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St. Charles 303 highlights districtwide elementary STEM rollout and student projects
Summary
District 303 presented an update on its new elementary STEM pathway, featuring Project Lead The Way curriculum, hands-on learning, and an April 22 district STEM night; teachers reported strong student engagement and shared early assessment results.
St. Charles Community Unit School District 303 on Jan. 13 updated the board and the public on the first-year rollout of a districtwide elementary STEM pathway, including curriculum choices, classroom practices and early assessment results.
The STEM team said the program replaces the previous Empower approach and uses Project Lead The Way (PLTW) curriculum across elementary grades. Tanya Hernandez, lead STEM teacher, said teachers devoted extensive unpaid time over the last year to adapt materials and to write curriculum for the new pathway. "This team ... are a committed group," Hernandez said.
District staff framed the STEM work as part of the district strategic plan’s instructional-coherence priority, noting the pathway is intended to provide a guaranteed and viable curriculum and common end-of-unit assessments that let the district monitor progress across grades. The presentation highlighted that the district began administering a science assessment (referred to as "inner orbit" in the…
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