This is our first year as a STEM school. I have the privilege of leading this work as an Instructional Coach. As a school we have been building a STEM identity for a few years but now I have dedicated time and funds to grow our STEM identity. A key component of this transformation has been our adoption of Project Lead the Way curriculum. We have received tremendous support from community partners to make this possible. Most of the grade level teams have started or completed their first module of the curriculum. As a staff we reflected on this at an academic seminar last week. One teacher shared that a student in her class who has academic and social challenges emerged as a leader and the whole class cheered when he completed a difficult task with the best results. She also noticed that students who were not "typical" leaders in her class excelled during the Robotics module. Another teacher reflected that the material was challenging to learn as an adult and she wondered ho
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