Highlighting the STEM/STEAM Journey

AdvancED Missouri Join the Journey: Spotlighting STEM Conference March 13-14, 2018 Highlighting the STEM/STEAM Journey:

Hosted by Rockhurst High School AdvancED STEM Certified AdvancED Missouri Join the Journey Wednesday, March 14, 2018 8:00-8:50 Breakfast Spotlighting STEM Conference 9:00-9:50 Concurrent Session 2A Rockhurst High School March 13 – March 14, 2018 • Getting the freshmen on the 'same page' for Algebra 1. Schedule at a Glance • Innovation and Demonstration in high school chemistry • Active Learning Classrooms at Rockhurst High School Tuesday, March 13, 2018 • More than a Library. Johnson County Library Makerspace, KC Digital Media Lab & The Linda Hall Library: A Center for Science and Society 8:00-8:50 Registration/Breakfast • STEAM focus engages prospective parents and alumni 9:00-9:50 Welcome - Gregory Harkness Rockhurst High School Principal 10:00-10:50 Concurrent Session 2B • Intro to Computer Science, the required course for all freshmen. Introduction of Keynote Speaker - Becky Densmore AdvancED • Space Matters! Building Critical STEM Competencies Through Designl Vice President, North USA Region • STEM in the Elementary Classroom with Washburn University • Design Thinking Across the Curriculum with KC Startup Foundation Keynote Address - Scott Davidson, AdvancED STEM • Transforming Technology Curriculum: From Ideation to Sustained Success with Rockhurst Are United States schools failing? Are high school graduates University underprepared for college? Do we face a shortage of STEM workers in the economy? Scott Davidson, Director for STEM Services at AdvancED, presents a compelling argument 11:00-11:50 Concurrent Session 2C for reframing the discussion about the importance of STEM education. • Embracing STEM in Modern Language Instruction: Methods and Examples • Creative Writing at a STEM Certified School 10:00-10:50 Concurrent Session 1A • STEAM Council – the journey of a new student club (student presentation!) • Action Oriented Math Class - Exeter Mathematics Institute • Death of Planners - Student Planning in the Digital Age • Entrepreneurial Mindset + STEM = Innovation with UMKC SBTDC • Preparing our future engineers with Benedictine College Engineering Dept. • Student Wellness Counseling Initiative using STEM Principles • Pop-up MindDrive! Check out these student made electric cars! • Using eProve™ to Cultivate Cultures of STEM Learning with AdvancED • Leveraging Community through the KC STEM Alliance 12:00-12:50 Lunch 11:00-11:50 Concurrent Session 1B 1:00-1:50 Concurrent Session 2D • How a Math Hub impacted student performance and perception • Equality Opportunity Exposure to STEM with National Inventor Hall of Fame • Tower Gardening in the Classroom • Leading Change with Mission in Mind - Principal of Rockhurst High School • Educators Using eProve™ to Cultivate Cultures of STEM Learning (cont.) • Using Active Learning Classrooms to Engage Collaboration • Design Thinking, STEM and Making the Connections to Solve Real World Problems with • Training Citizens for the Digital City with KC Digital Drive the Lean Lab • STEAM Studio – a partnership that made national news • Outdoor Adventures – connecting co-curricular to STEM • Makerspaces are applied STEaM with Hammerspace 2:00-2:45 Closing Session - Conversation with STEM leaders 12:00-12:50 Lunch with Student led tours of RHS innovative spaces Rockhurst High School 1:00-1:15 Film Introduction 1:15-3:00 Most Likely to Succeed Rockhurst High School is the only Jesuit Catholic private college preparatory school for boys in grades 9 – 12 in the Kansas City area. It is located in the southern residential portion of Kansas City, Missouri, a metropolitan area of more than 2-million people. Rockhurst draws a student body A thought-provoking documentary feature film that reveals the growing shortcomings of that is ethnically and socio-economically diverse from 95 different zip codes, 56 in Missouri and 39 in Kansas. The current freshman class entered conventional education methods in today's innovative world. from 32 private and 29 public middle schools. The entire student body represents more than 115 elementary and junior high schools from the metropolitan area, with 21% who are self identified students of color. In the 2016-17 school year, 42% of students received $2.2 million in financial 3:00-4:00 Panel Discussion aid. Rockhurst High School, through its various programs and activities, aids in the total development of its students. In March 2017, Rockhurst Jo Weller, STEAM Director & Curriculum Coordinator at St. Teresa’s Academy , High School became just the 80th school in the nation, and the first in Missouri or Kansas, to earn the AdvancED STEM Certification

Patrick Curran, Math Teacher at Rockhurst High School "Being asked to host a STEM Conference is humbling; AdvancED was impressed with how high functioning we are as a school," said Owsley. Scott Davidson, AdvancED "Their request that we host a conference and share our way of proceeding as a school is affirming to the incredible work of my colleagues." 4:00-5:30 Happy Hour/Social - Discussion

