Siemens STEM Resources

Check out the Siemens STEM Academy site, where you'll find a calendar of upcoming webinars, blogs, and other STEM resources.

Principals' Leadership Sets the Tone for Success

Healthy School Communities [article]

Principal leadership matters. In fact, the recent evaluation of the Healthy School Communities (HSC) pilot project showed that the role of the principal was the most critical piece of the puzzle in implementing meaningful school change and school improvement. Other elements were crucial—such as an understanding that health improvement supports school improvement, authentic community collaboration, and the ability to make systemic rather than merely programmatic change—but these pieces more often than not arose via the influence and role the principal took in the implementation of HSC.

Study: U.S. needs better-trained math teachers to compete globally (April 15, 2010)

US Math Teachers Unprepared for the Core Math Standards‏:
“A weak K-12 mathematics curriculum in the U.S., taught by teachers with an inadequate mathematics background, produces high school graduates who are at a disadvantage. When some of these students become future teachers and are not given a strong background in mathematics during teacher preparation, the cycle continues.”
http://news.msu.edu/story/7714/

Student Opportunities and Teacher Opportunities

There are amazing summer opportunities that are cheap, free, and some that even pay the participant a stipend. Check out these links that change often.

STUDENT:

1. Mr. Bujak's delicious links for "StudentOpportunities"
2. Mr. Bujak's diigo links for "StudentOpportunities"
3. Use the "Search this Blog" search box and enter "STUDENT:" without the quotes
4. photos/videos of some student camps, workshops

TEACHERS:

1. Mr. Bujak's delicious links for "TeacherOpportunities"
2. Mr. Bujak's diigo links for "TeacherOpportunities"
3. Use the "Search this Blog" search box and enter "TEACHER:" without the quotes
4. photos/videos of some teacher camps, workshops

-- Mr. Bujak

Ten Big Ideas Of School Leadership | Edutopia

Ten Big Ideas Of School Leadership | Edutopia

Principal Mike McCarthy shares 30 years of wisdom on how to run a school well.

Survey: Educators aren’t discussing STEM careers with students

Survey: Educators aren't discussing STEM careers with students

Google Fusion Tables - Nice!

Google Fusion Tables - great data analysis, display tool from Google. Implications in helping students organize/display/analyze/evaluate data is incredible. You import a CSV file and you can visualize you data in a: map, intensity map, line, bar, pie, scatter, motion, time line. Imported CSV can be multi-line, multi-row, non-numeric, text, images. Also has nice filtering capabilities.

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