Success in education is anything but an overnight process.
It takes time and patience to assemble all the building blocks required to foster engaged, enthusiastic learners.
Success in education is anything but an overnight process.
Since 2014, ABC CREATE has been actualizing its mission - connecting teachers across school districts with professional learning communities, tools, and best practices to develop competent and technologically fluent students.
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Through a $482,145 PAsmart grant facilitated by the Pennsylvania Department of Education in 2022, ABC CREATE's L.E.A.D.S. initiative leveraged a range of resources – innovative hardware and software, leading-edge training, and strategic partnerships with community organizations..
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Maximizing the Benefits of Collective Impact
of Community, Education, and Workforce Partners The last two years have been incredibly productive for ABC CREATE. The L.E.A.D.S. initiative has connected to hundreds of educators, while helping ABC CREATE expand its reach to new schools and districts. Throughout all these efforts, the organization has advanced its goal of building technology fluencies in the region. |
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Through a $482,145 PAsmart grant facilitated
by the PA Department of Education in 2022, ABC CREATE's L.E.A.D.S. initiative leveraged a range of resources – innovative hardware and software, leading-edge training, and strategic partnerships with community organizations.. Maximizing the Benefits of Collective Impact of Community, Education, and Workforce Partners The last two years have been incredibly productive for ABC CREATE. The L.E.A.D.S. initiative has connected to hundreds of educators, while helping ABC CREATE expand its reach to new schools and districts. Throughout all these efforts, the organization has advanced its goal of building technology fluencies in the region. |
Responsive
Teacher PD 52 learning experiences for 286 unique educators across 24
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Access to Devices
Over 355 programmable robots distributed to teachers
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Deepening Partnerships
Forged connections with other training organizations, and
exposed educators to future-ready career pathways |
Network-Building
Empowered educators to become peer leaders for STEAM skills
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ABC CREATE is actualizing its mission - actively connecting teachers across school districts with professional learning communities, tools, and best practices to develop competent and technologically fluent students.
ABC CREATE centers its core values in all its initiatives: Equitable Access, Collaboration, Technological Fluency, Innovative Teaching and Learning.
ABC CREATE L.E.A.D.S. PAsmart Grant 2022
In June 2022, ABC CREATE received a PAsmart Advancing Grant dubbed ABC CREATE L.E.A.D.S. (Leveraging Education to Accelerate Diversity & Success).
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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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ABC CREATE'S AREAS OF FOCUS
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OVERVIEW: Formed in 2014 as a way for school districts in the campus’ local region to work collaboratively to revitalize teaching and learning and to integrate STEAM skills, ABC CREATE has grown into a community of hundreds of educators from 14 school districts providing thousands of students with opportunities and preparation for a rapidly changing world. Led and coordinated by Penn State New Kensington with support from the Grable Foundation, the Arconic Foundation, and the participating school districts, ABC CREATE is an incubator of curriculum and of projects designed across K-12 education to bring to life the vision of being a change agent in the Alle-Kiski Valley by investing in the next generation of students through innovative STEAM education.
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ABC CREATE professional development experiences assist educators with the implementation of equity-centered teaching practices that integrate technologies and project-based learning, empower a technologically fluent generation through experiential learning opportunities, and provide a network of peers who inspire one another with their shared knowledge and enthusiasm for STEAM education. ABC CREATE’s partners including the Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment Lab (CREATE Lab) at Carnegie Mellon University, BirdBrain Technologies, CodeJoy, the Consortium of Public Education, the Digital Foundry at New Kensington, community organizations and workforce partners, make it possible for ABC CREATE to provide impactful experiences for educators and students in the Alle-Kiski region.
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Penn State New Kensington supports the development and implementation of a collaborative action plan aimed to amplify
and disseminate best practices from schools and educators.
and disseminate best practices from schools and educators.
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Connect with us:Penn State New Kensington
3550 7th Street Road New Kensignton, PA 15068 |