1. An Exploration of 3 Years of iTEAMS & STEM Education in
EVALUATION REPORT
iTEAMS CELEBRATION 2017
Welcome.
An Exploration of 3 Years of
iTEAMS & STEM Education in
Marin County & Beyond

2. Agenda Introductions, Welcome, & Movie Marin County STEM Education
World Café: Explanation and Activity
Follow up & End Notes
I want to make some brief introductions about today’s event. First off, welcome. Thank you all for coming. We’re pleased to see the principals, Superintendent, as well as our wonderful partners. Today’s agenda is divided into a few parts. While most of you are familiar with iTEAMS, I will highlight a few components, and share a brief video, then the Marin County Office of Education will speak about STEM education throughout the county. We’ll then open it up into a dialogue using a World Café format, and then have a few minutes to debrief.

3. What is iTEAMS?
The iTEAMS grant provided 50 + Marin teachers with support to deepen content knowledge and pedagogy to develop and implement engaging STEM lessons with a focus on engineering.
iTEAMS was designed in 2013 and began the summer of 2014, for 3 academic years. Here we are at the Maker’s Space.

4. iTEAMS Learning Model: 84 hours of Professional Development, each year
INTENSIVE
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
60 HOURS ANNUALLY
Summers
Fall
Winter
Spring
5 Days of Professional Learning
Led by Professional Development Partners: Exploratorium &
San Francisco State
Release day:
Grade-Span Professional Learning
Release day
FOLLOW UP HOURS – 24 HOURS ANNUALLY
Sept. to Nov
Dec. to Feb.
March to May
Teachers Collaborate
(4 hours)
Coaching & Support
(2 hours)
Blended learning (2 hours)
Blended learning (2 hours)
The iTEAMS grant provided teachers with professional learning supports for 84 hours each year. More than 50 teachers in 4 school districts and 15 school sites participated in professional development led by San Francisco State, the Exploratorium and guided by several coaches.

5. iTEAMS Impact: Teacher Self-Report
97%
Students engage in more hands-on learning.
82%
All students are more engaged.
80%
Students learn more about world around them.
Students collaborate more often.
As a research grant, we have collected data quarterly and annually. We have asked our teachers how has iTEAMS impacted their classrooms and student learning. .

6. iTEAMS STUDENT REFLECTION
“My favorite part of science class is when we get to build something and actually test it to see if it works. Like a race car challenge! Those are awesome.”
“I like when we get to do projects and interactive activities that involve us getting up and moving around. It makes the material stick in my head more as well as make it more fun. If we could do more of these two things that would be amazing. Thank you”

7. iTEAMS Student Enthusiasm
The percentage of girls indicated that they liked engineering a lot grew by 20% over the course of two years.
We have been particularly pleased by the growth in the percentage of girls who are enthusiastic STEM learners.

8. iTEAMS Movie
I wanted to share this short movie with you to provide student voices and perspective on iTEAMS since we couldn’t bring all of our students here together.

9. STEM Innovations Countywide: Marin County Office of Education
I want to welcome our Speaker Mary Jane Burke to talk about some of the exciting work going on and place iTEAMS in a greater context of STEM education Countywide.

10. World Café: Deeper Dive
iTEAMS In The Broader Context Of STEM Education
There are 3 rounds of conversation.
Each round will be 15 minutes long.
You will begin at 1 table and rotate to 2 more tables.
We’re now going to a do a brief world –café.

11. WORLD CAFÉ: PICK 3 TOPICS
from 7 listed below
Table 1:
NGSS and the Nature of Science.
Tables 2 & 3: Using the world around us to teach NGSS.
Table 4:
Number talks and math discourse.
Table 8:
Science and engineering advocacy.
Table 7:
Tapping into students natural curiosity.
Table 5 & 6:
STEM & English learners.
Table 9:
Sustaining enthusiasm after the PD is over.
Here are a list of the tables. Note that a couple of topics have two table options (NGSS and the world around us) and English learners.
Please feel free to jot down ideas on the note pads there. We know you have a lot of insight into all of these topics. We’ll present these notes on the iTEAMS website.

12. Follow Up on World Cafe
Find someone you haven’t talked to yet today and each exchange one thought from today’s activity.
Group thoughts: Share an “Aha” and “I wonder” from today’s activities.
Before we close out, can you find someone you haven’t talked to today and share one thought about iTEAMS.
We’ll have 5 minutes to do this.
Then- we’ll have a chance to talk in a group. 5 minutes
Last thoughts.

13. Most of all thank you to the students.
Thank you to the teachers, to the principals, to the Superintendents, to the coaches, to the Exploratorium to San Francisco State University and to our fantastic regional partners including the Marin Community Foundation, Romberg Tiburon Center, CEC Maker’s Space, the California Academy of Science and the City of San Rafael Chamber of Commerce.
Most of all thank you to the students.
This is why we’re here.
Thank you.

14. iTEAMS TEACHER REFLECTION
“As much as possible, I would like to continue to be involved with iTEAMS and the support it has provided in implementing NGSS standards and incorporating more hands on engineering opportunities in the classroom.”
Thank you.