2 STEM Conference 2018 STEM Conference 2018 3 AdvancED Missouri Join the Journey Wednesday, March 14, 2018 8:00-8:50 Breakfast Spotlighting STEM Conference 9:00-9:50 Concurrent Session 2A Rockhurst High School March 13 – March 14, 2018 • Getting the freshmen on the 'same page' for Algebra 1. Schedule at a Glance • Innovation and Demonstration in high school chemistry • Active Learning Classrooms at Rockhurst High School Tuesday, March 13, 2018 • More than a Library. Johnson County Library Makerspace, KC Digital Media Lab & The Linda Hall Library: A Center for Science and Society 8:00-8:50 Registration/Breakfast • STEAM focus engages prospective parents and alumni 9:00-9:50 Welcome - Gregory Harkness Rockhurst High School Principal 10:00-10:50 Concurrent Session 2B • Intro to Computer Science, the required course for all freshmen. Introduction of Keynote Speaker - Becky Densmore AdvancED • Space Matters! Building Critical STEM Competencies Through Designl Vice President, North USA Region • STEM in the Elementary Classroom with Washburn University • Design Thinking Across the Curriculum with KC Startup Foundation Keynote Address - Scott Davidson, AdvancED STEM • Transforming Technology Curriculum: From Ideation to Sustained Success with Rockhurst Are United States schools failing? Are high school graduates University underprepared for college? Do we face a shortage of STEM workers in the economy? Scott Davidson, Director for STEM Services at AdvancED, presents a compelling argument 11:00-11:50 Concurrent Session 2C for reframing the discussion about the importance of STEM education. • Embracing STEM in Modern Language Instruction: Methods and Examples • Creative Writing at a STEM Certified School 10:00-10:50 Concurrent Session 1A • STEAM Council – the journey of a new student club (student presentation!) • Action Oriented Math Class - Exeter Mathematics Institute • Death of Planners - Student Planning in the Digital Age • Entrepreneurial Mindset + STEM = Innovation with UMKC SBTDC • Preparing our future engineers with Benedictine College Engineering Dept. • Student Wellness Counseling Initiative using STEM Principles • Pop-up MindDrive! Check out these student made electric cars! • Using eProve™ to Cultivate Cultures of STEM Learning with AdvancED • Leveraging Community through the KC STEM Alliance 12:00-12:50 Lunch 11:00-11:50 Concurrent Session 1B 1:00-1:50 Concurrent Session 2D • How a Math Hub impacted student performance and perception • Equality Opportunity Exposure to STEM with National Inventor Hall of Fame • Tower Gardening in the Classroom • Leading Change with Mission in Mind - Principal of Rockhurst High School • Educators Using eProve™ to Cultivate Cultures of STEM Learning (cont.) • Using Active Learning Classrooms to Engage Collaboration • Design Thinking, STEM and Making the Connections to Solve Real World Problems with • Training Citizens for the Digital City with KC Digital Drive the Lean Lab • STEAM Studio – a partnership that made national news • Outdoor Adventures – connecting co-curricular to STEM • Makerspaces are applied STEaM with Hammerspace 2:00-2:45 Closing Session - Conversation with STEM leaders 12:00-12:50 Lunch with Student led tours of RHS innovative spaces Rockhurst High School 1:00-1:15 Film Introduction 1:15-3:00 Most Likely to Succeed Rockhurst High School is the only Jesuit Catholic private college preparatory school for boys in grades 9 – 12 in the Kansas City area. It is located in the southern residential portion of Kansas City, Missouri, a metropolitan area of more than 2-million people. Rockhurst draws a student body A thought-provoking documentary feature film that reveals the growing shortcomings of that is ethnically and socio-economically diverse from 95 different zip codes, 56 in Missouri and 39 in Kansas. The current freshman class entered conventional education methods in today's innovative world. from 32 private and 29 public middle schools. The entire student body represents more than 115 elementary and junior high schools from the metropolitan area, with 21% who are self identified students of color. In the 2016-17 school year, 42% of students received $2.2 million in financial 3:00-4:00 Panel Discussion aid. Rockhurst High School, through its various programs and activities, aids in the total development of its students. In March 2017, Rockhurst Jo Weller, STEAM Director & Curriculum Coordinator at St. Teresa’s Academy , High School became just the 80th school in the nation, and the first in Missouri or Kansas, to earn the AdvancED STEM Certification

2 STEM Conference 2018 STEM Conference 2018 3 Concurrent Session 1A Concurrent Session 1B Educators 10:00-10:50 Learners Experience 11:00-11:50

