TSTEM Network

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THSPs Mission

• All Texas high school students will have the
  opportunity to achieve their highest educational
  potential and promote state competitiveness in
  the 21st Century.

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THSPs Vision

• All Texas students will graduate high school
  ready for college and career success and prepared
  to be contributing members of the community.

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THSPs Public-Private Alliance

• Founding Organizations
• Texas Education Agency
• Governors Office and the Texas Legislature
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
• Communities Foundation of Texas
• Partnering Organizations
• Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
• National Instruments
• Greater Texas Foundation

Note CFT has no authority and does not serve as
manager or fiscal agent for TEA funds, nor does
TEA have any oversight or authority over CFT or
any other private funds
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THSP focuses on high need areas

• Urban areas and Texas-Mexico border
• First-generation college students
• Economically disadvantaged students

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T-STEM Goals

• Create 35 T-STEM Academies serving 20,000
  students
• Establish T-STEM Centers geographically dispersed
  throughout Texas
• Develop statewide best practices STEM Network
• Increase pool of highly qualified STEM teachers
  and school leaders
• tstem.thsp.org

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T-STEM Academies
North Irving Academy Harmony Science Waxahachie
ISD Dallas ISD (Conrad HS) Richardson ISD Peak
Academy-Williams Prep Carrollton-Farmers Branch
ISD Uplift

• Design
• Mix of public charter schools, traditional public
  schools
• Stand alone or school-within-a-school
• Approximately 100 students per grade
• Secondary schools
• Serve a population with a majority representation
  of high-need students
• Open enrollment, non-selective, admission by
  lottery

Panhandle New Deal ISD Harmony Science
Central AJ Moore - Waco ISD Texas BioSci - Temple
College Manor ISD Rapoport Harmony Science
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West Burnham Wood Harmony Science Canutillo
ISD El Paso ISD
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South Harmony Science North East ISD
Corpus Christi IDEA Academy (2) La Sara
ISD Valley View ISD School of Excellence Galveston
ISD
East Carver HS - Aldine ISD YES Prep SE Harmony
School of Excellence KIPP Houston Harmony Science
(3) Longview ISD Fruitvale ISD Houston ISD
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Early Innovators 2006 Academies 2007
Academies 2008 Academies
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T-STEM Centers

• Design
• Physically located in universities and ESCs
• Serve the education needs of local areas
• Provide expertise across the state

• North
• North Texas STEM
• Texas AM
• Dallas ISD
• ESC Region 10

• Panhandle
• Texas Tech T-STEM
• Texas Tech
• Lubbock ISD
• ESC Regions 14 -18

• East
• East Texas STEM
• UT Tyler
• TX AM Texarkana
• ESC Regions 5-8 6
• ISDs in NE Texas
• Southeast Regional STEM
• UT Medical Branch
• Rice
• Texas State
• NASA
• ESC Regions 3-5
• Houston Museum of Natural Sci
• 9 ISDs (including Houston,
• Galveston, Cypress
• Fairbanks)

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• West
• El Paso T-STEM
• UT El Paso
• 12 El Paso area school districts
• Region 19

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• Central
• Transformation 2013
• Region 13 in Austin (partnering w/)
• ESC Region 20 in San Antonio
• UT Austin College of Engineering
• San Antonio ISD
• Taylor ISD
• Dana Center at UT Austin
• Providing support to centers and academies, as
  well as other schools across Texas

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• South
• El Centro del Futuro
• Region One (partnering w/)
• UT Pan Am
• 13 school districts, and the
• UT Dana Center

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What is STEM Education?

• Teaching and learning strategies that challenge
  students to innovate and invent
• Integration of math, science, and technology with
  other subject areas
• The use of the engineering design process to
  drive student engagement

How do we help children make sense of the world
and solve new and novel problems?
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Attributes of a STEM student
- Problem-solvers - Innovators -
Self-reliant - Logical thinkers -
Technologically literate - Sense of identity
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Attributes of STEM Classroom

• Active and engaging lessons
• Equipped to support spontaneous questioning as
  well as planned investigation
• Center for innovation and invention
• Supportive of teaching in multiple modalities
• Serves students with a variety of learning styles
  and disabilities