Maine STEM Partnership
The mission the Maine STEM Partnership is to build and sustain a diverse, statewide community that strengthens PK – 16+ STEM education 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.
Resources and Events
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.