WHAT: STEAM Night event to celebrate STEAM education and engage in the community!

We did it! Learn more at the link…

Applied neuroscience – & STEAM

From STEAM Instructional Specialist Darcy Gill: “Thank you again for coming to our STEAM Night–your station was definitely the talk of the event. I had students do a short write up on their favorite part of STEAM Night and the brains came up a lot! Thanks for the excellent experience you gave our students and families.”

WHERE: Boise-Eliot/Humboldt PK-8 School – 620 N Fremont St, Portland, OR 97227

WHEN: May 17th from 5:30-7:30

Boise-Eliot/Humboldt is a STEAM-focused public school!

LEARN MORE: Boise-Eliot/Humboldt STEAM Vision Statement

From Darshanpreet “Darcy” Gill, the STEAM Instructional Specialist: “So pumped! The brains are already the talk of STEAM Night!”

From their website…

STEAM education is active and has student-centered learning at its core. Through a focus on inquiry-based instruction, we seek to build a STEAM program that focuses on integrated units of study that are place-based and relevant to our students and community.

​We will use experiential learning opportunities to ignite curiosity and provide an opportunity for reflection, challenging students’ initial beliefs and guiding them in the formation of deeper questions from multiple perspectives. Through this work, we hope to build a program that connects the classroom to stewardship empowering Boise-Eliot/Humboldt students to take action and educate others as they move along the path toward college and 21st century careers.

The Portland Metro STEM Partnership is a regional collaboration of public and private organizations with a shared goal of transforming science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for K-12 students.

Through the development and implementation of innovative STEAM teaching and learning practices, all Oregon students will develop the necessary scientific literacy and technological knowledge they need to excel as citizens of our increasingly complex world.

The STEAM transformation of Boise-Eliot/Humboldt will be accomplished by striving towards the following student goals/outcomes:

1. Motivational Resilience: Constructive Coping
Students will demonstrate proficiency in adaptive strategizing skills and persistence in the face of academic challenges, obstacles, and setbacks

2. Motivational Resilience: Academic Engagement
Students demonstrate high quality participation in academic work, including effort and enthusiasm

3. Cognitive Skills: Metacognitive Skills
Students will know a variety of problem solving strategies and tools and be able to choose and strategically use these tools

4. Cognitive Skills: Problem Solving
Students will be able to identify, frame, and solve complex problems and apply knowledge and skills to novel problems and/or situations across STEAM subjects

5. Academic Identity
Students will feel a sense of belonging, competency, autonomy and purpose as they view themselves and their potential to enjoy and succeed in STEAM classes and careers

We visited STEAM Night at another Portland Public School earlier this year..!

STEAM Ahead @ Ionotropic Irvington

Come join us! Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
McKenzie Figuracion, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Sam Carpenter, OHSU
Joey Seuferling, Noggin Resource Council
Jacob Schoen, PSU/Noggin Resource Council