Brad Dehart, Dean of Instruction for English and Social Studies; Greg Johnston, junior U.S. History teacher; Honor Moorman, Internship and Service Learning Coordinator; Kathleen Pedder, freshman World Geography teacher; Lindsey Perret-McPherson, sophomore English teacher; Pamela Valentine, Global Art teacher and Technology Coordinator
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Archived Webinars
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Literacy's Role in College Readiness: Two Approaches in Plano ISD
- Pamela Clark, Jill Engelking, & Sara Bonser from Plano ISD
Taking the literacy connection seriously, Plano ISD has initiated two programs that expose students to reading and writing assignments like those they will encounter after high school.
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Placing Learning in the Student's Hands
-Tony Vincent - Learning in Hand
-Marcy Voss - Boerne ISD
Tony Vincent (learninginhand.com) and Marcy Voss from Boerne ISD explore innovative instructional uses for iPODS and other handheld devices.
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Advanced Placement Courses - Increasing Potential for Success?
-Paul Sanders, The College Board
-Jennifer Gigliotti-Labay, Rice University's School of Con't Studies
-Robert Dennison, O'Donnell AP Teacher of the Year
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THSP FIRST Robotics Competition
John Shellene, FIRST's North Regional Executive Director, Lindsey Weldon and Janet Butler introduce the FIRST program to a select group of grantees who will participate in the 08-09 FIRST Robotics Competition.
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It Takes More than Test Scores to Improve a School
Dr. Bernhardt will share what data are important for continuous school improvement and how effectively using all data can make a difference.
Moving Data Analysis Results Into a Plan That Gets Implemented
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Spring Branch ISD's Collegiate Challenge Program
Partnering with community members as mentors, Spring Branch ISD developed an innovative program called Collegiate Challenge that has maximized the opportunity for over 225 first generation, low-income, and/or minority high school juniors and seniors to attain college enrollment and scholarships.
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KIPP Aspire Academy Mathematics Program
Joyce Boubel shares the keys to KIPP Aspire's math success: developing lessons around student questions, encouraging math discussions and vocabulary development, and preparing students for successful problem-solving. KIPP Aspire is a THSP Exemplar Program Grantee. Recorded Session and Resources |
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Talent Development at IDEA Public Schools
Martin Winchester shares how IDEA trains, develops, and promotes top people to ensure a cadre of leaders at all levels. The IDEA Leadership Cadre Program is a THSP Exemplar Program Grantee.
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A Strategy for Success: Concept Attainment
Presenters Mandy Biggers & Susan Talkmitt - Center for Integration of Science Education and Research (CISER) – Texas Tech University explored the various programs at CISER, including their traveling labs and concept attainment. CISER is a THSP Exemplar Grantee.
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Focusing on the “T’ in STEM – What are the implications for educators?
Presenter Sam Zigrossi provided a brief review the technology advances over the last 70 years, their contribution to our society, and then a discussion of the current and future technologies and their implications to education. Topics included
Historical contribution of Technology to society and its impact on workforce
A glimpse of some of the current and future technologies and their potential impact on the workforce
Discuss how a STEM focused education can help students prepare for the workforce that will be unlike any thing we have experienced
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The Texas PreFreshman Engineering Program (TexPREP) at UT, San Antonio
Presenter, Dr. Rudy Reyna shared information about the award-winning TexPrep, a challenging academic program designed to motivate and prepare middle and high school students for success in advanced studies leading to careers in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM). Included by the Bayer Corporation in their BEST Practices in K-12 Science Education Compendium, TexPrep is also a THSP Exemplar Grantee.
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Profile of a T-STEM Academy: Two T-STEM Academies Offer a View
Tina Dellinger – Corpus Christi STEM Academy (CCISD) Susan Henderson – Berkner STEM Academy (Richardson ISD)
The mission of T-STEM Academies is to develop school models that provide a rigorous, well-rounded, education with outstanding science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instruction. Current academy models are small learning communities, schools-within-schools, new traditional and charter schools and T-STEM Early College High Schools. Two T-STEM Academies will share best practices in STEM teaching and learning. |
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The Infinity Project |
Engineering: The Infinity Project
This first webinar for 2008 will examine engineering in the high school classroom. Dianna Rey from the Infinity Project, a THSP Exemplar developed by the Southern Methodist University School of Engineering and Texas Instruments will present a program overview. T-STEM Academy leaders Eric Creeger and Mauricio Dominguez will share how the Infinity Project fits into the STEM curriculum at their Academies. |
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