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3rd Annual N.D. Afterschool SummitFebruary 21, 2018

Bismarck Career Academy

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Afterschool Network Leadership TeamDr. Mike Bitz - Mandan Public Schools SuperintendentN.D. Senator Tom CampbellRebecca Engelman - N.D. Arts Council Arts in Education DirectorJolene Garty - South East Education Cooperative Director of Student ServicesThomas Hill - United Way of Cass Clay Community Impact DirectorDr. Kristi Jean – ComDel Innovation Inc. Quality EngineerJoe Kolosky - N.D. Department of Public Instruction – 21st Century Community Learning CentersDr. Robert Pawloski – UND Research Analyst, ND STEM Network Interim Executive DirectorMary Soucie - N.D. State LibrarianBeth Larson-Steckler - N.D. DPI Federal Title II Part B AdministratorAmy Walters – Two Rivers Activity Center, Jamestown Parks & Recreation Facility ManagerLori Zahradka – North Valley Extended School Project Director

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Welcome!State Superintendent

Kirsten Baesler

Get Active on Social Media!

#NDafterschoolLike us on Facebook!

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Workforce Skills Development

Molly Bestge CEO, Cultivate21

Break

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Science, Teaching, Learning and Identity through Community

Science Workshops & Makerspaces

Jerry Valadez, Ed.D. CEO, Community Science Workshop Network

ED, SAM Academy, Inc.

Central Valley of California• 450 miles long – 60-70

miles wide• San Joaquin Valley is

southern part• Fresno County is most

productive agriculture area in state and Nation.

• High poverty• Environmental issues• Water• Air

• 40% of land government owned

• Called ‘Appalachia West’

•Fresno•Sanger

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Rural San Joaquin Valley

Irrigated Desert

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What is Making?

•Basic tools and hand tools: saws, hammers, pliers, wire strippers, hand drills, scroll saws, etc.

•Recycled materials – bottles, cans, fabric, cork, bottle caps, (RAFT supplies).•Tinkering – simple circuits and soldering, scrap wire, and appliances/computers parts

•Recycled wood and woodworking tools•Sewing machines, glue guns, sewing needles•Cardboard, paper, paint, newsprint, paper rolls•Robots built from scratch •Craft materials of all kinds•Drums and musical instruments from scratch.

Let’s Make! Engineering Design Challenge

•Design, build, and test a ‘Badge Buddy’ from the materials provided.

•You must transfer the energy from the battery to make the LED go on.

•Let your imagination soar!

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Your prototype ‘Badge Buddy’ can be different than everyone else.

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The complexity of the pictorial should match the students’ grade‐band

Mini-lessonCircuit: open

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Mini-lessonCircuit: closed

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(      = electrons)

The complexity of the pictorial should match the students’ grade‐band

Table & Whole Group Share

•What do your Badge Buddies have in common?

•What did you do that is different from the other Badge Buddies?

•What different ways did you adjust after listening to each team’s ideas?

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Tinkering with Circuits: Exploration of Materials

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Power of ‘Making’ Habits of Mind

Curiosity—asking why questionsInnovation—out of the box thinkingPerseverance—keep at itFlexibility—change it up

--from Costa & Kallick, 2000

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Learning Environments

Engaged and Learning

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Access – Opportunity –Imagination - Identity

•Innovation and creativity through engineering is particularly important for students who traditionally have not recognized science as relevant to their lives or future.

•Engage in science and engineering in socially relevant and transformative ways.

Community Science Workshops

2/22/2018 Jerry D. Valadez, Ed.D. 

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Community Science Workshops

The Community Science Workshop is a nonprofit organization whose MISSION is

to serve as a powerful advocate and resource for Community Science

Workshops, programs, and schools, providing opportunities for youth to tinker, make, and explore their world

through science in under-served schools and communities.

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Inclusive STEM, CSWs and Makerspaces

Maker education, and Maker practice, is an important methodology for engaging students, especially those

traditionally underserved in STEM, in design and engineering practices in the context of a shared or common task, through

play, making, and positive social interactions.

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Focus on Innovation & Creativity

Efficacy and STEM identity through engaging ‘making’ activities.

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Efficacy and STEM identity through engaging ‘making’ activities.

For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of 2013 federal data, a statistic that has profound implications for the nation.

And for the first time in our history the average child entering public school is “non-white”.

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Equityand Inclusion “Access to high quality STEM

learning remains determined in large part by an individual’s socioeconomic class, racial or ethnic group, gender, language background, disability designation, or national origin. The most compelling challenge facing U.S. education is how to provide all students a fair opportunity to learn (USDE, 2015).

