OPAS PLTWOregon

The Vision for the Project Lead the Way for Oregon: Teacher Leadership & Middle School Outreach is to build on the momentum and infrastructure generated during the past two years of Project Lead The Way (PLTW) growth in Oregon. High school (HS) teachers, previously trained at the 2006 PLTW HS Summer Training Institute (STI), will be mentored so that they can apply for Master Teacher (MT) status through the national PLTW organization. In order to introduce middle schools (MS) to the PLTW curriculum, these teachers, along with their school district administration, will be engaged and leveraged to organize the introduction of a new contextualized learning curricula called Gateway To Technology (GTT) to their satellite middle schools. At least three MS teachers per district will be trained in the GTT curriculum during the 2008 MS STI.

The Goals of this project are to develop teacher leaders, specifically to:

Mentor three high school teachers to become PLTW MTs, and
Utilize these teacher leaders to help introduce the PLTW pre-engineering curricula entitled, “Gateway To Technology” to middle schools.

Grant Source & Timeline	Grant Summary
Intel 2005-06	Start-up funding to promote the pre-engineering high school program entitled “Project Lead The Way” to Oregon high schools.
ETIC 2005-07	In order to increase the number of high school graduates choosing college programs in engineering and engineering technology, the pre-engineering program entitled “Project Lead The Way” is introduced to Oregon high schools. Oregon Institute of Technology, in its role as the National Affiliate University for PLTW in Oregon, has taken the lead in this program and will host Oregon’s first-ever Summer Training Institute (STI) July 9-21, 2006. This institute will provide a professional development opportunity for up to 46 Oregon high school teachers. This grant is intended to support 6 teachers to attend the STI and furnish the required software and equipment to implement the PLTW course in the teacher’s home school.
ETIC 2007-09 OUS internal	The state-wide pre-engineering program entitled “Project Lead The Way” was introduced in Oregon two years ago. OIT, in its role as the nationally designated Affiliate University for PLTW in Oregon, hosted Oregon’s first-ever Summer Training Institute (STI) July, 2006 and is poised to offer the second STI July, 2007. Beginning fall 2007, there will be 35 teachers trained in 42 different PLTW courses from 12 high schools and community colleges. Results of this initiative to date have indicated that it is both sustainable and extensible. In order to move forward in the 2007-2009 biennium, we need to build off of our past successes by developing leaders in the existing high school teacher ranks. These leaders will act as “master teachers” to help train future teachers and to extend the PLTW model into middle schools. It is the vision of this initiative to place the PLTW program in ¼ of Oregon’s high schools by the end of the biennium.
ODE - NSF Math -Science Partnerships (MSP) 2005-08 (3 year)	The Vision for this partnership is to introduce new contextualized learning curricula called Project Lead The Way (PLTW) into school districts within Oregon and to engage the local community colleges, skill centers, and industry to leverage resources to gain capacity for the program. Goals are: to increase the content knowledge and teaching skills of classroom teachers by providing a two-week summer training institute and on-going professional development opportunities, to increase the academic performance of students in mathematics, science and technology, and to establish the capacity necessary to implement and sustain PLTWs integration in Oregon schools.
MSP 2007-08 (1 year, overlapping)	The Vision for the Project Lead the Way for Oregon: Teacher Leadership & Middle School Outreach is to build on the momentum and infrastructure generated during the past two years of Project Lead The Way (PLTW) growth in Oregon. High school (HS) teachers, previously trained at the 2006 PLTW HS Summer Training Institute (STI), will be mentored so that they can apply for Master Teacher (MT) status through the national PLTW organization. In order to introduce middle schools (MS) to the PLTW curriculum, these teachers, along with their school district administration, will be engaged and leveraged to organize the introduction of a new contextualized learning curricula called Gateway To Technology (GTT) to their satellite middle schools. At least three MS teachers per district will be trained in the GTT curriculum during the 2008 MS STI. The Goals of this project are to develop teacher leaders, specifically to: Mentor three high school teachers to become PLTW MTs, and Utilize these teacher leaders to help introduce the PLTW pre-engineering curricula entitled, “Gateway To Technology” to middle schools.
ETIC 2007-09	Health and Science High School (HS2) Beaverton School District - $74,000
ETIC 2007-09	Redmond High School, Redmond School District - $48,643
ETIC 2007-09	Salem-Keizer School District (includes middle school Gateway to Technology) - $95,000