STEM Boot Camp - 2022-23 School Year

We are excited to share with you a great opportunity we have for virtual, free, year-long STEM professional development focused on learning more about integrating STEM, problem-based learning, and our free STEM Road Map curriculum published by NSTA!

We are happy to introduce the STEM Boot Camp Academy - designed and delivered by the authors of the STEM Road Map curriculum series published by NSTA. Participants in this PD will receive FREE PD, one FREE STEM Road Map curriculum book, and a year-long opportunity to work with teachers across the U.S. to learn how to implement integrated STEM in their middle and high school classrooms. 

You will receive support to develop YOUR OWN, integrated STEM PBL unit, aligned with your standards and couched in your local context or a global problem of interest to your students.

The program includes 70 total hours of professional development (you will have this documented in your completion certificate) – spread across the 2022-23 school year. There will be one three-hour meeting each month in the evening (total of 30 hours), as well as an estimated 3 hours each month of independent work (30 hours), and participation in the STEM Boot Camp Academy Showcase in June 2023 (8 hours) dates TBD. 
Participants will receive a copy of one of the STEM Road Map curriculum books - see info here on NSTA website:
https://www.nsta.org/book-series/stem-road-map-curriculum
Monthly sessions include both east and west coast options with start times of 3:30 p.m. EST and 7:30 p.m. EST.

• Teachers in the STEM Boot Camp Academy will learn how to enable high school students to work toward mastery of the important 21st Century Skills. Cognitive, intrapersonal, and interpersonal skills and abilities to successfully function as citizens, workers, and leaders in the 21st Century workforce are critical. 
• Teachers in the STEM Boot Camp Academy will learn how to use problem and project-based pedagogy. Problem-based learning is grounded in a scenario, challenge, or problem. 
• Teachers in the STEM Boot Camp Academy program will learn how to increase family and community Engagement.
• Teachers will be provided support to develop their own integrated STEM, problem-based learning unit aligned with their state/local standards and grounded in a real-world problem or local challenge. 
• Teachers will join a network of over 200 other teachers virtually across the country who are members of the STEM Boot Camp Academy program and will receive free curriculum and workshop materials.
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Culminating EventThe STEM Boot Camp Academy participating teachers will showcase their work in the STEM Boot Camp Academy Summer Session Showcase in June 2023, a two-part virtual conference where teachers will share posters/presentations of their developed curriculum and artifacts from using this with their students.All teachers who complete the STEM Boot Camp Professional Development program will receive a certificate of completion and digital badge they can include in their online profiles. Developed curricula from STEM Boot Camp Participants will be made available to all participants through an online gallery (using Google Drive folder).

PROGRAM SCHEDULE:The schedule for the program is listed below. Participants need only attend one option per date across the year. There are early afternoon and evening options to provide flexibility with your schedule. It is expected that participants plan to attend all sessions. If for some reason you are unable to attend, sessions will be recorded and made available to participants. 

Participants will select to attend on these dates either the early session (3:30-6:30 EST) or the late session (7:30 to 10:30 EST)

September 8

September 22

October 27

November 10

December 15

January 26

February 16

March 23

April 27

May 18

TBD - Coming Soon

Use this link to sign up for our upcoming cohort in 2023!