8:30am to 9:00am - Registration & Light Breakfast

9:00am to 9:10am -  Welcome    

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9:10am to 9:55am - From One to Many: Building STEM Social Capital from Micro                                                           Practice to Macro Systems 

                                                      

This fireside chat explores STEM social capital at two levels: the micro practices that shape one young person’s              journey—relationships, mentoring, help-seeking—and the macro systems needed to make those opportunities              population-wide rather than one-off. Using a recent Heights Philadelphia graduate’s experience as a starting point,      speakers will invite K–12 educators and community partners to consider how our collective work can move from          impacting individual students to building a regional system of STEM social capital that connects early exposure,            algebra access, and career-connected learning.

 

• Diana Lievano, Executive Director, PSEC

• Liz Sutton, Associate Director of Alumni and Volunteer Engagement , Heights Philadelphia

• Keisha Pierre, Heights Philadelphia graduate and 2nd year biology student at Gwynedd Mercy University

    
10:00am to 10:45am - Session #1: SDP Partnerships Dashboard 

 

The School District of Philadelphia's Office of Strategic Partnerships unveiled a Partnership Dashboard in June. The Partnerships Dashboard is a public, online tool that maps school-based, student-facing programs across District schools, and visualizes the types of services – enrichment, arts, STEM, wellness, and others – those partners or programs provide. During this session, Emily Faxon and Severin Tucker will describe how and why the Dashboard was developed and how they intend to use the Dashboard to drive positive partnership outcomes at the School District. 

 

• Facilitator: Dan Miller-Uueda  - Science and STEAM Curriculum Specialist, SDP, and PSEC Steering Committee Member

• Severin Tucker - Director, Office of Strategic Partnerships, SDP

• Emily Faxon - Assistant Director, Office of Strategic Partnerships, SDP

10:50am to 11:10am     Networking Break        

11:15am to 12:00pm - Session #2: CRAMP Partnership Community of Practice 

 

Launched in 2023 the Partner Community of Practice (PCoP) at William Cramp Elementary School represents a collaborative effort to expand STEM education access and culturally relevant programming in Philadelphia’s public schools. The initiative brought together STEM-focused nonprofit partners, school leaders, teachers, and the Cramp’s Community School Coordinator to co-design and implement culturally relevant, high-quality STEM programming across all grade levels. The process, engagement model, outcomes and learnings at the PCoP at Cramp Elementary School, based on surveys, a case study and an evaluation process will be shared to encourage the replication of the  model in other Philly schools.

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• Maya Heiland, Director of Apprenticeships & School-to-Work, Community College of Philadelphia and PSEC's PCoP Project Lead

• Jamie Shuda, Director of Outreach, Education, and Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; and PSEC's PCoP Project Lead; Past PSEC Steering Committee member

• Michael Cabán, Education Program Manager, The Franklin Institute and PSEC's PCoP Project Partner

 
12:00pm to 12:45pm     Lunch   

       
12:50pm to 1:35pm - Session #3: PSEC MiniGrant Showcase

 

Hear directly from MiniGrant recipients as they share highlights, lessons, and impact from their projects in fast-paced  updates, accompanied by photos from the field. A facilitated panel discussion and audience Q&A will follow.

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• Facilitator: David Garbe, Director, McKinney Center for STEM Education and PSEC Backbone member

• Ines Vega - Recruitment & Project Coordinator, Pennsylvania Migrant Education Program at Chester County Intermediate Unit

• Alana O'Reilly - Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer, eCLOSE Institute

• Gregory Thomson - Director of Skilled Building Trades, Philadelphia Youth Basketball

• Dia Jones - Executive Director, Philadelphia Robotics Coalition

• Atiyah Harmon - Executive Director, Black Girls Love Math and PSEC Steering Committee member

 
1:40pm to 3:00pm -  Session #4: :  From Challenge to Action– Catalyzing Collaborative                                                Project Development

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This interactive workshop brings participants together to translate a shared problem statement into a well-defined, actionable project concept. Using facilitated discussion, focused brainstorming, and collaborative design techniques, participants will explore the problem from multiple perspectives, identify key needs and opportunities, generate and refine potential approaches, and build alignment around a path forward.

 

The session emphasizes co-development rather than presentation, creating a structured environment in which participants contribute their expertise, challenge assumptions, and collectively shape project goals, priorities, potential solutions, and next steps. By the conclusion of the workshop, the group will have a clearer shared understanding of the problem and an initial framework for advancing a set of projects.

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•  James Tarver, Chief Academic and Research Officer, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and PSEC Steering Committee Member

• Lamont Terrell, Director Partnership Operations, GSK and PSEC Steering Committee Member

3:05pm to 3:15pm           Survey

 

3:20pm to 3:30pm           Thank you