STEM Equity Pipeline

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STEM Equity Pipeline

• Mimi Lufkin Chief Executive Officer
• Howard Glasser Technical Assistant
• National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity
• Minnesota, October 12, 2009

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Project Overview
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Goals

• Build the capacity of the formal education
  community to provide high quality professional
  development on gender equity in STEM education
• Institutionalize the implemented strategies by
  connecting the outcomes to existing
  accountability systems
• Broaden the commitment to gender equity in STEM
  education

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Defining STEM

• Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
• Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
• Health Science
• Information Technology
• Manufacturing
• Transportation, Distribution and Logistics
• Architecture and Construction

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Professional Development

• Formal education community
• In-school programs
• Teacher-based
• Academic and Career and Technical Education STEM
  educators
• Train the trainer process
• Imbed the knowledge in existing professional
  development mechanisms

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Accountability

• Using existing accountability systems to inform
  program improvement efforts
• Perkins nontraditional measures for participation
  and completion in STEM related career cluster
  programs of study
• Student achievement data in STEM
• Student course taking behaviors in STEM

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The Five Step Process
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Outreach

• Increasing awareness of the need for diversifying
  the STEM workforce pipeline
• Gender and
• Race/Ethnicity
• Disability
• Creating collaborations with others to leverage
  the impact of the work

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Virtual Learning Community

• Public portal for the STEM equity community
• Listserv
• Organization Links, Articles, Resources, Reports
• Calendar of Events in STEM
• Webcasts, Webinars, Video, Podcasts, Power Points
• Online courses and Tutorials
• Five Step Program Improvement Process Training
  Materials
• Professional Development Needs Assessment
• Participating State Pages
• Expert portfolios and online request portal
• Extension Agent report portal

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Your Role

• Implementers
• Use what you have learned in your work with
  teachers and students
• Collaborators/Facilitators
• Work with your team to implement
• Extension Agents
• Share what you have learned with other educators

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