Individual STEM-Related Grants from Various Sources

1. Connecticut STEM Careers Partnership - November 2008 through 2012: The U.S. Department of Labor awarded a $2 million grant to the Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board for a STEM Careers Partnership. The award will be used to establish a STEM Careers Partnership among the state's workforce investment boards and create a statewide virtual STEM Center . The STEM Center will serve as an initial point of entry to the One-Stop system for dislocated workers and disadvantaged youth by providing resources and classrooms for STEM-related activities. Contact is John Beauregard, Executive Director, Eastern CT Workforce Investment Board Inc., Ph. 860-859-4100 x14, beauregardj@ewib.org
   
2. CT Algebra I Curriculum and End-of-Course Assessment Program - January 2009 : The CT Academy for Education, in partnership with the Associ at ion of Teachers of M at hem at ics in Connecticut (ATOMIC), the Connecticut Council of Leaders of M at hem at ics (CCLM), the M at hem at ics Basic Skills Council of Connecticut (MBSCC), the M at hem at ical Associ at ion of Two-Year Colleges of CT (M at yCONN), and the Project to Increase Mastery of M at hem at ics and Science (PIMMS), received a CT State Department of Education grant to develop and deliver a rigorous and engaging CT Algebra I Curriculum. The project includes specific learning expect at ions with examples, organized into coherent instructional units with sample lessons for each unit, as well as examples of form at ive, interim, and model end-of-course assessments. The collaboration will also develop and deliver a model for the professional development of teachers and the ir schools/districts th at will support the ir transition to the model Algebra I curriculum. Contact Terri Clark at the CT Academy for Education tclark@ctacad.org .
   
3. CT After School STEM Middle and Secondary School Modules - August 2008 : The CT Academy for Education facilitated a partnership with the CT Academy of Science & Engineering (CASE), CT Career Choices (CCC), the CT Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT), the CT Pre-Engineering Program (CPEP), the CT Women's Education & Legal Fund (CWEALF), the Center for 21 st Century Skills@Education Connection (C21 st CS), the School of Engineering and Technology at Central CT State University (CCSU), and the SE CT Science & Technology Magnet High School (SE Magnet) to develop a CT Middle and High School STEM After School Program for students at the middle and high school levels for the CT State Department of Education. The six curricula are being piloted in CT schools during the 2008/09 school year. Contact, Terri Clark at the CT Academy – tclark@ctacad.org.
   
4. CT After School STEM Report to Legislature's Education Committee - January 2007 : The CT Academy of Science & Engineering and CT Academy for Education conducted a study on the Impact of Supplementary Science, Technology, Engineering, and Ma the matics (STEM) Programs. The study's objective was to identify the best practice characteristics of STEM programs outside the formal education environment – Out-of-School Tim e (OST) and examine cost-benefit analysis procedures and teacher training activities for OST-STEM-related programs. Contact, Rick Strauss at CASE rstrauss@case.org .

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