Impact Narrative:

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Integrating the GSE standards into daily instruction is crucial to our success as a STEAM school. Aligned and driven by the standards, our PBL units are organized in a meaningful and authentic way to spark student inquiry and problem-solving initiatives. Our STEAM program is driven by the central ideas and lines of inquiry in our projects. All STEAM inquiry relates and expands upon these key elements. Teachers, along with our STEAM Team, collaborate to review and internalize PBL units before learning facilitation, unit instruction, and after-learning reflection to ensure we are providing high quality interdisciplinary teaching to our scholars. 

 

As a way to measure teacher facilitation and curriculum success, teachers and the STEAM team also review scholars reflections at the end of every unit. This gives opportunity to reflect how well the scholars processed and understood the curriculum delivered in an interdisciplinary framework.

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This year, Centennial Academy hired a Director of Data and Analytics to support with collecting and disaggregating data from our STEAM Program to inform the continued strength of our STEAM/Interdisciplinary frameworks.

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Strengths:

Director of Data and Analytics 

Project Based Learning, K-8

STEAM Team Think Tank

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Initiatives/Actions:

PBL Champions

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Artifacts:

3rd Grade Tiny House Project Overview

3rd Grade PBL Project Overview

7th Grade PBL Unit Planning Form

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