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FUSD Final Presentation Parker Thomas FUSE Fellow

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WHAT I HEARD PART ONE

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WHAT I HEARD IN 120 CONVERSATIONS

KEY FINDINGS • Manufacturers want: • Science, technology,

engineering, art, and math (STEAM) skills

• Creative problem-solving skills

• Familiarity with manufacturing

• Want to help • No frameworks to

engage with district

Manufacturers Parents Teachers Community Students

• Narrow Harvard/Stanford/Doctor/Lawyer/Engineer ideas of success

• Pressure comes from the culture

• Want to engage • Where frameworks

exist, parents engage

• Lots of grassroots innovation in classrooms

• Army of Irrepressibles • Apart from Project Lead

the Way (PLTW), no systemic approach to innovation or STEAM

• Many Community Based Organizations want to engage

• No frameworks to engage

• Figure out how to “DO” school

• Enormous pressure from parents and culture

• Already starting to do college cost/benefit

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College and

Career Ready

Agency (Choices)

Parent Engagement

Growth Mindset Authentic

Assessments (Feedback)

Learning with Purpose

21st Century Skills

Students Need:

Teachers Need:

Professional Development

Clear Strategy (What do we want students to know?)

Tools and Materials

Lessons and Projects

Community Support

Collaboration

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THE FUSD PLAN PART TWO

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OUR AREAS OF FOCUS You can’t do one piece without the others

Training for teachers to implement STEAM projects across the curriculum

Creating tools and spaces for STEAM projects

Creating an Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) aligned set of projects for each grade

Creating frameworks to easily engage with businesses and the broader Fremont community

Year 3

Year 2

Year 1

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PROJECTS AND LESSONS YEAR 3

• 4 Teachers 7.5 hours each

GOAL

Middle School (MS) Projects and Lessons (P&L) Tiger Team

Elementary Project Testing

Create + maintain project library

• 2 projects for grades 5-8 designed and tested

• Defined format for all STEAM projects • Carts or materials easily available for

each type of project • Coaches trained on projects

• K12 set of projects & tools aligned to NGSS • Teachers trained to implement projects • All projects in database

• K12 project scope + sequence • Graduate skills defined • 5 Projects per grade

Elementary P&L Tiger Team

• 2 projects K-4

High School (HS) P&L Tiger Team • 2 projects 9-12

HS Project Testing

MS Project Testing

Scale project library and tools

ACTIVITIES

GOAL GOAL

ACTIVITIES ACTIVITIES

RESOURCES RESOURCES RESOURCES

• Teacher collaboration and creation time • FUSE Fellow (facilitation)

• Teacher collaboration and creation time

• C&I facilitation time

YEAR 1 YEAR 2

• Teacher collaboration and creation time • Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) facilitation time

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COMMUNITY ECOSYSTEM

The district needs to build an ecosystem of partners to support this – and the capacity to support and leverage partners.

COMMUNITY

Ignited

Fixit Clinic

Ohlone College

Give Teens 20

Faith Based Orgs

Trade Unions

Rotary Clubs

CITY & COUNTY

Alameda County Library

MVROP

Fire Department

Public Works

Family Resource

Center

Parks and Recreatio

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WIB

NON PROFIT

EdLeader 21

Public Sediment

League of Innovative

Schools

Remake Learning

Fremont Education

Foundation

LVLUp

Pilot City

BUSINESSES

Genentech

LAM Research

Tesla

DJI

SE3D

Bay Area Circuits

Schmartboard

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WHERE WE ARE PART THREE

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FUSE FELLOWSHIP PROGRESS Deliverable

• Conduct a landscape analysis of partners and programs involved in the Maker Initiative • Identify and build relationships with key local business partners

• Create strategic plan for the Maker Education initiative – including organization and governance structures, resources and professional development needs, metrics of success, a timeline with deadlines, an initial budget, a sustainable funding plan, communication with neighboring districts on process and outcomes

• Create a work plan for promoting Maker Education – Explore with stakeholders the marketing opportunities that promote and support the developing Maker Education activities and potential partnerships with external partners and businesses.

• Develop a sustainable two-way communications plan to engage families, school staff, and the Fremont community

• Conduct outreach to teachers, administrators, students, and parents at the junior high level to identify programmatic possibilities in which to embed STEAM practices as schools begin to shift to a middle school model starting in 2018-19.

• Implement short-term “wins” that bring visibility and excitement for the new program – Identify and implement the most likely early “wins” that can be accomplished within the year to establish the new initiative and set a path toward sustained impact, including, if possible, a pilot partnership with an external partner. Support the development and institutionalization of structures and processes that reinforce and help sustain the collaboration between the city and the school district.

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FUSE FELLOWSHIP YEAR 2 Deliverable

Research, design and build the physical facility and programming for a community makerspace/innovation space on the second floor of Fremont Main Branch to support out of school learning time, professional development for teachers and connections between businesses and the community. This space will serve as a catalyst for and an example to future spaces in the community. Define and create the organizational infrastructure for the Fremont Learning Network, a collective impact organization focused on igniting engaging, relevant, and equitable learning practices for the entire community.