|
Calendar
Minnesota Webinar Series webinar: Innovative
Strategies for Meeting the Needs of Youth with Disabilities,
March 19, 2014
National
Society of Black Engineers Convention, Nashville,
TN, March 26-30, 2014
Feminist
Majority Foundation National Young Women's Leadership Conference,
Arlington, VA, March 29-31, 2014
NAPE
STEM Leadership Institute and Professional Development Institute,
Arlington, VA, April 7-10, 2014
|
|
Funded by a grant from the
National Science Foundation,
GSE/EXT: STEM Equity Pipeline Project,
Grant No. HRD-0734056 and Grant No. DUE-1104163
|
|
|
|
PIPELINE NEWS
NAPE's STEM Equity Leadership Institute and
Professional Development Institute are almost 5 weeks away! We have
announced the workshop
schedule and descriptions and the
featured speakers. Stay tuned for exciting
information about Public Policy Day, which, under the direction of Lisa
Ransom, NAPE's Director of Public Policy, will
be entirely held on Capitol Hill! Visit the PDI
webpage for all information.
NAPE staff and consultants were very busy during
February. Here is the rundown!
- On
February 3, NAPE Consultant Ben Williams met with the Vermont
pilot sites to facilitate the Explore & Discover modules
of the PIPE-STEM™
curriculum.
- On
February 4, I made a keynote address, "The Leadership
Imperative: Equity in CTE," at the Colorado Association
on Career & Technical Education Administrators'
conference, and I challenged the audience to consider equity
as a critical filter in all facets of CTE.
- On
February 7, NAPE consultants facilitated an orientation to the
PIPE-STEM curriculum for The Academies at Anacostia, a
Washington, DC, high school and pilot site.
- On
February 10, NAPE consultant Meagan Pollock and I provided
professional development to middle school teachers in the U-46
school district in Elgin, IL. This event, funded by a generous
grant from the Motorola
Solutions Foundation, allowed the teachers
to learn how to best present information to young students
about STEM careers and to describe the ways in which STEM
careers can enrich their educational pathway and, eventually,
their adult lives.
- On
February 19, NAPE Consultants and staff gathered the
Washington, DC, cohort for an Explore & Discover meeting.
Teams from The University of Washington, DC-Community College
(UDC-CC), The Academies at Anacostia, and McKinley Technical
High School took a close look at their institutional data to
develop hypothesis to address performance gaps in
nontraditional programs of study.
- On
February 25, I hosted a professional development webinar on Micromessaging
for middle school and high school teachers, administrators,
and counselors in the U-46 school district.
For access, equity, and diversity,
|
|
PUBLICATIONS
Lego Told Off by 7-Year-Old Girl for Promoting Gender
Stereotypes Kashmira Gander, The
Independent
A seven-year-old girl's letter scolding Lego for what she saw as
gender stereotypes in their toys has gone viral. Read
More
|
Female Students Start to Show More Interest in Science
and Engineering The Guardian
The number of female students considering university courses in
STEM subjects has seen a bigger increase over the last seven years
than for male students, according to new research. The survey,
compiled by Cambridge Occupational Analysts, is based on detailed
analysis of answers to 150 questions by around 20,000 sixth formers
each year for the past 7 years. Read
More
|
Tech Shift: More Women in Computer Science Classes Kristen
V. Brown, San Francisco Chronicle
Some colleges and universities, including the University of
California, Berkeley, are taking steps to create more diversity in
their computer science programs. Officials at the university, for
example, renamed the Introduction to Symbolic Programming course to
Beauty and the Joy of Computing and saw the numbers of female
students increase. The class currently consists of 106 women and
104 men. Read
More
|
Astronaut Mae Jemison Says Smart Things About Women in
STEM Becky
Chambers, The Mary Sue
For the unaware, Mae Jemison was the first African American woman
in space, the first real astronaut to appear on Star Trek, and one
of the top names on my Living People I'd Like To Have A Beer With
list. Recently, she appeared at the Makers Conference to talk about
100 Year Starship, an incredible project that aims to make
interstellar travel possible within the next century. In this short
clip, she discusses how humanity can't tackle such a monumental
challenge "with just half the population." Read
More
|
Further Gender Integration in Science, Engineering
Could Spark Innovation Victoria Fryer, Penn State
News
Recent research from the Penn State Smeal College of Business finds
that women's expertise may be underutilized in science and
engineering teams, leading to teams performing at less than optimal
levels of productivity. Read
More
|
STEM Urgency: Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics Education in an Increasingly Unequal and Competitive
World Joint Center for Political and Economic
Studies This report explores the gaps in STEM education
among African American and Hispanic students. We discover that
those most affected by the economic recession are those who are
also not being prepared for jobs in science and technology, arguing
that better STEM education can guide Black and Hispanic students to
higher education and employment in a rapidly-growing industry. Learn
More
|
|
Student Interest in
STEM Remains Undeveloped Steven E.F. Brown, Albuquerque
Business First
A report shows that students who express an interest in science,
technology, engineering and math often aren't helped to develop
that interest into a career. Read
More
|
Report: STEM Job Market Much Larger Than Previously
Reported Allie Bidwell, US News & World Report
The demand for students trained in STEM may be significantly larger
than previous studies have estimated, according to new data from
Burning Glass Technologies. Read
More
|
|
|