Action-Oriented Math - Filip Sain, Instructor of Mathematics. Phillips Exeter Academy How a Math Hub impacted female student performance and perception The St. Teresa’s Academy Math Hub creates a truly student-centered atmosphere of academic learning with elements similar to Teachers will work on a few action-oriented math problems, discuss their solutions and then reflect on how a college math resource center.... With creativity and financial/human resources support, the Math Hub has developed beyond this type of learning might bring their math classes alive. Room 312 the traditional resource center and into an active learning center utilized by 94% of the student body with a 98% approval rating. -Jo Weller, STEAM Director. St. Teresa's Academy Room 312 Learning Commons Pitch Space Entrepreneurial Mindset + STEM = Innovation - Rebecca Gubbels, Business and Program Towering Gardening in the Classroom 'Growing Young Minds' Biology Lab Development Consultant. UMKC Small Business + Technology Development Center Kristie Vogelsberg, Owner of Prevention Through Nutrition, Inc. Tower Garden Overview of implementing entrepreneurial mindset training alongside more traditional STEM offerings. An entrepreneurial Discover the numerous ways vertical, aeroponic Tower Gardens are being utilized in communities and classrooms around the globe! mindset provides a powerful framework for envisioning the future while immersing oneself in the entrepreneurial experienc- Right out of the box, this “plug and play” STEM tool with free curriculum and lesson plans allows the educator with limited space, time, es that encourage ownership, self-efficacy, and optimism. Especially when combined with the practical know how from STEM and skill set to immediately engage students in a unique PBL experience, yet is self-sustaining over holiday breaks. Education is designed courses, creating an entrepreneurial mindset can set students up for success in not only in small business, but as problem solv- from pre-school through middle school levels that are aligned with Common Core and Next Generation Science standards, with addition- ing employees, and as engaged collegiate students. The session will use the recent implementation of the Ice House Entrepre- al advanced curriculum available. Teachers also report the glow of the lights, and gentle sound of water circulating in the Tower provides neurial Mindset Program at Rockhurst High School as a case study. a calming and inviting environment for student co-learning. As a tiny plant grows, so does the student’s excitement and engagement! Whether a single Classroom Tower, a Science Lab Bundle, or even exploring Tower Farms as a means of local food production piques your interest – this session is for you! Join us to experience first-hand the “Power of the Tower” as we partner together to grow young Student Wellness Counseling Initiative using STEM Principles Room 107 minds, along with healthy bodies and communities! Chris Bosco, Assistant Principal for Student Life. Rockhurst High School OutdOOr Adventures COnneCting CO-CurriCulArs tO steM OOM The presentation shares lessons learned and experiences gained in a new counseling program that connects together r 219 luke MClellAn, OutdOOrs Club MOderAtOr & theOlOgy teACher. rOCkhurst high sChOOl applied-learning, simplified project-based pedagogy, and sophomore students' personal development as they become Formation and learning accelerates and amplifies during travel experiences that are "off the beaten path." This session will more independent learners. Theory objectives include Growth Mindset, Grit, Learned Optimism, and Delayed Gratification. share the various challenge excursions that the Outdoors Club has created and offered the student body for the past five years. From visiting the Galapegos, to hiking the Swiss Alps, or traversing Alaskan glaciers, Rockhurst students have learned how to Using eProve™ to Cultivate Cultures of STEM Learning Room 329 push themselves physically, emotionally and spiritually. Incoroporating these opportunities into the academic experienceprint of students aligns with and enriches the AdvancED STEM Indicators. Becky Densmore, Vice President, North Region. AdvancED What we know. STEM education increases literacy in science, creates critical thinkers, more fully utilizes technology, and fosters Using eProve™ to Cultivate Cultures of STEM Learning Room 329 the next generation of visionaries. But it’s hard to shift an entire education culture steeped in generations of traditional pedagogy. This requires a radical approach – an evolution to the next level of excellence in learning environments – and we know it Becky Densmore, Vice President, North Region. AdvancED can be some heavy lifting...... Continued from Session 1A What we want to share. Good news! You don’t have to do this on your own as AdvancED stands ready to support and partner with you on your STEM journey. We know all education institutions strive to create the best opportunities for students to learn and to succeed. And we also know it’s a complex process and perhaps even more so when you add the complexity of shifting Design Thinking, STEM and Making the Connections to Room 107 pedagogy and engaging students in the design of their own learning! Did you know eProve diagnostics and tools, in combina- Solve Real World Problems Aditya