Using curiosity and questioning as guiding principles, this type of instruction centers learning on solving a problem or answering a question through interaction and exploration.
STEM Excellence Pathway
The Riverside County Office of Education is proud to partner with the Carnegie Science Center to provide the STEM Implementation Pathway to our schools throughout Riverside County.
The STEM Implementation Pathway...
is a self-reflection tool that will enable your school or district to develop a strategic plan for improving STEM education that is tailored to your programmatic needs.
The pathway process is flexible enough to be useful to schools of diverse size, budget, population, geographic location, and organizational structure. Each school and district is unique in its needs, so a one-size-fits-all “solution” rarely works as intended.
The pathway is a strategic-planning framework that schools or districts, known as “partners,” can use to determine what constitutes success in improving STEM education in their community.
Will you join our regional community of Pathway Partners?
To become a STEM Implementation Pathway Partner and begin your journey call Kelley Ambriz at kambriz@rcoe.us.
What is STEM Education?
Pillar 1 - Inquiry-Based Education
Pillar 2 - Integrated Curriculum
Eliminating siloed instruction highlights the relevance of content and facilitates students’ abilities to apply diverse knowledge and skill sets to complex problems—just like in the real world.
Pillar 3 - Project-Based Group Learning
Engaging teams of students in solving real-world problems helps them develop STEM competencies such as teamwork, communication, creativity, innovation, problem solving, and critical thinking.
By exposing students to professionals and their careers, they learn how essential STEM skills apply to the work environment and begin to imagine greater possibilities for their own futures.
STEP Programs
The Science and Technology Education Partnership (STEP) was established to bridge the skills gap between our K-12 students and high-technology industry needs. STEP produces its flagship science and technology education event every year, the STEP Conference for students and for educators.
The first of its kind in the region, this conference serves to ignite the imagination of thousands of students, so that they might pursue promising careers in high-technology fields. It also provides hands-on training to hundreds of K-12 teachers, ensuring they have the latest tools to keep our students competitive in the global marketplace.
The STEM Summer Learning labs are geared for high school students with the goal of inspiring students to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
The Riverside County Office of Education is a proud sponsor of the STEP Programs. The STEP programs are an integral part of our STEM Ecosystem.
Each year STEPCon features three separate but complementary conferences: one for students and one for educators: Student STEPCon and Educator STEPCon.