Brett Barley Associate Director, Education & Health Policy Silicon Valley Leadership Group

Silicon Valley: A Laboratory for Learning Goal: Improve student math achievement by focusing on teacher development and instructional strategies. With a priority on low socio-economic school districts. Strategy: Silicon Valley teachers attend an 80- hour professional development course focused on math content through the algebra level. Emphasis on the interrelatedness of arithmetic, algebra and geometry. Plus, an optional 20-hour follow-up Professional Learning Community.

Silicon Valley: A Laboratory for Learning Results: Teachers grow by more than 30% moving from D average to a B average. Reach: In the past five years we have served more than 425 teachers in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.

Silicon Valley: A Laboratory for Learning Questions Why Intel? Challenges? Potential to expand to other subjects? Teacher reaction?

Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education Mission: The IISME Summer Fellowship Program places K-16 teachers of all subjects into high-performance work sites for the summer. IISME exists to address the critical need for a strong, highly-skilled workforce in mathematics, science and technological fields by focusing on teachers as the primary agents for effecting meaningful change in education.

Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education Specifics: – Full-time for eight weeks – Project based – $8,200 stipend. – Focus on how skills transfer to students/colleagues. – Over 27 years, IISME has benefitted 2,970 teachers from 650 schools in 122 districts. – IISME teachers have reached over 2 million students, 35% of whom are educationally disadvantaged and underrepresented in science and engineering fields.

Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education Success Stories – Sujatha Raghu – teacher at Rolling Hills Middle School – Fellow at Christopher Chidsey’s research lab at Stanford University – Stephanie Darrough-Butler – teacher at Elmhurst Middle School in Oakland - Fellow at Lockheed Martin Space Systems

Linking the business, tech and education communities Strategies 1.Start a conversation 2.Find common ground 3.Identify potential partnerships 4.Build initiatives and programs that are mutually beneficial 5.Engage in consistent and rigorous evaluation, adapt your strategy when necessary