Friday Report: October 4, 2013 Date Submitted: October 2, 2013

Subject: STEM Leadership Network (SLN) Team Focus Submitted by: STEM Leadership Team

Strategic Target : 5.1a

During our meeting in August with the STEM Leadership Network (SLN) Team, there was awareness and a collective understanding of what it means to be a STEM district. We designed workshop activities that members could explore these ideas. We collected their thoughts and extensive questions and will utilize these ideas to inform ourselves and our 12/60 STEM Action plan for all future SLN meetings.

The input and discussion from our initial SLN fits into two areas:

· What system or systems do we have in place to identify, support and expand all the attributes of STEM?

· What are the components of an effective STEM district, i.e. what does it mean to think STEM? What would a STEM classroom look like? What constitutes STEM instruction?

These two areas of focus help in the planning of our next SLN meeting in early December.