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School and system leaders play a critical role in the successful implementation of STEELS standards. This STEELS School Leader Summer Institute is designed to help leaders support high-quality STEELS instruction, strategic planning, and teacher supervision. Sessions focus on creating inquiry-rich learning environments, evaluating student engagement, and implementing best practices for instructional leadership. These learning opportunities equip school leaders with the tools and frameworks needed to drive systemic change and support teachers in delivering rigorous, three-dimensional instruction. Held 3 days over the summer, June 16, July 16 and August 18, school leaders will explore how to align their district's vision for STEELS and discover practical strategies to support teachers and students in implementing these powerful, future-ready frameworks. Topics include: leadership, phenomena-based learning, 3-dimensional learning and assessments, teacher coaching, and integrating STEELS into course design.

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June 30 2025 MWEE Educator Experience Day

Audience: Educators, Administrators, Academic Coaches, STEM Coordinators and Curriculum Coordinators, Environmental Center Educators, Out-of-School Educators

Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs) are learner-centered experiences that focus on investigations into local environmental issues that lead to informed action and civic engagement. Both teachers and students play important roles in the MWEE by working together in partnership. Learn how to implement the Environmental Literacy and Sustainability STEELS Standards in your classroom! K-12 educators in any discipline are welcome! Lunch will be provided. Participants will each receive a water quality testing kit to use with their students.

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Computational Thinking and the PA STEELS Standards

Audience: teachers, administrators, curriculum coordinators, superintendents, academic coaches, STEM coordinators

Date: 7/1/2025

Shifting classroom practice to the new PA STEELS Standards is a marathon, not a sprint. Computational Thinking (CT) is a problem-solving process that enables students to think, learn and create to solve problems. CT enables students to think logically about how to organize data and breakdown the steps to solving a problem, transfer their thinking processes to a wider variety of problems, analyze key components of complex problems and generate a list of steps used to solve a problem. Open to K-12 educators, administrators, academic coaches, STEM coordinators and curriculum coordinators, this day will give participants a clear idea of how approaches to teaching and learning science, technology and engineering and environmental literacy and sustainability are shifting, as well as develop an appreciation for the shifts in thinking it will bring to the classroom. Lunch will be provided. Please bring a laptop and/or tablet to access online resources.

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STEELS and Assessments - Evaluating Student Work in 3 Dimensions

Audience: teachers, administrators, curriculum coordinators, superintendents, academic coaches, STEM coordinators

Date: 7/2/2025

Shifting classroom practice to the new PA STEELS Standards is a marathon, not a sprint. Assessing student work in 3 dimensions is a crucial part of that shift. Participants will take a deep dive into assessment in 3 dimensions by surfacing what STEELS aligned assessments can look like, evaluating 3 dimensional assessment questions and looking at student work samples in order to drive instruction. Open to K-12 educators, administrators, academic coaches, STEM coordinators and curriculum coordinators, this day will give participants a clear idea of how approaches to teaching and learning science are shifting, as well as develop an appreciation for the shifts in assessment it will bring to the classroom. Lunch will be provided. Please bring a laptop and/or tablet to access online resources.

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Ambitious Science Teaching Academy Learning Series - Summer Bootcamp Edition

Audience: Open to any educators K-12, administrators, curriculum coordinators, academic coaches, STEM coaches and learning support educators

Dates: 7/14/2025 to 7/18/2025

To support all educators and students in this new 3D approach to teaching and learning, NEIU proudly offers the STEELS Ambitious Science Teaching Academy Series. Ambitious teaching deliberately aims to support students of all backgrounds to deeply understand science ideas, participate in the activities of the discipline, and solve authentic problems. Lunch, a copy of the Ambitious Science Teaching guidebook and additional materials and resources will be provided to all participants.

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Elementary STEELS Academy - Summer Edition

Audience: Open to K-12 - academic coaches, STEM coaches and learning support educators

Dates: 8/4/2025 to 8/8/2025

To support all students in this new 3D approach to teaching and learning, NEIU proudly offers our STEELS Academy optimized for elementary educators. This STEELS Academy deliberately aims to assist educators in building capacity and knowledge of the classroom shifts necessary to support PAs STEELS Standards. Participants in this academy will leave with tools and knowledge to support students of all backgrounds to deeply understand science ideas, participate in the activities of the discipline, and solve authentic problems. Lunch each day, a copy of Rise and Thrive with Science book and additional materials and resources will be provided to all participants.

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