Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs 2014 Intel ISEF Educator Academy Los Angeles, California Action Plan – Los Angeles Unified School District (United States) 1

Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs  This is your working document  What do you want to accomplish  Who is going to do what  When is it going to get done  What resources did you see this week that you’d like to adapt for use  What resources do you need for your plan  Tell us what helped you most, what is missing, and what needs improvement  As you work, post your Action Plan on the Ed Academy Community so that others may observe your work (  Post your final presentation to the Community or on a USB Memory Stick  Please Title and name the file, identifying your location  A report out of accomplishments is due Nov. 15  Work with your Intel Education Manager to submit  Note: sample completed Action Plans from 2013 are on the Intel website : 2

Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs High Level Goals What do you want to accomplish for your school, region or country? Look at long-term (3-5 years) and short-term goals (1-2 years) Examples –Long term goals –Implement science inquiry in secondary schools –Institutionalize management of science fairs and science programs for primary and secondary schools –Increase the number of students participating in science fairs by XX% within X years –Short term goals –Establish a bank of mentors to assist students –Start a new fair –Improve scientific review and judging 3

Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs High Level Goals What do you want to accomplish for your school, region or country? Look at long- term (3-5 years) and short-term goals (1-2 years) Examples Long term goals Incorporate engineering practices into science education as articulated by the Next Generation Science Standards Institutionalize management of science fair for secondary schools in Los Angeles Unified School District – Proliferate research culture throughout district Raise the quality of projects in LAUSD science fairs “FULL” participation within the LAUSD High School Fair Short term goals Revive the LAUSD high school Science and Engineering fair Develop a District wide plan for LAUSD science fair and a handbook for K-12 Science Fair for and beyond Establish science research culture at Orthopaedic magnet school

Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs Objectives How will you know you succeeded? District science fair exists within LAUSD in school year showcasing multiple high quality projects from a minimum of 20 high schools [Note: 12 schools in ] Orthopaedic Magnet School leads the way with participants from all science classrooms starting in Please list the results you want to see Restart an LAUSD Science and engineering Fair for and continue for and expand to feeder middle schools to the high schools that participated in and increase high school participated by another 12. Twelve High Schools participate in the fair High school Science fellows trained on Project-Based learning using the Performance Expectations of Next Generation Science Standards as a starting point of science fair projects Stronger demonstration of students skills around inquiry

Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs Action Plan – Steps to Meet Your Goals and Objectives ActionMeasure success?Who’s Responsible?Deadline? Invite the 12 HS science fair teams’ representatives who participated in and add three more HS and their feeder middle schools to review the components of science fairs and develop a Science Fair Handbook for K-12 implementation* 15 high schools and teachers from their feeder middle schools will create and publish a K-12 Science Fair Handbook and participate in the District Science Fair, showcasing student research [30 HS Teachers + 60 MS Teachers, Project Director, two Facilitators] Karen Jin, LAUSD Central Office, Science Dept; Project Director and Facilitators September- November 2014 Review and Evaluate the Science Fair and Make connections to the Next Generation Science Standards Participating Schools and teachers ( Cohort and HS and MS cohort) Participants; Project Director Sept-Nov 2014 Or use this Excel document and embed it into your plan

Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs *K-12 Science Fair Handbook The K-12 Science Fair Handbook will include: Rubrics Guidance for Mentors on how to help students select quality questions Steps and processes, including application procedures for entry Establishing guidelines for grade- level projects, their appropriateness and compliance to applicable district and other policies for safety, etc. Provide models for successful scientific research/fair projects Review other Science Fair organizations like the Los Angeles County Science Fair, State Fairs, Intel ISEF, etc. Others

Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs Intel ISEF Educator Academy Reflection - As a result of your participation in the 2013 and 2014 Educator Academies, reflect on your experience Highlight what your team felt was the key learning from the Educator Academy Learning the value of scientific inquiry Affirmation that their is importance of what I am doing in the classroom Affirmation that it is universal….we aren’t the only ones with the same problems. Doesn’t matter your district, state, country Affirmation of the importance of soft skills (communication, collaboration, problem solving, self reliance, reasoning from evidence). Students are learning them through the scientific inquiry process Destroying barriers by giving students from around the world chance to come together and speak the common language of STEM Science fair is not an event…It’s a process. We must remember that it is a process and is part of the scientific process. Consider using terms like Research Expo vs. Science Fair to highlight this point.

Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs 9 Continued: Which Shop Talks were the most beneficial for your team? Amanda Alonzo’s – We are restarting our District Science Fairs and just trained a cohort of 12 high schools Daniel Newmyer– Very inspiring. Inspired students to aim high. Jen Gutierrez– provided us with elements to consider when scaling up Science Fairs & Relevant to our plan. Jeffrey Charbonneau – Interesting to see community resources, colleges, and his school expanded robotics, inquiry, and college-going culture. WHAT would you change? – Showed us the Intel learning tools, but had no access to use them ourselves in the workshop – More diversity in this year’s speakers…Different ethnicity…More relevance to the International audience. Main speaker from outside the U.S. or European office compared to 2013 What types of Shop Talks were missing? – Breakouts based on your role/administrative level – Show me how to start based on 3-4 different structures. Sure I could fit into one of them.

Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs 10 Objectives How will you know you succeeded? Please list the results you want to see Examples –Student participation in affiliated increases XX% over a three-year period –Volunteers/mentors increases XX% during the 20XX-20XX school year –Systemic curriculum changes underway; XX teachers trained in Project Based Learning (or Inquiry research) or new curriculum adopted –Ministry of Education commits XX money for science fair –School Science Fair started

Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs Action Plan – Steps to Meet Your Goals and Objectives 11 ActionSuccess Measure Who is responsible Due Date Example: Organize regional forum to orient science teachers to promote science fairs among students Reach 200 teachers from under-developed regions of the country Team Member XXOct 2013 Example: Implement a science research course at the high school Administration approval Team Member XXSept Or use this Excel document and embed it into your plan

Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs 12 Reflection As a result of your participation in the 2014 Educator Academy, please reflect on your experience Highlight what your team felt was the key learning from the Educator Academy What impressed you the most? Which Shop Talks were the most beneficial for your team? What would you improve? What types of Shop Talks were missing?

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