K-12 Education Workgroup
STRATEGY - Creating equitable and diverse education-to-career pathways
LONG-TERM OUTCOME
Philadelphia K-12 schools, post-secondary institutions, and local employers work together to formalize diverse pathways that recruit, immerse, and inspire Black, Latinx and women Philadelphians to enter STEM fields.
SHORT-TERM OUTCOMES
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Philadelphia schools have access to consistent frameworks to define and measure high-quality and culturally competent STEM programming.
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K-12 STEM Philadelphia school programs have access to culturally competent content.
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Black, Latinx, and women Philadelphia high school students have access to the pre-requisite classes necessary for students to enter STEM programs in college or directly into STEM careers.
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Philadelphia high schools and STEM employers collaborate to develop real-world and career-transferrable experiences that align to STEM careers
MEDIUM-TERM OUTCOMES
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Philadelphia schools adopt consistent frameworks to define and measure high-quality and culturally competent STEM programming.
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K-12 STEM Philadelphia school programs across the city integrate culturally competent content.
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Philadelphia high school students successfully complete pre-requisite classes necessary to enter STEM programs in college or directly into STEM careers.
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Philadelphia school students enroll in real-world and career-transferrable experiences that align to STEM careers via high school/STEM employer collaborations
Co-Chairs
Director of Outreach, Education & Research
Perelman school o f Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Community of Practice
The goal of the CoP is to coordinate alignment and increase programming for all K-12 educators to provide high-quality, culturally competent STEM experiences. In this pilot project, Cramp Elementary was chosen to.......
Performance Task Project
Our goal is to embed sound practices for developing performance tasks, embedding them in standards-based pedagogy and assessing learning within a limited one-to-two-year pilot for 9th grade academies within two School District of Philadelphia (SDP) schools.
Philadelphia Geography Project
Our group is working to map school STEM learning needs so PSEC can direct partners and resources to create STEM Pathways.
