to Bay Area PLTW Best Practices Workshop May 6, 2013 California High School San Ramon, CA
Welcome Katherine Casey to Coordinator SJSU College of
Welcome April P. Treece Project Director, STEM Workforce Initiative Contra Costa Economic Partnership Tiffany E. Grant Resident Engineer, STEM Workforce Initiative Contra Costa Economic Partnership
Best Practices Workshop Learn from experienced PLTW instructors Network and form a community: We are in this together! Provide SJSU and CCEP with your data so that we can better serve you
Communications / Emails PLTW National Action Bulletin Virtual Academy Posts: Create Digest format on your profile! STEM News and Opportunities SJSU: PLTW Bay Area newsletter CCEP **Make sure these are not going to your spam folder** Inclusion of team members is helpful cc your team so we are all in the loop
Do the Math Save the World! Students must be successful at math to complete studies Incoming students not ready for calculus are at least one semester behind We re counting on you! To find and motivate more students To encourage them into successful math tracks We re here to help you!
to Increase the number, diversity, and preparedness of students entering and completing college engineering programs. 1. Support Bay Area K- 12 PLTW programs 2. Host PLTW Summer Core Training 3. Provide the EXCEED Summer Program to incoming SJSU first- year students
California PLTW Growth Over 300 Schools 300 PLTW in over 4,000 schools nationally! 230 Schools 250 200 160 Schools 150 100 50 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Bay Area PLTW Growth 80 70 60 50 ~ 70 Schools 40 52 Schools 37 Schools 30 23 Schools 20 10 0 3 Schools 2007 3 Schools 2008 7 Schools 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
PLTW Students Served by County (2011) San Mateo San Francisco 4% Santa Cruz 1% 0% Monterey 5% Solano 4% Contra Costa 16% Santa Clara 51% Alameda 19%
PLTW Runs on Partnerships State and Regional Centers San Diego State University SJSU, Cal Poly Pomona, CSU East Bay Workforce Development Organizations Contra Costa Economic Partnership Next- Ed, Sacramento Industry Partners Chevron Xilinx, KLA- Tencor, Agilent Technologies Intel, Cisco, Aruba Networks Lockheed Martin, Lam Research
SJSU PLTW Events 2013-14 Sept Autodesk Inventor Workshop (SJSU) Oct - Regional Counselor Conference (SJSU) Nov PLTW Power of Partnerships Workshop (Xilinx) Jan/Feb PLTW Informational Conference (SJSU) Jan VEX RobotC and DE Refresher Workshops (SJSU) March/April IED / Chevron Design Challenge May PLTW Best Practices Workshop (Cal High) June/July PLTW Summer Core Training (SJSU)
Welcome New PLTW Schools! High Schools Arroyo Los Gatos Mission San Jose San Lorenzo Saratoga Willow Glen Windsor Alvarado Cesar Chavez Dartmouth Grange Price Union Willow Glen Middle Schools
Bay Area PLTW Demographics 45% African American 40% Asian Hispanic/ LaIno 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% % of US PopulaIon % of California PopulaIon % of Santa Clara County % of Total PLTW Sample % of US Professionals
Bay Area PLTW Demographics 90% 80% Male Female 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% % of US PopulaIon % of California PopulaIon % of Santa Clara County % of Total PLTW Sample % of US Professionals
Ambassador Program SJSU students engaged in Outreach Some Ambassadors enrolled in service learning course Serve 48 hours per semester in PLTW classrooms 29 Service Learners since Spring 2012 Let us know if you d like to work with our students
Agenda 4:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 6:45 p.m. 7:10 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Dinner and Networking Overview of Workshop and Support Breakout Sessions by Course: IED, POE, GTT Recap of Breakout Sessions: Themes Fall 2013 School Site Needs Meeting Adjourns