Voleti, COO, The Lean Lab tion with AdvancED STEM Standard and Indicators, can help build quality into your STEM programming or isolate and identify root causes that may be impacting its progress? Please join this session where facilitators have planned hands on activities to: The Lean Lab supports early-stage education entrepreneurs and works closely with educators, parents and students to build the future of Kansas City education. We use design thinking to empower educators to build programs and services that they 1. Unpack the STEM Standard and Indicators need in their schools. Learn about how design thinking can help students and educators tackle real-world problems in STEM 2. Review eleot® 2.0 and share summative data collected from over 100 STEM certification reviews and how you can partner with the broader community to bring real-world applications to your students. 3. Identify specific data points to inform STEM teaching and learning using eProve surveys and inventories

The knowledge acquired using the many tools and resources available in eProve, coupled with the research-based STEM Stan- Makerspaces are applied STEaM Dave Dalton, Proprieter, Hammerspace Workshop dard, can help lighten the load in your continued transformation to create STEM cultures which promote student centric learning designed to address the peaks and valleys in the new Knowledge Economy and beyond! We will discuss how the maker space plays a critical role in lifelong stem education, exploration, and innovation. Leveraging Community Room 219 Learning Commons Pitch Space “The Carnegie STEM Excellence Pathway initiative is built on the belief that school systems, individual schools, departments, or individual teachers can improve their STEM education practices through a positive, collaborative approach. Designed to help the widest possible range of school districts and schools adopt best practices in STEM education.” The Carnegie STEM Excellence Pathway is a self-assessment instrument, through which participating schools and school districts first evaluate themselves in six areas: Teacher Qualifications , Curriculum, Instructional Practices , Assessment and Demon- stration of Skills, Family Engagement and Real-World Martha McCabe, Executive Director. KC STEM Alliance 5 4 Connections. Space Matters David Reid, Principal. Gould Evans. Greg Owsley, STEAM Director. Rockhurst High School Room 319 Concurrent Session 2A Learners Educators Experience 9:00-9:50 Building Critical STEM Competencies More Naturally Through Design Great STEM programs demand their students do much more than gain proficiency in STEM curricular content. Future STEM practitioners must be strong Getting the Freshmen on the 'Same Page' for Algebra 1 in teamwork, cognitive flexibility, communications, and problem solving rigor. They must be curious, creative, confident, and humble. They must be Room 311 excellent at contextual thinking and collaborating across disciplines. The learning pathway toward future STEM careers should be intentional to develop This session will explore how Rockhurst High School takes about 250 students from over 80 schools and gets them all aligned mathematically. success in these “soft skills”. And space matters! Whether building new space, or adapting existing space, the 10 strategies presented will help accelerate The session will mostly focus on what Rockhurst expects of incoming students and how the school creates a problem-based curriculum that development of these critical competencies, and enable more diverse and successful STEM learning experiences. Through case studies, David will share supports learners from a variety of levels. Frank Lyngar, Master Mathematics Teacher. Rockhurst High School insights to create powerful learning environments, bringing his experience as a co-founder of STEAM Studio and Practice Leader for Gould Evans’ national education design & research initiatives Innovation and Demonstration in High School Chemistry Chemistry Lab Concurrent Session 2C The Rockhrust science program has been working to anchor its curriculum in exploratory learning through laboratories and demonstrations. We will share some of our student's favorite demonstrations and activities - from a week of reactions affectionately known as "blow stuff up 11:00-11:50 week" to extracting capsaicin, from high altitude weather balloons to live streaming of storm chases. We will talk about how we move from idea to implementation, including where we draw inspiration for new experiments. Finally, we will facilitate a discussion between all participants of best practices and favorite demonstrations. Tim Nendick & Patrick Doyle, Chemistry Teachers at Rockhurst High School Creative Writing for the STEM Certified School Room 330 Experience first-hand how Project Based Learning works in a Creative Writing Course. In less than 50 minutes, we will runthroughan Active Learning Classrooms Room 312 abbreviated semester, including brainstorming, prototyping, structuring, drafting, workshopping, and revising. By the end of this session, you will