Awakening Your STEM School: Assuring A Job-Ready Workforce

by Aaron Smith, Bud Ramey (With)

Overview

Dr. Aaron Smith, the director of a pioneering STEM public school, answers the question, “How can educators transform an ordinary STEM site into an inspired, premiere learning center?” “Awakening Your STEM School” provides a proven framework for teachers, administrators, and business partners offering forty-two actions and ideas with over 300 tips to transformation. Dr. Smith’s passionate approach is simple and focused; prepared just for teachers, principals, and business leaders who are daily cobbling together their STEM school, seeking inspiration and valuable suggestions. No matter where a school or program is in the advancement toward STEM education, the catalyst for transformation is already there – residing in the heart of the teachers and leadership.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633930612
Publisher:	Dr. Aaron L. Smith
Publication date:	04/27/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	230
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Dr. Aaron L. Smith has been in education for eighteen years serving middle, high and college students as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, program director, and adjunct professor. His experiences as a math teacher combined with having real world experiences with NASA gives him make him an expert in STEM development and implementation. Other works that he has been involved in include dropout prevention/recovery and freshmen promotion to which he was awarded the Crystal Star Award from the National Dropout Prevention Center. His program, Denbigh High School – Aviation Academy, has been cited numerous awards from the Society of Manufactured Engineers to the Virginia Department of Education as well as being listed in the Virginia Living Magazine as a top 100 schools in the state. Dr. Smith is also a 2014 recipient of an ING Unsung Hero award.

Editorial Reviews

"Every educator and business leader in America knows that STEM is vital, and that this is where we need to go. Awakening Your STEM School offers us a guide for business leaders and educators on how to get there together."
-Josh Cramer, Senior Educational Programs Officer, SME Education Foundation

"Teachers and administrators can use this book as a guide to develop and implement other innovative approaches to enhance STEM learning in their school, community, and state."
-Dr. Roger A. Hathaway, Special STEM Programs Manager, NASA

"Dr. Smith uses his experiences with real students and their stories to illustrate his ideas about how make a STEM school work. This book will inspire educators to think "out of the box" about how to really motivate students and parents to engage with STEM."
-Dr. Marsha Sprague, Director of Teacher Preparation, Christopher Newport University

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