Oregon Connections NEPRIS NEPRIS website
– Full access licenses available for all Southern Oregon educators
– A local Southern Oregon industry is featured each month
– Monthly Teacher Training for Oregon Connections– PDNetworks
– February
– March
– April
– May
Early Learning (Jackson & Josephine)
– 200 STEM kits for rural families prepared
– Partnering with Early Learning to develop PD to accompany kits
Lending Library
– Makey Makey for MS students at home! Contact Kim Young at kim_young@soesd.k12.or.us
IGNITE project w/ Oregon Community Foundation
Dialogues in Action (Landen Zernickow) is conducting our regional needs assessment and focusing efforts to determine themes across our three counties for how education can better connect with industry to support pathways leading to high wage, high demand jobs
Camp Invention host sites virtually through CI Connect. Planning now for Summer 2021!
Oregon Science Project (OSP) website
- Rural Elementary and K-12 schools talking about what STEAM looks like in their atmospheres, collaborating with other rural schools, and inspiring/encouraging growth in STEAM within each of the schools involved
- Registration open, monthly meeting (2 attachments: Rural Learning Collaborative and DL Facilitation Institute)
- Monthly PLC time TBD
Early Childhood
- Collaboration with Early Childhood Network and CCRN,
- Surveyed rural families in English and Spanish to determine needs for STEAM supplies/equipment and training
- Preparing delivery and training for kits for Jackson, Josephine, and Klamath Counties
- Collaborating with STEM hubs from around the state for best practices
Mobile Maker Space
- Target: Rural Middle Schools
- Most commonly brought to your school library and teachers can check out from there
- Preparing options for student check out
- May have for 1 month at a time
- Check out other STEAM lending library equipment through Media Net account
- Training available
Southern Oregon Fire Ecology Education (SOFEE Pathway Project) website
- Partnership with Oregon Outdoor School Program
- “Fire Works” Train the Trainer Fire Ecology
- Curriculum modification to match Southern Oregon’s landscape and environment
- Development of distance learning module and trunks
STEAM Lesson Plans ready for Distance Learning
- Talent Maker City partnering local teachers to model Elementary, MS and HS STEAM video and lesson plans
- Click here to find, and browse other digital resources.
- Also coming soon: weekly STEM ideas with lesson plans
STEM Ecosystems Resource Library– The STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice is offering a virtual collection of resources, webinars, and workshops intended to help teachers, administrators, and families engage learning for their children while schools and other activities are suspended. Check it out at: https://stemecosystems.org/stemathome/
Additional Resources
For more information contact karla_clark@soesd.k12.or.us