STEM Equity Pipeline

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STEM Equity Pipeline

• sySTEM Conference
• Milwaukee, WI
• October 21, 2008

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NSF Extension Services Grants

• Unified program of change
• Consulting services within a certain community of
  practice
• Adapt exemplary projects, research-based learning
  tools, pedagogical approaches, and service or
  support programs
• facilitate the interpretation of research
  knowledge into practice
• Inform NSFs research agenda

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STEM Equity Pipeline Goals

• Build the capacity of the formal education
  community
• 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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Model
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State Teams

• 5 states in year one
• California
• Missouri
• Illinois
• Oklahoma
• Wisconsin

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State Teams

• 2 states added in year 2
• Iowa
• Minnesota
• 3 states added in year 3
• 3 states added in year 4
• 13 states over the life of the grant

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Intellectual Specialization

• Accountability Using Data to Drive Program
  Improvement
• The Five Step Process
• Professional Development - Implementing
  Effective Extension Services in the Formal
  Education Community

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STEM Equity Pipeline Project Methods

• Professional Development
• Consulting and Technical Assistance
• Virtual Web-based Professional Learning Community
• Best Practices Handbook

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Wisconsin Stem Equity Project

• Co Directors
• Barbara Bitters, Wisconsin Department of Public
  Instruction
• Karen Showers, Wisconsin Technical College System

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Events

• Initial Planning Meeting (February 2008)
• National Conference Wisconsin Team of Seven
  (April 6-10, 2008)
• First State Team Meeting and Five Step Process
  Training (June 11 and 12, 2008)
• Second State Team Meeting (September 23, 2008)

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State Project Work Plan

• Goal 1Build the capacity of the formal
  education community to implement research based
  approaches proven to increase the participation
  and completion of females, including those with
  disabilities, in STEM education.

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Goal 1

• Conduct Professional Development through existing
  conferences, workshops and organizational
  meetings
• Construct modules that can be delivered and
  viewed by people at any time
• Reach out to other projects and people to join
  the state team
• Participate in webinars and Virtual Learning
  Community

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Goal 2

• Institutionalize the strategies implemented by
  connecting the outcomes to existing
  accountability systems
• Conduct statewide data analysis of Perkins, WINSS
  or WTCS data, and Labor Market data and create
  short compelling fact sheets
• Work to align the secondary and post-secondary
  Perkins data systems
• Determine new ways to analyze data by economic
  development regions in the state
• Develop online mechanism for success story
  reporting on girls/women and underserved students
  in STEM in WI

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Goal 3

• Broaden the commitment to gender equity in STEM
  education
• Create and develop a state team to provide
  leadership within the seven economic development
  regions
• Connect with other initiatives, conferences, and
  organizations in the state.
• Build the gender and other equity commitment and
  competence within and through Wisconsin STEM
  initiatives, organizations and the public.

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Critical Initiatives

• The State Superintendents Biennial Budget
  Proposal for STEM
• Grants-1M, STEM academies 1.3 M, labs and
  Stewardship Fund-5 M, Teacher Loan Forgiveness
  Program .5 M
• Career Pathway Development PK-14
• Education Communication Board NSF grant to create
  a Wisconsin STEM portal and community education
  materials
• University STEM initiatives
• Business and Industry STEM Initiative
• Others????

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Wisconsin STEM and Career and Technical Education
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1 in 10 Jobs in Wisconsin are STEM
Source 2006-2016 Wisconsin Projections, Office
of Economic Advisors, Department of Workforce
Development
September 23, 2008
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STEM Jobs Account for 1 in 5 New Jobs Between
2006-2016
Source 2006-2016 Wisconsin Projections, Office
of Economic Advisors, Department of Workforce
Development
September 23, 2008
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How Many Job Openings will be in STEM Occupations
Between 2006-2016?
Source 2006-2016 Wisconsin Projections, Office
of Economic Advisors, Department of Workforce
Development
September 23, 2008
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STEM Jobs Have Higher Education Training
Requirements than All Other Jobs
14.4 13.7 18.1
Source 2006-2016 Wisconsin Projections, Office
of Economic Advisors, Department of Workforce
Development
September 23, 2008
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What is the Relationship of Career and Technical
Education to STEM

• STEM Science, Technology, Engineering,
  Mathematics
• Agricultural, Food Natural Resources
• Architecture and Construction
• Health Science
• Information Technology
• Manufacturing
• Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics

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What has been done?

• What has been done and can be done to encourage
  interest in and participation in STEM and STEM
  related careers?

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QUESTIONS?

• What has been done and can be done to encourage
  interest in and participation in STEM and STEM
  related careers?