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Resource Library:
Tech Tools + Resources

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Available to our ABC CREATE district partners to borrow at no cost
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Learning Pathways:
How-to’s for STEAM in the classroom

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Grab and Go Guides for Lesson Planning for Future Ready Classrooms
EXPLORE PATHWAYS

Trainings:
STEAM Learning Opportunities

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Promote best practices in teaching and provide relevant skills and timely content

Summer PD:
Multi-day PD for educators

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Educators share STEAM integration ideas and connect with peers

Fall Convening:
Relevant, timely work sessions

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Working sessions for educational leaders and workforce development partners

STEAM Showcase:
Sharing Best Practices 

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Educators convene to inspire and become inspired by peers and thought leaders
 
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Available to our ABC CREATE district partners to borrow at no cost

Resource Library: Available to our ABC CREATE district partners to borrow at no cost

  • ABC CREATE district partners can borrow classroom sets of educational technologies and resources to support STEAM integration in classroom settings.
  • A wide range of educational technologies from Finch Robots to computational thinking games, maker crafting supplies to micro-controllers.
  • Support STEAM learning for students from K-12 in classrooms across the region to offer educators an opportunity to ”try before they buy” or to supplement existing stock. These tools support cross-district collaborations, teachers training teachers and have been utilized in numerous ABC CREATE community events.Many of these tools were used in learning pathways, crafted by ABC CREATE classroom educators.
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Grab and Go Guides for Lesson Planning for Future Ready Classrooms

Learning Pathways:

Created by teachers for teachers, these grab and go guides are how-to’s for integrating STEAM into classrooms within four vertically articulated strands: Coding and Computer Science, Data Fluency, Creative Design, and Engineering. Over 30 Learning Pathways give educators on-ramps for incorporating CS and STEAM into their existing curricula. This multi-year initiative brought educators together through in-person and virtual writing sessions and resulted in several cross-district and partner contributions. Pathways range from Early Childhood to High School and incorporate a variety of tech tools from our ABC CREATE Resource Library.

EXPLORE PATHWAYS
 
 
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Promote best practices in teaching and provide relevant skills and timely content

Trainings: STEAM Learning Opportunities

  • Learning alongside peers, ABC CREATE trainings help educators to explore and experience tech tools, resources, and pedagogical practices to take back to for integration into core curriculum.
  • In-person and virtual professional development opportunities help ABC CREATE teachers re-imagine their classrooms, revitalize their teaching practice, and reconnect with their peers through a host of professional development experiences.
  • Promote best practices in teaching and provide relevant skills and timely content
  • Educational partners share expertise in STEAM integration, robotics and computational thinking

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Educators share STEAM integration ideas and connect with peers

Summer Professional Development : Multi-day PD for educators

  • Each summer, ABC CREATE educators co-design our Teachers’ Summer STEAM Camp. During this multi-day professional development, attending teachers share relevant and engaging STEAM integration ideas, explore hands-on lessons and resources, and connect with their peers. Summer professional development guides teachers to re-imagine their classrooms, revitalize their teaching practice, and reconnect with their peers.
  • Sessions focus on current challenges, shared experiences, and relevant teaching and learning opportunities for educators.
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Working sessions for educational leaders and workforce development partners

Fall Convening: Relevant, timely work sessions


  • Each fall, educational leaders and workforce development partners convene to address current educational opportunities and issues pertinent to the implementation of ABC CREATE’s mission.


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Educators convene to inspire and become inspired by peers and thought leaders

STEAM Showcase: Sharing Best Practices


  • Each spring, ABC CREATE educators and other educational partners convene to share best practices at the ABC CREATE STEAM Showcase. Educators share STEAM integration ideas, pedagogical approaches and classroom resources they've successfully used in their own classroom instruction.

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Connect with us:

Colleen Smith
STE(A)M Outreach Coordinator
724-334-6138 cms64@psu.edu

ABC CREATE

Penn State New Kensington
3550 7th Street Road
New Kensignton, PA 15068

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  • HOME
  • OUR STORY
  • AREAS OF FOCUS
    • PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    • COLLABORATION
    • STEAM INTEGRATION
    • FUTURE READY IMPACT
  • FOR EDUCATORS
  • LEADS
    • Elementary CS/STEAM
    • Partners: School, Business, Community
    • Communities + Families
    • Extending Impact
  • UPDATES