The Maine STEM Partnership (MSP), is a community of teachers who have joined the the RiSE Center with the mission of building and sustaining a diverse, statewide community that strengthens PK – 16+ STEM education. The MSP achieves this by promoting rich, research-supported classroom experiences that deepen learning and engage all students. This community seeks to build STEM literacy and career competency, and to encourage students to become STEM educators and education researchers.
MSP Values
Our work will be guided and informed by our commitments to:
Access – We will work to engage, value, and support all educators and learners to help meet their specific needs.
Research – We will model and inform professional learning at all levels by research-guided best practices.
Respect – We will maintain a learner-centered environment in which participants’ time and professional expertise are valued.
Community – We will promote and sustain a diverse and collaborative professional community.
Annual Summit
The RiSE Center Summit brings together MSP educators, faculty, and staff in a collaborative space to discuss challenges in STEM education and explore innovative teaching strategies. Through meaningful discussions and peer learning, participants share experiences, exchange ideas, and work together to find solutions that enhance STEM teaching and learning across Maine.
For more information, check out our Archive.
Pinnacles Resources
The MSP is responsible for the creation of the RiSE Center Pinnacles Resources.
The Pinnacles Program, Pandemic-Inspired Learning Experiences in the STEM Disciplines, is a curated collection of active and engaging instructional activities that can be used in a variety of instructional modes. Each learning experience designates the type(s) of instructional environment (e.g., online synchronous, online asynchronous) where the student will be successful with the concepts.
The learning experience guide also includes the science or mathematics standards that are covered by the resource, formative assessment tools including discussion prompts, as well as teacher and student directions for making the experience engaging.
These learning experiences were created by middle school and high school science and mathematics teachers and reviewed by university faculty, school administrators and additional middle school and high school science and mathematics teachers.
If you are interested in working with these materials please contact Beth Byerssmall at elizabeth.byerssmall@maine.edu.