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Best Practices for Increasing Business & Industry Partnerships

Missouri PLTW ConferenceOctober 27, 2012

St. Louis

Lee’s Summit School District

GTT program in all 3 middle schools PLTW Engineering Students

• IED – 4 sections• POE – 2 sections• CEA – 1 section

Offered at Summit Technology Academy• DE/CIM – half day program (2 hrs 5 min)• EDD – half day program first sem only

PLTW Biomedical Sciences• PBS – 3 sections at each high school• HBS – 4 sections at each high school

Offered at Summit Technology Academy• MI – half day program (1st sem)• BI – half day program (2nd sem)

Collaboration Efforts

Students from IED, POE, PBS, HBS tour the Academy

Teachers do vertical collaboration as part of the curricular team

STA Portrait 372 students enrolled from 18 area

comprehensive high schools

87% of 2011 graduates attend 2-4 year college

83% of those graduates in 2011 reported continuing education related to training

86% passed a Technical Skill Assessment

Professional Learning Community

Mission, Vision, Collective Commitments - • Commitment to learner-centered

education and inquiry-based approached to teaching

• Commitment to developing a learner profile of a successful student

• Commitment to responsible actions within and beyond the school

4 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONSThese guide the work at STA

WHAT DO WE EXPECT STUDENTS TO LEARN? National Curriculum

HOW WILL WE KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE LEARNED? Data

HOW WILL WE RESPOND TO STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT LEARNING? Pyramid of Intervention

HOW WILL WE RESPOND WHEN THEY ALREADY KNOW IT? Pre Assessments, Differentiated Instruction

Technology Centers That Work

Culture of high expectations Improvement model based upon

HSTW framework of goals & key practices to improve student achievement

Site development workshop Action plan, focus on literacy &

numeracy

Work-based Learning

TCTW outlines what makes a quality work-based learning program• Classroom and work-site assignments

that are correlated to career field• Work-site experiences connected to

career goals• Work-site mentor

Pre-Professional Nursing

State-of-the Art Medical Simulator

Cisco Networking Academy

St. Lukes East

Pre-professional Educator Cadet

Partner with Elementary Schools

Industry Outreach Efforts

Advisory Teams

Career Pathway Teams are organized around 6 areas• Arts & Communication• Business Management & Technology• Health Services• Human Services• Industrial & Engineering Technology• Natural Resources

Invite core teachers, CTE teachers, counselors, administrators and industry experts to your meetings

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Career Events

Centered around enrollment time Student Professionalism Conference

Professional Development for Teachers

Devote time to let teachers develop partnership with industry experts• Agenda created by teacher and experts• Report back to all staff

Meet and Greet

Shorter time-frame to just network with business community members• Single purpose event• Exchange business cards and allow time

for each to share

Roundtable Discussion with Specific Industry Groups

“Placement” discussions One or two questions Take notes Leave with “next steps”

Classroom Project Partners

Juried panel to provide feedback to projects• Save the date notifications early in

semester• Easy-to-use feedback form for visitors to

use

Digital Electronics/Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Computer Integrated Manufacturing declared a P.R.I.M.E. site

Engineering Design & Development

Industry partnerships a must.

Engineering Field Experience – PLTW best practice.

Where academics

converge with skills

where

professionals

receive

ideas from

STUDENTS!

Showcase Events

KC STEM Alliance – EDD showcase

Robotics Competitions

IED Competitions

Biomedical Science

Biomedical Science

Five-minute mentoring activity• Contact local hospital• 5-minutes with each professional staff

person

Biomedical Innovations – science poster projects• Statistical research

Re-design an Emergency Room

Biomedical Innovations – all project-based learning

Contact Information:

Elaine Metcalf, EdSDirector, Summit Technology

AcademyDistrict PLTW Coordinatorelaine.metcalf@leesummit.k12.mo.us

816-986-3415