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Building Systems to Promote Early STEAM in Your Agency

Explore a process for how agencies can build systems to support educators’ math and science mindsets, knowledge, and teaching practices.

Module Objectives

  1. Increase awareness of the importance of early STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) as an agency priority.
  2. Recognize ways to build and maintain systems that promote early STEAM learning.
  3. Reflect on your agency’s early STEAM areas of strength and opportunities for growth to create early STEAM goals.
  4. Develop professional learning (PL) plans that align with your early STEAM goals.
     

Module At-A-Glance

This module offers ideas on how to build and maintain systems to promote early STEAM in your agency, including tools you might use as part of the process.

Section 1: Identify the Importance of Early STEAM

Learn why early math and science are important for young children. Identify what it takes to promote early STEAM learning, including how to support educators’ early math and science teaching practices.

Section 2: Build an Early STEAM Team

Explore ideas on how to build an early STEAM team. Think about ways to communicate and work together. Discover guiding principles to develop a shared approach to promote early STEAM in your community.

Section 3: Gather and Reflect on Data

Learn about strengths-based approaches to planning and the benefits of using them. Consider ways to gather and reflect on data to identify early STEAM areas of strength and opportunities for growth.

Section 4: Set Early STEAM Goals

Develop overarching early STEAM goals for your agency.

Section 5: Plan Professional Learning to Promote Early STEAM

Create a plan for PL and ongoing supports that help your agency make progress toward its early STEAM goals.