Focus Area |
Follow-up Organization |
Marketing / Outreach |
Curriculum / Standards |
Professional Development |
Funding |
Alignment & Coordination: System-wide |
Create Strategic & Tactical Councils |
Review recommendations, advocate & coordinate |
Review recommendations, advocate & coordinate |
Review recommendations, advocate & coordinate |
Review recommendations, advocate & coordinate |
Alignment & Coordination: Curricula and Co-curricula |
Summit of teachers & administrators |
Make co-curricular programs available to all students |
Share among organizations |
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Jointly explore |
Career Pathways |
Create Statewide Engineering Pathways Task Force |
Inform all stakeholders |
Create customizable pathway framework |
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Diversity |
Champions that promote strategy |
Work through parents educating them on opportunities & pathways. |
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Use internships and industry mentors |
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Instructional Professional Development |
Coordinate development and implementation of recommendations |
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Pool resources including project kits, elucidate of engineering in teaching science & math. Improve relevance of college teaching |
Deliver presentations to teachers via teacher associations. Use industry / university / community college partnership |
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Marketing Engineering & Applied Science Careers |
OPAS Committee or other follow-up organization |
Multi-tiered awareness program, grow existing programs, enhance partnerships. Grow outreach programs, e.g. ORTOP, ISEF. Establish industry speakers & mentor. |
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Short-term teacher training, e.g. SuperQuest. Develop Teacher internships |
Seek industry funding |
Standards, Courses and Curricula |
Advisory Committee of academic and industry. |
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Standardize pre-requisites & outcomes of lower division courses and develop assessments. |
Focus on course outcomes. |
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Students Success: Access, Motivation and Retention |
Statewide Council for resource coordination and planning |
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Enhanced science/math standards to assure both inquiry and problem solving models are included. |
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