Community Science Workshop Network• Youth serving non-profit with support structures for sites and programs.• Sites located in areas of high poverty and underserved students.• Programs – Watsonville, Sanger, Dairyland, Parlier, Del Rey, Fresno County

Migrant Education, California Mini Corps - www.cswnetwork.org

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Research on youth development – Two categories: Disconnected Youth and Vulnerable Youth

(Congressional Research Service)•Peer influence shown to inspire students’ decisions to major in a STEM or Arts field.•Latina students’ patterns of socialization.•Family support systems for all minority students in developing and encouraging interest in STEM and Arts.• Student interest - academic experiences with math and science at elementary and secondary levels is critical. •High academic self-concept increases Hispanic and African American students’ odds of persisting in school.• Innovation and creativity through engineering is particularly important for students who traditionally have not recognized science or engineering as relevant to their lives or future.

Implementing by design…

•Early intervention to emphasize the affective sphere of influence on student attitudes, aspirations, and self-esteem related to STEM and Arts areas.

•Participation and success with STEM and/or Arts from earliest levels – pre-elementary-middle-high school. Increasing overall competency.

•Family support and encouragement•Peer influence•Recognize contributions of other cultures historically.

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Results: non-school outcomes

Child and Youth Surveys – Community Crime Prevention Associates – Dr. Peter Ellis and Dr. Rex Green. •Youth Asset Development Selected Changes Service Productivity Questions •Youth Social/Respect Changes Service Productivity Questions •493 unique children (to date)

General Take Away (to date)•92.5% of youth were satisfied with the program.•100% of youth had increase vs decrease in asset development•100% of youth improved on program outcomes.

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Youth Asset Development Selected Changes Service Productivity Questions

•82% - average degree of satisfaction•80.1% - average asset development service productivity•78.4% - This program makes me feel good about myself (better).•83.7% - This program helps me get along with other kids (better).•78.7% - This program makes my school work better.

Youth Social/Respect Changes Service Productivity Questions

•87.7% - My instructors were helpful.•87.9% - This program helps me learn new things.•70.1% - This program helps me stay safe.•59.6% - This program helps me ask good questions.•79% - This program helps me use tools.•82.5% - This program helps me like science. •86.9% - This program helps me feel proud of what I create.

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Making & STEM Resources

•INFY Maker Awards Contest•Community Science Workshop Network - Materials & Project Ideas – 150+ projects – Guest pass for 30 days – login – CSWGuest - password: LinkLearnMake18!

•RAFT (Resource Area for Teachers) www.raft.net•Kelvin (www.kelvin.com - Implementation Guides to Design Projects•Kid Wind – www.learn.kidwind.org•www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/•Tech Museum Science Workshops – www.thetech.org/hands-science-workshop

Sanger SAM Academy

Making & STEM Resources

Materials & Project Ideas•Inventers Hall of Fame – Invent Now – www.invent.org/index.asp•AAAS Science NetLinks – sciencenetlinks.com/afterschool-resources•Science After School Consumer Guide –www.sedl.org/afterschool/guide/science/index.html

•California Afterschool Resource Center – www.californiaafterschool.org

Sanger SAM Academy

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•Framework for Evaluating impacts of Informal Science Projects. NSF, 2007.•Learning Science In Informal Environments. NRC, 2009.•Framework for K-12 Science Education. NRC, 2012. •Ready, Set, Science. NRC, 2008•Development and Early Validation Evidence for an Observational Measure of High Quality Instructional Practice for STEM in OST Settings. The Forum for Youth Investment. 2012.

•Science After School Consumer Guide –www.sedl.org/afterschool/guide/science/index.html

•California Afterschool Resource Center – www.californiaafterschool.org•The Coalition for Science After School – afterschoolscience.org•Association of Science and Technology Centers – www.astc.org Sanger SAM Academy

Making & STEM Resources

Thank you!

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Jerry D. Valadez, Ed.D. CEO – Community Science Workshop Network

jerry@cswnetwork.org

www.cswnetwork.org

Adjunct Faculty – Fresno State

jvaladez@csufresno.edu

CEO - SAM Academy, Inc.

www.cvsamacademy.org

ND STEM NetworkPaul Keidel

ND STEM Network Board President

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•Paul Keidel – STEM Consultant - President•Adam Gehlhar – Principal, Jamestown High School – Vice President•Don Fischer – Supervisor of Technology and Engineering, ND CTE – Treasurer•David Demuth – Professor, Director of Undergraduate Research, VCSU - Secretary•Elizabeth Larson-Steckler – STEAM and MSP Administrator, ND DPI•Tifanie Gelinskie – VP, Workforce Development, Greater Fargo/Moorhead EDC•Tim Young – Professor, Astro Physics, University of ND•Rachel Myhre – Recruiter, KLJ Engineering•Beth Demke – Executive Director, Gateway to Science•Rebecca Engelman – Director, Arts in Education, ND Council on the Arts

Board Members

•The North Dakota STEM Network seeks to provide a collaboration for providing all students high-quality experiences in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics related fields. The Network is driven by:

•Promoting the need for greater advances in STEM for all students.•Creating regional communities that can better focus on local needs.•Encouraging every sector of the community to take responsibility for contributing to the education of all students by developing a community of practice.

