What We Do
STEMSTL partners work collaboratively on systems-level solutions to connect schools, STEM learning institutions, employers and family members around high-quality, rigorous STEM learning and workforce opportunities.
Currently, ecosystem partners are building solutions to the following needs identified through ecosystem visioning sessions:
- Working collectively to define, and advance high-quality STEM teacher professional development through peer learning
- Connecting STEM educators to employers to understand real workforce needs of the future, and equipping them with the skills to prepare students accordingly
- Mapping out “STEM deserts” in our region, and developing a strategy ensuring all young people have access to high-quality out of school STEM learning
- Raising the awareness of the importance of STEM learning with families
The 5 Strategic Foci.
Guiding our work, we focus our theory of change on the following:
Centralizing Communications
about STEM learning opportunities.
Increasing the Rigor
of STEM learning opportunities.
Identifying Gaps
in STEM learning opportunities and filling them.
Aligning STEM learning
to St. Louis workforce needs.
Strengthening Connectivity
of the ecosystem in order to serve STEM learners.
Paving the way with our values.
Guiding our work, we promise to always enact the following:
Be Inclusive:
Be intentionally inclusive to engage a broad range of individuals, families, groups, and a cross-sector of institutions to ensure diverse perspectives shape our ecosystem.
Focus on Equitable Systems:
Ensure children, youth, and adult learners of all backgrounds and identities (especially gender and race) have equitable access to and opportunity to participate in high-quality STEM learning.
Learn Continuously:
Foster a collaborative, research-informed, data-driven process that enables a culture of continuous improvement.
Be Respectful:
Create a respectful, empowering space that enables consistent communication, honest feedback, transparency, and authentic, open dialogue.
Take Risks:
Develop and sustain a hub for innovation and experimentation related to STEM learning by encouraging risk-taking and piloting new practices.
Leverage the Ecosystem:
Sustain an ecosystem structure that leverages existing resources through collaborative planning and new investments that scale impact and address gaps.
Learn more about the current workgroups.
Updates on our Work
Learn more about the STEMSTL Key 2020 projects.