have learned the basics of crafting fiction, how these skills can best be achieved through PBL, and why these skills are important within Rockhurst High School has converted one-third of its classrooms to ‘active learning classrooms’. This session will feature a STEM education panel of Rockhurst High School teachers who will share their experiences, data the school collected and answer questions David Spitz, English Teacher. Rockhurst High School about immediate wins, challenges, and student impact. Patrick Curran, Mathematics Teacher. Greg Buckman, Social Studies Teacher. Stephen Kuehner, Spanish Teacher. Rockhurst High School. Embracing STEM in Modern Language Instruction: Methods & Examples More Than a Library Learning Commons Pitch Space Do humanities and languages have a place? Bert Roney, Chairperson Modern & Classical Languages. Rockhurst High School Introduction to the various ways area libraries support STEM Education in Kansas City. Linda Hall Library president, Lisa Browar, will share Mr. Roney will explain how the Modern & Classical Language department participated in the beginning STEM conversation collections, services, and programs of the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology. Makerspace director Nick Ward-Bopp will and how humanities courses might react to STEM initiatives. The presentation will include samples of student work and share how the innovative makerspace in Johnson County is supporting learning and making for area students. feedback from students and instructors. Room 310 .Lisa Browar, President of Linda Hall Library. Nick Ward-Bopp, Makerspace Facilitator at Johnson County Library Andrea Ellis, Digital Youth Engagement Manager, KC Digital Media Lab of KC Public Library Death of Planners– Student Planning in the Digital Age STEAM Focus Engages Prospective Parents and Alumni Room 219 Like many schools who went 1:1, we got rid of the old paper planners in the process. In doing so, did we also prevent our A conversation about the various ways a STEAM focus engages the community from prospective parents to alumni to the students from developing their ability to plan? Brandon Jones from Rockhurst High School and Keith Enterzeroth, creator and outside community. Tara Hall, Assistant Director of Admissions. Robbie Haden, Director of Communications. developer of myHomework, will talk about developing planning skills in our students. We will also discuss how myHomework Mike Comiskey, Director of Alumni Event. Rockhurst High School became one of the most effective tools for our students in Rockhurst's 1:1 program. Concurrent Session 2B 10:00-10:50 Brandon Jones, Educational Technologist. Rockhurst High School leArning COMMOns PitCh sPACe Introduction to Computer Science Room 121 Starting in 2016-2017, Introduction to Computer Science became a graduation requirement for all students. This session STEAM Council - the journey of a new student club Room 312 will share the successes of this course and the process for creating the curriculum. This student led presentation will reflect on an effort for students to create STEAM experiences. The students JW Clark, Computer Science Teacher. Rockhurst High School organized a speaker series and flash study sessions to inspire and enrich the learning experiences of their peers. Design Thinking Across the Curriculum Room 107 Ting Gong, Senior. Casey O'Halloran, Sophomore. Rockhurst High School. Katie will share her story of ditching her traditional senior English curriculum and trailblazing a semester-long, human-centered research capstone project. Using a variation of the design thinking framework (out of Stanford's d.school), students evaluated their thirteen year-long "user experience" Scott Blonigen, Assistant Professor of of school, spent the semester building a launch-ready solution, and in the end, pitched to a high-stakes audience full of adult stakeholders and Preparing our Future Engineers .Engineering. Benedictine College Room 107 gatekeepers (entire faculty, administrators, community organizations, board members). We will discuss what cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset and Few people, including many students planning on majoring in engineering, have a clear idea of what engineering is and what engineers a culture of innovation across a school might look like, how it might support STEM efforts, and overall, the urgency for students to be creating in school. do. This talk will attempt to provide a working definition of engineering, discuss the training engineers undergo in an undergraduate Katie Kimbrell, Director of Education. KC Startup Foundation engineering program and provide suggestions for how students may be better prepared to pursue engineering as a major. STEM in the Elementary Classroom Room 312 We have integrated science, math and technology methods classes into one STEM course at Washburn. We will interactively go through one Pop-Up Mindrive: Additive Education Barry Commons of our units during this session. Lisa Douglass, Assistant Professor. Cherry Stefen, Professor & Chair