Akiva School
Programs
Budget
$15,000.00
Description
The Akiva School is a small institution with big ambitions. As a mature school with clear pedagogic vision, it offers a solid base curriculum and a well-trained leadership team. School leaders hold the school's program in coherent alignment with this vision and are poised to make dramatic progress in the area of STEM instruction. The Akiva School's most important goals, as expressed by its Head of School and lead Technology coordinator, are as follows: 1. Developing a 5 year plan for STEM instruction that strategically imparts key skills across the span of grades K-6 and takes immediate steps towards partial implementation during the 2016-2017 academic year. 2. Developing a close partnership with an Israeli school that will team American and Israeli peers around similar content and project based learning challenges. 3. Positioning Akiva as a regionally distinguished professional development center in STEM instruction for faculty from across the United States. As Akiva pursues these goals, it will need to negotiate several challenges including: 1. Making a coherent place for new content within the existing frame of curriculum 2. Pacing change so that it does not overwhelm the school 3. Training instructional leaders to become content experts in new fields 4. Budgeting adequate resources for immediate and long-term investment We identifiy seven points at which in advancing towards initial goals, as follows. 1. Developing a strategic plan for STEM programming 2. Making the case for STEM with parents and funders 3. Developing curriculum and content for use by Akiva 4. Sourcing and acquiring equipment and software for use by Akiva 5. Initial round of training, coaching and support for Akiva teachers 6. Facilitating partnership with an Israeli school 7. Providing bi-annual PD workshops
Program Areas Served
None
$15,000.00
Description
The Akiva School is a small institution with big ambitions. As a mature school with clear pedagogic vision, it offers a solid base curriculum and a well-trained leadership team. School leaders hold the school's program in coherent alignment with this vision and are poised to make dramatic progress in the area of STEM instruction. The Akiva School's most important goals, as expressed by its Head of School and lead Technology coordinator, are as follows: 1. Developing a 5 year plan for STEM instruction that strategically imparts key skills across the span of grades K-6 and takes immediate steps towards partial implementation during the 2016-2017 academic year. 2. Developing a close partnership with an Israeli school that will team American and Israeli peers around similar content and project based learning challenges. 3. Positioning Akiva as a regionally distinguished professional development center in STEM instruction for faculty from across the United States. As Akiva pursues these goals, it will need to negotiate several challenges including: 1. Making a coherent place for new content within the existing frame of curriculum 2. Pacing change so that it does not overwhelm the school 3. Training instructional leaders to become content experts in new fields 4. Budgeting adequate resources for immediate and long-term investment We identifiy seven points at which in advancing towards initial goals, as follows. 1. Developing a strategic plan for STEM programming 2. Making the case for STEM with parents and funders 3. Developing curriculum and content for use by Akiva 4. Sourcing and acquiring equipment and software for use by Akiva 5. Initial round of training, coaching and support for Akiva teachers 6. Facilitating partnership with an Israeli school 7. Providing bi-annual PD workshops
Program Areas Served
None
