Current STEM Education Projects

"En•gi•neer•ing” [en-juh-neer-ing] –noun
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The Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM (TIES) designs and engineers statewide systems of innovative STEM education networks focused on project-based learning in the disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Partnering with communities, industry, business, K-12 and higher education, TIES creates a network-based infrastructure that connects innovative STEM schools where students excel and communities prosper.

TIES works nationally with the U.S. Department of Education as well as around the country with numerous city and state education officials and districts. This cross collaboration ensures that TIES delivers the best practices in the emerging science of STEM curriculum design to educators and administrators as well as to the public officials tasked with improving our country's complex educational framework.

Our current STEM programs offer extensive opportunities for engagement. For more information on how to get involved in STEM in your community or to initiate a new STEM program contact TIES at 443-955-9168 or via email.

National:

Department of Education: Race to the Top Fund: Awards in Race to the Top go to States that are leading the way with ambitious yet achievable plans for implementing coherent, compelling, and comprehensive education reform. Race to the Top winners will help trail-blaze effective reforms and provide examples for States and local school districts throughout the country to follow. TIES continues to work with State teams to integrate STEM education throughout the application resulting in a strong design for an innovative education proposal.

National Governor's Association: Innovation America: TIES works closely with the NGA with their efforts to strengthen Math and Science proficiency by modernizing the teacher force and creating new models for math and science education. The NGA, along with TIES and other partners, is helping to implement statewide strategies to enhance innovation.

National Lab Day: The National Lab Day website, a state-of-the-art social networking technology linking high-quality, hands-on, and discovery-based lab experiences to teachers and students in America’s schools. TIES is working with the founders to develop the website as the go to site for STEM connectivity.

National Student STEM Symposium™: In 1999, TIES created a format for a conference where teams of students from STEM schools present projects from their yearlong work in STEM. Students who undertake research projects understand the importance of inquiry; they learn to pose relevant questions, formulate hypotheses, test those hypotheses, and offer valid conclusions without settling for pre-ordained answers. The Student STEM Symposium™ provides an opportunity for STEM students to further refine their communication and presentation skills with a less familiar yet friendly audience.


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Schools:

Design Lab Early College High School in Cleveland, Ohio: The Design Lab OSLN early college public High School focuses on Art and Industrial Design.

Hughes STEM High School in Cincinnati, Ohio: Hughes STEM High School, an OSLN school, offers innovative programs and promotes economic progress by providing students with the knowledge and skills they need to pursue postsecondary opportunities and more specialized STEM careers.

Linden-McKinley Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics High School in Columbus, Ohio: As part of the OSLN, Linden-McKinley STEM Academy academic program paves the way for students to pass achievements tests and enter a two or four year college.

MC² STEM Hub: WIth the vision embedded in the TIES philosophy, MC²STEM High School has become a national model for STEM education. It embeds each grade level into a different STEM industry partner. Students are engaged by a dynamic, rigorous curriculum and project-based learning environment that prepares them for the 21st century global economy.

National Inventors Hall of Fame School . . . Center for STEM Learning in Akron, Ohio: The National Inventors Hall of Fame School ... Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Learning is designed to be a unique and comprehensive STEM middle school that promotes problem-based formal and informal learning. The school is just one of many in the OSLN network.

North Carolina New Schools Project: Created in 2003 by the Office of the Governor and the Education Cabinet with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and with the direction of Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM, NCNSP and school districts and educators have started more than 100 innovative high schools.

T-STEM Academies: Over the past 5 years TIES, along with other partners, has worked with the Texas High School Project to develop 46 T-STEM Academies. The schools built as small learning communities vary from schools-within-schools, new traditional and charter schools and Early College High Schools.

The Dayton Regional STEM Center: One of public STEM schools being created across Ohio, the Dayton Regional STEM School offers students a relevant, real world educational experience which will prepare them for college and opportunities in the work world – in essence, a springboard for developing and maintaining the Dayton region’s talent base.


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States:

Arizona STEM Initiative: Science Foundation Arizona launched the STEM Education Initiative in 2008 with the goal of supporting education that builds a highly skilled Arizona work-force as the foundation for the 21st century knowledge-based economy.

California STEM Innovation Network: The goal of the California STEM Innovation Network (CSINet) is to promote scientific, technical and quantitative literacies to strengthen K-14 STEM college and career pathways for students in order to create the workforce needed to compete globally in the 21st century and to create a STEM savvy culture within California.

Innovate-Educate New Mexico: Innovate-Educate New Mexico recognizes the importance of engaging students and teachers in digital-age learning by helping to develop and coordinate innovative efforts in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), resulting in a competitive workforce for New Mexico.

Innovate-Educate New Mexico: TIES has partnered with Innovate-Educate NM to develop and coordinate new, innovative efforts to inspire and engage education professionals and students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Together the organizations recognize the critical need for private-sector leadership in STEM education as an “All Hands on Deck” approach that serves as a catalyst to position 21st century skills at the center of P-20 education in the United States.

Maryland Statewide STEM Initiative: With the assistance of the TIES consulting team, Maryland created the STEM Task Force as part of their P-20 Council to help guide statewide efforts on STEM education.

Minnesota STEM Initiative: MN-STEM is a statewide campaign promoting the importance of high school achievement, the value of rigorous courses and the need for post-secondary and career training.

NC STEM Community Collaborative: With the direction of Jan Morrison and her team, NC STEM Community Collaborative was formed to align communities’ strengths with state and national needs. STEM education gives everyone a chance to succeed in North Carolina

NY: Empire State STEM Education Initiative: Under the direction of Margaret Ashida, with the assistance of TIES, The Empire State STEM Education Initiative, led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will identify ways to advance education in STEM disciplines across New York State, and throughout all aspects of the New York State education enterprise.

: TIES is delighted to be a part of the founding design team for the OSLN. TIES functions as the Management for the Core Management Team for Research and Development and External Services for the OSLN.

Texas High School Project: T-STEM Initiative: Jan Morrison's work in Texas as a STEM consultant, helped found the T-STEM Initiative within the Texas High School Project. Through STEM hubs and STEM academies, T-STEM promotes education strategies that integrate the teaching of STEM in a way that challenges students to innovate and invent.

Washington Partnership for Learning STEM Initiative: The Washington STEM Initiative seeks to improve student achievement and opportunity in areas critical to our state’s economic prosperity: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).


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STEM Learning Tours:

Please contact TIES to arrange for a tour of innovative STEM schools.


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