Services - Stem Strategy

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Our goal is to build the capacity of each organization to create and sustain systems and structures that promote academic excellence.

Instructional Coaching

STEM Strategies Group provides comprehensive and responsive support that is specifically tailored to the needs of individual educational communities.

Content Coaching
‍STEM Strategies coaches utilize a four-pronged approach to provide individual teacher development support.
The four prongs to our coaching cycle are

Observations of classroom instruction that allow our coaches to develop a general sense of teachers’ practice and identify areas of support.

Planning meetings between the coach and teacher to deepen the teachers’ content knowledge, focus on support areas, engage in lesson plan revision, and discuss the coaching model for the lesson

Active Coaching in the classroom in which the coach research-based coaching strategies to build teachers’ capacity to implement high-leverage pedagogical practices.Debrief meetings between the coach and teacher to outline and practice next steps for teacher development and student learning.

Professional Development
‍STEM Strategies coaches develop and curate school-wide and department-specific professional development workshops to build professional learning communities. We incorporate the latest research into our professional developments to ensure our practitioners are abreast of the knowledge driving the educational landscape, and their pedagogy is aligned to high leverage practices that promote student achievement.

Leadership Coaching

We recognize the importance of leadership development to organizational success. Driving teacher success is our ability to deeply engage leaders in inquiry and best practices.

Vision Development to develop and communicate a unified vision and responsibility for excellent instruction and effective implementation of curriculum.

Culture Development to develop and manage a strong instructional culture and content teams that take responsibility for and invest in the necessary practices, systems, and structures that lead to improved student outcomes.

Inquiry by building leaders’ capacity to model a commitment to growing in knowledge and skill by consistently engaging in an inquiry process that identifies challenges and solutions to increase the tenacity and willingness of discipline teams to implement high quality curriculum and pedagogical practices.

Teacher Development to ensure a collective approach that utilizes key members of the leadership team to consistently monitor, share direct feedback, and provide support that improves or fine-tunes instruction.

Curriculum Implementation

Effective teacher support is a comprehensive and interconnected relationship between high-quality curriculum materials and support that provides opportunities for teachers to plan effectively and improve their instructional practice.

Our coaches provide curriculum implementation support that develops teachers' ability to engage in unit and lesson internalization, intellectually prepare units and lessons, plan daily instruction, and engage in coaching that develops and refines instructional skills and content knowledge.

STEM Strategies coaches have supported districts and schools in curriculum implementation using Illustrative Mathematics, Eureka Math, Savvas enVision, Bridges in Mathematics, New Vision, iReady, Amplify Science, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), Wit & Wisdom, Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA), Commonlit 360, among others.

Curriculum & Assessment Development

We develop standards-aligned curriculum and assessment resources tailored to the needs of individual districts and schools.

Unit and Lesson Plans that foster student understanding and mastery of grade-level standards and concepts.

Problem-based Projects that provide students the opportunity to build their understanding from and apply their learning to real-world contexts.

Curriculum Maps and Scope & Sequences that provide teachers timeline guidance to complete their curriculum. These resources include learning targets, lesson goals, and teacher facilitation notes to support teacher instruction of a high-quality curriculum.

Assessments that provide data on student mastery of grade-level standards. We develop rigorous and standards-aligned mid-unit, end-of-unit, interim, diagnostic, and growth assessments to support districts and schools in assessing and responding to student learning.

Data-Driven Instruction

STEM Strategies Group supports school communities in embedding data-driven instruction (DDI) into the fabric of their instructional practices. Coaches support practitioners in using DDI to create data-based classrooms.

Data Analysis to analyze student summative assessment data for standards mastery and develop action plans to respond to student data.

Data Day Professional Developments to facilitate school-wide or department-specific workshops focused on building teachers’ capacity to analyze student data and develop action plans to respond to the data.

Curriculum Modification to make modifications to curriculum maps and instruction in response to student data.

DEI Coaching

We aim to advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in schools. We develop and coach around practices that advance diversity, equity and inclusion with fidelity and urgency. We build equitable school systems

We develop schools through the lens of studies, such as the Opportunity Myth, to ensure that all students are given access to strong instruction, grade-appropriate assignments, high academic expectations, and deep engagement. We support educational communities in building equitable school systems through a focus on the pillars of New York State's DEI Framework, developing culturally responsive classrooms, school-wide culture building, developing rigorous instruction, and creating environments with high expectations.

We specialize in helping teachers and principals strengthen their skills with tailored professional development and strategic guidance.

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