of Education Department. Washburn University Learn how innovation and design, matched with project based learning and mentor support has helped MINDDRIVE impact the lives of KC students. Using vehicles of all shapes and sizes, during after school programming, to connect their young minds to the education they're getting Transforming a Technology Curriculum: From Ideation to Sustained Success in their regular classes. Through cameras, drones, electric vehicles and more, see how this young organization has found ways to continue to grow and push the envelope of what's possible. Presentation and interactive demo and display. Within the last five years, Rockhurst University’s Helzberg School of Management has reimagined and transformed its Matt Ziegenhorn, Marketing & Events Director. MindDrive technology and analytics curriculum in all business programs. We have redesigned all of our undergraduate technology core Room 219 courses, created new undergraduate majors, created three new graduate certificates and a new master’s Cheryl McConnell, Dean, degree in business intelligence and analytics. We are all in. Helzberg School of Management It began with conversations with employers, grew into partnerships with organizations, and necessitated & Associate Vice President of substantial faculty development and support. Come learn what we learned – what went well and what .Academic Affairs 6 didn’t go so well. Let’s talk about what it takes to design, support, and deliver transformed curriculum. Rockhurst University 7 Space Matters David Reid, Principal. Gould Evans. Greg Owsley, STEAM Director. Rockhurst High School Room 319 Concurrent Session 2A Learners Educators Experience 9:00-9:50 Building Critical STEM Competencies More Naturally Through Design Great STEM programs demand their students do much more than gain proficiency in STEM curricular content. Future STEM practitioners must be strong Getting the Freshmen on the 'Same Page' for Algebra 1 in teamwork, cognitive flexibility, communications, and problem solving rigor. They must be curious, creative, confident, and humble. They must be Room 311 excellent at contextual thinking and collaborating across disciplines. The learning pathway toward future STEM careers should be intentional to develop This session will explore how Rockhurst High School takes about 250 students from over 80 schools and gets them all aligned mathematically. success in these “soft skills”. And space matters! Whether building new space, or adapting existing space, the 10 strategies presented will help accelerate The session will mostly focus on what Rockhurst expects of incoming students and how the school creates a problem-based curriculum that development of these critical competencies, and enable more diverse and successful STEM learning experiences. Through case studies, David will share supports learners from a variety of levels. Frank Lyngar, Master Mathematics Teacher. Rockhurst High School insights to create powerful learning environments, bringing his experience as a co-founder of STEAM Studio and Practice Leader for Gould Evans’ national education design & research initiatives Innovation and Demonstration in High School Chemistry Chemistry Lab Concurrent Session 2C The Rockhrust science program has been working to anchor its curriculum in exploratory learning through laboratories and demonstrations. We will share some of our student's favorite demonstrations and activities - from a week of reactions affectionately known as "blow stuff up 11:00-11:50 week" to extracting capsaicin, from high altitude weather balloons to live streaming of storm chases. We will talk about how we move from idea to implementation, including where we draw inspiration for new experiments. Finally, we will facilitate a discussion between all participants of best practices and favorite demonstrations. Tim Nendick & Patrick Doyle, Chemistry Teachers at Rockhurst High School Creative Writing for the STEM Certified School Room 330 Experience first-hand how Project Based Learning works in a Creative Writing Course. In less than 50 minutes, we will runthroughan Active Learning Classrooms Room 312 abbreviated semester, including brainstorming, prototyping, structuring, drafting, workshopping, and revising. By the end of this session, you will have learned the basics of crafting fiction, how these skills can best be achieved through PBL, and why these skills are important within Rockhurst High School has converted one-third of its classrooms to ‘active learning classrooms’. This session will feature a STEM education panel of Rockhurst High School teachers who will share their experiences, data the school collected and answer questions David Spitz, English Teacher. Rockhurst High School about immediate wins, challenges, and student impact. Patrick Curran, Mathematics Teacher. Greg Buckman, Social Studies Teacher. Stephen Kuehner, Spanish Teacher. Rockhurst High School. Embracing STEM in Modern Language Instruction: Methods & Examples More Than a Library Learning Commons Pitch Space Do humanities and