ABC CREATE L.E.A.D.S. PAsmart Grant 2022
ABC CREATE’s mission is to work collaboratively to connect ABC CREATE teachers with professional learning communities, tools, and best practices to develop competent and technologically-fluent students. The 2020 PAsmart funds will enable ABC CREATE to accelerate and advance work that is underway within ABC CREATE and work that has posed a specific challenge and has needed additional support to move forward.
We plan to address five key areas:
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ABC CREATE L.E.A.D.S. aims to surround learners of all ages (and particularly those who are historically underrepresented in STEAM) with opportunities to explore a range of STEAM-based skills.
With our partners, ABC CREATE will create community-based events designed to engage families and community members along with school-aged learners in hands-on CS/STEAM/future-ready activities. |
ABC CREATE L.E.A.D.S. will actively and intentionally develop, assess, and capture successful models for expanding CS/STEAM in elementary, for engaging families, communities, and maximizing benefits of collective impact of community, education, and workforce partners. L.E.A.D.S. will share best practices in an effort to expand the efficacy of the CS/STEAM ecosystems.
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ABC CREATE L.E.A.D.S. is working with the Consortium of Public Education to convene and engage stakeholders in professional development explicitly designed to address school-business-community partnerships. This L.E.A.D.S. initiative will provide school districts with three, CPE-led professional development opportunities: School-Business Partnerships Training, Project Based-Learning (PBL) training, and Educator in the Workforce training.
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In June 2022, ABC CREATE received a PAsmart Advancing Grant dubbed ABC CREATE L.E.A.D.S. (Leveraging Education to Accelerate Diversity & Success).
Designed to amplify and accelerate ABC CREATE’s ongoing efforts, ABC CREATE L.E.A.D.S. will increase support for elementary CS/STEAM classroom integration to reach ALL learners; will extend CS/STEAM learning into communities to enhance access for underrepresented population; will develop and enhance community, education, and workforce relationships to strengthen CS/STEAM offerings and applicability; and will expand CS/STEAM across the region and state by sharing the pathways and actions that lead to the initiative’s successes.
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With the goal of increasing support for elementary CS/STEAM classroom integration to reach ALL learners, the ABC CREATE L.E.A.D.S Elementary CS/STEAM initiative will provide a series of scaffolded professional development opportunities led by CodeJoy; a hands-on K-2 CS/STEAM playground which will allow teachers to explore tech tools and interact with tech experts; CS4All Script training to assist districts with the development of a comprehensive, district-wide plan for CS integration; a wrap-around coaching model to support educators who are newly acquiring skills and confidence in the integration of CS/STEAM technologies; and a CS project map of “mini-pathway” lessons and projects that can be easily adapted for use in any elementary classroom.
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