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Home & Community Workgroup

STRATEGY #1 - Increasing  access to STEM education and careers in the home and community.

 

LONG-TERM OUTCOME

Philadelphia students and families, including girls and Black and Latine students and families, have access to and utilize high-quality and culturally responsive STEM programs and opportunities.

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SHORT-TERM OUTCOMES

  • All Philadelphia OST providers have access to frameworks that define and measure high-quality and culturally responsive STEM programming.

  • ​​Information on high-quality OST STEM programs and opportunities is readily available to all Philadelphia families and communities.

  • ​​Free resources for at-home STEM education are accessible to all Philadelphia families and communities.

  • Wrap-around, supportive services are readily available to all Philadelphia students and 
    families, including girls and Black and Latine students and families, accessing high-quality 
    and culturally responsive STEM programs across all Philadelphia neighborhoods.

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MEDIUM-TERM OUTCOMES

  • Philadelphia OST providers adopt consistent frameworks to define and measure high-quality   and culturally responsive STEM programming.

  • Utilization of high-quality STEM programs and opportunities increases among all Philadelphia students and families, including girls and those with Black and Latine identities.

  • Utilization of free resources for at-home STEM education increases among all Philadelphia students and families, including girls and Black and Latine students and families.  

  • Utilization of wrap-around, supportive services increases among all Philadelphia students and families, including girls and Black and Latine students and families. â€‹

Co-Chairs

Tarence Smith

Manager of Outreach, Education & Research

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

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Alisa Best

OST STEAM Coordinator

Congreso de Latinos Unidos, Inc.

High-quality and Culturally Responsive
Out-of-School STEM Framework

In alignment with the long-term goal that Out-of-School time (OST) programs providing high-quality and culturally responsive STEM opportunities are accessible to all Philadelphia students, the Home & Community Workgroup is creating a tool for providers to adopt consistent frameworks which will help define and measure high quality and culturally competent STEM programming. This tool is based, among other sources, on the Access to STEM Framework  from the Million Girl Moonshot, a movement of STEM Next Opportunity Fund. Our aim is for this tool to evolve into a rubric that will give OST programs a standard to progress towards.

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The Workgroup is currently hosting guided workshops with OSTs from the greater Philadelphia area to validate the framework.

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