languages have a place? Bert Roney, Chairperson Modern & Classical Languages. Rockhurst High School Introduction to the various ways area libraries support STEM Education in Kansas City. Linda Hall Library president, Lisa Browar, will share Mr. Roney will explain how the Modern & Classical Language department participated in the beginning STEM conversation collections, services, and programs of the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology. Makerspace director Nick Ward-Bopp will and how humanities courses might react to STEM initiatives. The presentation will include samples of student work and share how the innovative makerspace in Johnson County is supporting learning and making for area students. feedback from students and instructors. Room 310 .Lisa Browar, President of Linda Hall Library. Nick Ward-Bopp, Makerspace Facilitator at Johnson County Library Andrea Ellis, Digital Youth Engagement Manager, KC Digital Media Lab of KC Public Library Death of Planners– Student Planning in the Digital Age STEAM Focus Engages Prospective Parents and Alumni Room 219 Like many schools who went 1:1, we got rid of the old paper planners in the process. In doing so, did we also prevent our A conversation about the various ways a STEAM focus engages the community from prospective parents to alumni to the students from developing their ability to plan? Brandon Jones from Rockhurst High School and Keith Enterzeroth, creator and outside community. Tara Hall, Assistant Director of Admissions. Robbie Haden, Director of Communications. developer of myHomework, will talk about developing planning skills in our students. We will also discuss how myHomework Mike Comiskey, Director of Alumni Event. Rockhurst High School became one of the most effective tools for our students in Rockhurst's 1:1 program. Concurrent Session 2B 10:00-10:50 Brandon Jones, Educational Technologist. Rockhurst High School leArning COMMOns PitCh sPACe Introduction to Computer Science Room 121 Starting in 2016-2017, Introduction to Computer Science became a graduation requirement for all students. This session STEAM Council - the journey of a new student club Room 312 will share the successes of this course and the process for creating the curriculum. This student led presentation will reflect on an effort for students to create STEAM experiences. The students JW Clark, Computer Science Teacher. Rockhurst High School organized a speaker series and flash study sessions to inspire and enrich the learning experiences of their peers. Design Thinking Across the Curriculum Room 107 Ting Gong, Senior. Casey O'Halloran, Sophomore. Rockhurst High School. Katie will share her story of ditching her traditional senior English curriculum and trailblazing a semester-long, human-centered research capstone project. Using a variation of the design thinking framework (out of Stanford's d.school), students evaluated their thirteen year-long "user experience" Scott Blonigen, Assistant Professor of of school, spent the semester building a launch-ready solution, and in the end, pitched to a high-stakes audience full of adult stakeholders and Preparing our Future Engineers .Engineering. Benedictine College Room 107 gatekeepers (entire faculty, administrators, community organizations, board members). We will discuss what cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset and Few people, including many students planning on majoring in engineering, have a clear idea of what engineering is and what engineers a culture of innovation across a school might look like, how it might support STEM efforts, and overall, the urgency for students to be creating in school. do. This talk will attempt to provide a working definition of engineering, discuss the training engineers undergo in an undergraduate Katie Kimbrell, Director of Education. KC Startup Foundation engineering program and provide suggestions for how students may be better prepared to pursue engineering as a major. STEM in the Elementary Classroom Room 312 We have integrated science, math and technology methods classes into one STEM course at Washburn. We will interactively go through one Pop-Up Mindrive: Additive Education Barry Commons of our units during this session. Lisa Douglass, Assistant Professor. Cherry Stefen, Professor & Chair of Education Department. Washburn University Learn how innovation and design, matched with project based learning and mentor support has helped MINDDRIVE impact the lives of KC students. Using vehicles of all shapes and sizes, during after school programming, to connect their young minds to the education they're getting Transforming a Technology Curriculum: From Ideation to Sustained Success in their regular classes. Through cameras, drones, electric vehicles and more, see how this young organization has found ways to continue to grow and push the envelope of what's possible. Presentation and interactive demo and display. Within the last five years, Rockhurst University’s Helzberg School of Management has reimagined and transformed its Matt Ziegenhorn, Marketing & Events Director. MindDrive technology and analytics curriculum in all business programs. We have redesigned all of our undergraduate technology core Room 219 courses, created new undergraduate majors, created three new graduate certificates and a new master’s Cheryl McConnell, Dean, degree in business intelligence and analytics. We are all in. Helzberg School of Management It began with conversations with employers, grew into partnerships with organizations, and necessitated & Associate Vice President of substantial faculty development and support. Come learn what we learned – what went well and what .Academic Affairs 6 didn’t go so well. Let’s talk about what it takes to design, support, and deliver transformed curriculum. Rockhurst University 7 Concurrent Session 2D 1:00-1:50

Using Active Learning Classrooms to Engage Collaboration Room 219

My presentation will be over best practices to practically use active learning to engage collaboration and responsibility among students. By using different activities and the resources in the classroom I will show activities to engage students and encourage collaboration and responsibility for not only learning but producing information for their peers. The presentation will show best practice strategies and time to practice those strategies. Greg Buckman, Social Studies Teacher. Rockhurst High School

Leading Change with Mission in Mind. leArning COMMOns PitCh sPACe This session will be a discussion regarding how to lead a school through major change while maintaining the integrity of a school's identity, mission and vision Greg Harkness, Principal. Rockhurst High School

STEAM Studio Room 319 STEAM Studio is a unique STEAM education program housed in the office of Gould Evans design, run by Dr. Mandi Sonnenberg, tenured professor at Rockhurst University’s Department of Education. STEAM Studio is leveraged as an incubator for innovative STEAM education and a source for valuable research related to methods and space. This session will share best practices on engaging learners in grades K-12, utilization of design thinking to strengthen self-regulation and life-long learning capacities, and integrating powerful volunteer strategies to meet every student at their readiness level David Reid, Principal. Gould Evans. Krishon Harris, Senior at Rockhurst High School Training Citizens for the Digital City Room 312 As the emphasis on STEM in the classroom and curriculum continues to grow, we'll take a look at a variety of ways the civic ecosystem is looking at innovation in education, where there is opportunity for growth, and how STEM subjects are likely to relate to other subjects in an increasingly digital world Aaron Deacon, Managing Director. KC Digital Drive

Equality Opportunity Exposure to STEM Room 107 Laura Leibman, Regional Program Manager. with National Inventor Hall of Fame National Inventor Hall of Fame This session focuses on STEM Professional Development and Pre-K – 9th grade STEM integration into schools and communities throughout the Midwest. During this session, you will participate in hands on activities including creature development and electronic microphone. We will discuss how these programs integrate STEM with real patent holders and mentors for supporting non-traditional student participation, inquiry based learning, personalized and self-directed STEM learning, and performance-based assessment, while focusing on real world applications, STEM literacy, professional development, and so much more. These programs are designed to bring the community together while giving students the confidence to generate ideas, create prototypes, and learn about the invention process VISION Create a world of opportunities for every learner. MISSION Lead and empower the education community to ensure that all learners realize their AdvancED is the largest community of education full potential. VALUES professionals in the world. We are a non-profit, Dream Big. We are not constrained by the current environment or framework even as non-partisan organization that conducts rigorous, on- we work within existing systems. site external reviews of Pre-K-12 schools and school Stand for the Learner. We represent the interests of all learners with a commitment to systems to ensure that all learners realize their full equity and integrity. potential. While our expertise is grounded in more than a hundred years of work in school accreditation, Be Bold and Daring. We take risks that support our beliefs. AdvancED is far from a typical accrediting agency. Drive Potential. We create and initiate change, growth and innovation in our work but Our goal isn’t to certify that schools are good enough. also among each other. We embrace the individuality we bring and strive for excellence Rather, our commitment is to help schools improve. as a team. Tina Woolsey, Ed.D., School Quality Specialist Be Tenacious. We are relentless in pursuing our mission. [email protected] 888-413-3669, ext. 5725 Build Connections. We expand and nurture our internal and external relationships.