Maintaining a district level Science Professional development system

Without financial impact

California Mathematics and Science Partnership –Partners for Outstanding Science Education (CaMSP-POSE)

Jarred Shell, MS.Ed.

California Mathematics and Science partnership (camsp)

learning network meetingSacramento, California

April 4-5, 2011

build and support partnerships between Camsp-POSe and the

surrounding community.• Teaching, Helping,

Inspiring & Nurturing Kids (THINK Together)– Funding for student field

trips and materials

– Afterschool and summer programs

• Discovery Science Center– Teacher professional

development

– Teacher and Student field trips

– Student outreach

• Alliance for Education– Business connections

– Teacher professional development

• National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR)– Physics day

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Educator Resource Center (JPL ERC)– Teacher professional

development

– Student outreach

• Water Education Water Awareness Committee (WEWAC)– Teacher grants

– Field Study locations

– Teacher materials

– Presentations for teachers and students

SustainabilityFunding opportunities

• Saturday Make-Up Academy (SMUA)

– Students must have an absence

• Excused or Unexcused

• Attend a 4 hour standards based make up session on a non-instructional day

• After School Education and Safety (ASES)

– 21st Century Community learning centers

• Attend a 3 hour standards based make up session on a non-instructional day

Proposal– STEM Super Saturdays• Pilot

– 3 Science based events– K-2nd, 3rd-5th, 6th-8th

– Discovery Science Center

• Program Expansion– 9 STEM based events

» 3 per trimester– K-2nd, 3rd-5th, 6th-8th

– Teachers develop lessons with Partner» IHE, Leadership,

Business– Teachers deliver lesson to

students– Teachers and Partner

modify lesson if necessary