Starting and Implementing a STEM Program
About the STEM Immersion Guide and STEM Implementation Guide (below)
The STEM Immersion Guide was created as a tool to help educators establish and implement for 21st century schools and classrooms in Arizona. It is written as an over-arching framework to help chart a course for integrating STEM education in Arizona schools and districts. The STEM Immersion Guide contains key design elements that support project-based, interdisciplinary STEM instruction by providing practical tools and information to enable teachers, schools and districts, and administrators that want to improve student outcomes by integrating STEM.
Where do I get started?
Starting and implementing a STEM program will be an exciting adventure for everyone involved! The Arizona STEM Network, in partnership with Maricopa County Education Service Agency (MCESA), has created a four level STEM Immersion Guide--Exploratory, Introductory, Partial Immersion, Full Immersion-- to lead you through the process.
Stem Implementation Guides
The "Roadmaps" offered below provide a check-off list for planning and implementing your STEM Program. The accompanying videos provide targeted information on the four levels of STEM Immersion.
Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) and the AZ STEM Network created the STEM Implementation Guide as a "how-to checklist” for implementing the four models found within the STEM Immersion Guide. This guide provides schools with a timeline for planning, implementing and facilitating a STEM program from the Exploratory Model up through the Full Immersion Model. The guide’s checklist is an organizational tool to drive program development. This guide will also provide the processes used to gather qualitative and quantitative data elements and observations necessary to evaluate effective STEM schools/programs.