•Encouraging educational practices that increase student engagement by utilizing inquiry-based, design processes to connect curriculum content to real live relevance and to active learning.

Mission

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ND STEM Network State Collaborators

•ND Career and Technical Education•ND Department of Public Instruction•ND Department of Commerce•ND Governor’s Office•ND Regional Education Agencies•ND Afterschool Network•ND Science/Math/STEAM Associations

Additional State Collaborators

•ND University System•ND K-12 Schools•Industry•Local Government•Consultants

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STEM Education Consultants from TIES and Delta Education

STEM Education Consultants

•Jan Morrison – CEO, Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM•Kenneth Wesson – VP Delta Education, University of California Berkeley•Steven Zipkes – Manor New Tech High School, Manor Texas•Annalies Corbin – The PAST Foundation•Roger Bybee – Building Capacity in States Series, CO•Jeff Weld – Governor’s Office, Iowa•Jerry Valadez – Fresno State, California (Central Valley Science Project, SAM Academy)

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ND STEM Network Collaborators

•TIES (Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM)•STEMx•National STEM Coalition•Utah STEM•North Carolina STEM•Washington State STEM•Iowa STEM

ND STEM Network Collaborators (cont.)

•Ohio STEM (MC2 High School, GE Campus; Early College High School, Ohio State)

•Manor New Tech High School, Manor Texas•Adams 12 County Schools, Thorton, CO•Medical Lake, Washington•High Tech High, San Diego, CA•Napa Valley Schools, Napa, CA•Governor’s School, Arlington, VA

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Statewide Programs for Students and Teachers

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State Wide Programs for Students•STEM Camps in Jamestown, Grand Forks, Fargo and Bismarck

Sample STEM Programs for Students

•ExploraVision – Toshiba and the National Science Teachers Association•E-Cybermission - Army•Reading Green – University of Wisconsin Fast Plants Program•Robotics – FIRST/ BEST/ VEX•Nanotechnology – University of New Mexico, Sandia Labs•Microelectronics •Biotechnology

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Additional Ideas for After School Programming

•Rosie’s Girls•Cardinal Manufacturing•Pearson Project STEM•At Risk Students•Girl Scouts•Wahpeton Skills Center Fargo•4H

State Wide Programming for Teachers and Administrators

•Regional Meetings - 4 Regional Hubs + Native American Group

•State Conferences - ND Afterschool Summit & 21CCLC Summer Conference- Science/Math/STEAM- North Dakota Council of Educational Leaders

•ND STEM Network Conferences

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Grant Programs/Legislation

•Americorps Vista Grant (ND Regional Education Agencies and Volunteer Vistas)•Use of Legislative Funding to support student, teacher and administrative programming.

•501c3 Nonprofit Educational Corporation (Visit our “Funding” page)

Additional Programming

•STEM Exchange •Webpage

- www.ndstem.org•Meetings

- Governor’s Main Street Initiative•Partners

- Microsoft – Tech Spark Program

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Additional Programming Continued!

•ND STEM Homepage•ND STEM Blog•The Connectory•STEM Premier•Ask Me! By EDUTECH•ND STEM Linkedin Group

STEM Teaching Strategies

•Interdisciplinary•Transdisciplinary

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Contact Information

Official address of Nonprofit Corporation:•North Dakota STEM Network600 E Boulevard Ave, Dept 270State Capitol Building, 15th FloorBismarck, ND 58505-0610

Please direct all inquiries to…•Bob Pawloski, Interim Executive Directorrobert.pawloski@und.edu701-777-5620 (w) | 402-871-5971 (c)

Lunch Time!11:30am – 12:30pmFeaturing

Circle Painting with artist Heip Nguyen

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Networking Session I

Developing 21st Century Skills

Networking Session II

Creating Business Partnerships

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Program Idea &Resource Pitches

CHARISM

PBS Education

Area Health Education Centers

Grafton 21CCLC Program

EduTech

Gateway to Science

Inspire Innovation Lab

Action Planning(sheet in folder)

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www.NDAfterschoolNetwork.com

Thank you!