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The Innovation Collaborative's website represents the organization's goals and values, which include serving as a national forum to foster creativity, innovation, and lifelong learning for STEAM education and professional development. THE INNOVATION COLLABORATIVE SERVES AS A NATIONAL FORUM TO FOSTER CREATIVITY, INNOVATION, AND LIFELONG LEARNING. We identify and disseminate information about the many ways that effective integration of the arts, sciences, humanities, engineering, and the use of technology reinforce teaching and incorporate lifelong learning in both in-school (formal) and out-of-school (informal) settings. Spring Newsletter promo Spring Newsletter Join the Innovation Collaborative Click here to subscribe to the Innovation Collaborative. STEAM Summit Promo Click here to see Keynote presentations from the 2025 STEAM Summit and more. Spring Newsletter promo Spring Newsletter 1/3 READ THE SPRING NEWSLETTER COLLABORATIVE TO OFFER STEAM K-12 LESSONS

Programs Module 1: What is STEAM? View Details Module 2: Ways of Thinking and Doing View Details Module 3: Integrating Standards View Details Module 4: Adapting a Lesson to STEAM View Details Innovation Collaborative - STEAM Certificate View Details

RESEARCH THOUGHT LEADERS Our Research Thought Leaders are nationally known educators and researchers who integrate creative and innovative thinking with learning in the sciences, arts, and cognition. They represent both K-12 (formal) and Out-of-School Time (informal) learning. The Innovation Collaborative’s ongoing conversations with these Thought Leaders provide the deep underpinning of our work. This partnership not only stimulates Collaborative research about learning at the intersections of these disciplines but also informs the Thought Leaders’ work. Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman Founder and Chief Director of the Center for BrainHealth and Dee Wyly Distinguished Professor of BrainHealth, University of Texas, Dallas Dr. Rob Horowitz Executive Director ArtsResearch Associate Director Center for Arts Education Research Teachers College, Columbia University Dr. Bonnie Cramond Professor of Educational Psychology, Gifted and Creative Education, at the University of Georgia, and the former Director of the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development, researches the assessment and development of creativity Dr. Bob Root-Bernstein Professor Emeritus, Department of Physiology, Michigan State University Rochelle Darville Fulbright and NSTA Awardee High School Science Teacher West St. John High School, Edgard, Louisiana Dr. Jean Ryoo Director of Research, Computer Science Equity Project, University of California Los Angeles Center X

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INNOVATION COLLABORATIVE STEAM EDUCATOR & ADMINISTRATOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT The Innovation Collaborative is now offering its successful research-based STEAM professional development to teachers, administrators, and schools across the US. This is an opportunity to become an active participant in a dynamic community of learners interested in STEAM best practices. The training is available in-person or online. Created jointly with the Collaborative’s national education institutions, this professional development builds on five years of Collaborative research into the most effective practices for bringing STEAM learning to K-12 students of all populations. Choose from the following professional development opportunities: In-person, including virtual support (for groups, with a max of 15 participants) 1 day (STEAM basics). $1500 plus expenses 2 days (STEAM basics plus classroom applications). $2500 plus expenses Online (for individuals or groups, with a max of 15 participants) Level 1 (STEAM basics): 15 hours. $150/person Level 2 (STEAM applications to classroom): 15 hours. $170/person Levels 1 and 2 combined (basics and application to classrooms): 30 hours. Discounted to $300/person Groups of 3 or more receive an additional 10% discount. Conducted with a combination of synchronous and asynchronous learning. Worth knowing: These trainings can be customized to meet the needs of specific schools and districts. Graduates can earn micro-credentials as STEAM educators. For more information or to register, contact Lucinda Presley, Collaborative Executive Director, at lpresley@innovationcollaborative.org .

A community of STEAM educators, researchers and school leaders met for the National Innovation Collaborative’s free virtual Summit on October 17, 2024. CONTENT FROM THE 2024 STEAM SUMMIT Building Learning Through the Intersection of Sciences & the Arts Introduction by Lucinda Presley, Innovation Collaborative Executive Director Keynotes by two visionary leaders focusing on the intersection of arts and sciences and how educators, administrators, and parents can use STEAM education to help their students succeed in both in and out-of-school-time learning ecosystems. Short, fast-paced conversations between a researcher, educator and school administrator centering on the needs and proactive strategies that will put STEAM education at the center of learning for all students. Breakout sessions in which all registrants are encouraged to attend, addressing: STEAM lessons and classroom strategies; Bringing STEAM to out-of-school-time learning programs; The importance of equity and inclusion in STEAM; Funding STEAM collaboration for research and programs; Creativity and STEAM; Integrating the arts into the science classroom. A community of STEAM educators, researchers and school leaders met for the National Innovation Collaborative’s free virtual Summit on October 17, 2024, featuring: Lucinda Presley, Innovation Collaborative Executive Director Thank you for your interest in this pivotal STEM to STEAM conversation about the arts in science, and science in the arts! You can create an account with The Innovation Collaborative's website HERE , which gives you free access to all the organization’s resources. LEARN MORE

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The Innovation Collaborative completed a four-year National Endowment for the Arts-funded national research project. It determined the most effective practices that promote important workforce-related creative and innovative thinking skills at the intersections of the Sciences, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Math (STEAM) and mandated content in K-12 teacher/administrator professional development and classroom implementation. K-12 EFFECTIVE PRACTICES THE RESEARCH The Innovation Collaborative completed a four-year National Endowment for the Arts-funded national research project. It determined the most effective practices that promote important workforce-related creative and innovative thinking skills at the intersections of the Sciences, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Math (STEAM) and mandated content in K-12 teacher/administrator professional development and classroom implementation. These and subsequent studies are developed through collaborations with university researchers, content leaders, teachers, administrators, and the Innovation Collaborative’s Research Thought Leaders. This research is helping provide a strong research-based foundation for the growing STEAM movement. STEAM TEACHER/ADMINISTRATOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT An important outgrowth of this research is the Collaborative’s STEAM Teacher/Administrator Professional Development. In this training, educators and administrators learn what STEAM is, the important thinking skills it elicits, how to integrate state standards, ways to deepen STEAM experiences, and how to create their own lessons.

THOUGHT LEADERS' RESEARCH Our Research Thought Leaders are a group of selected, nationally-known researchers who integrate innovation thinking in sciences, arts, humanities, cognition, and creativity with education. Regular conversations among group members will inform their own work, as well as that of the Innovation Collaborative, including the Effective Practices project. Their efforts will also stimulate further research about learning at the intersections of these disciplines.

THE RESEARCH This Innovation Collaborative, in partnership with Texas Southern University, has completed a two-year National Science Foundation-funded study of where STEAM (Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) is in Out-of-School Time nationally in relation to serving all students and where it would be beneficial to head next. Participants 70 leading STEAM Out-of-School Time researchers and practitioners from a variety of institutions and geographical locations across the U. S. participated. Participants also joined the project from Canada and Germany. They Looked At The wide variety of Out-of-School Time learning experiences Youth aged early childhood through high school The various intersections of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) with the arts in a variety of learning settings In-person experiences that were a result of specific programming. Topics Investigated Participant surveys at the outset of the project determined the 7 leading topics. These were investigated in topic-based cohorts. The cohorts were: Belonging and Identity Enhancing Professional Learning Capacity for Informal Educators Integrating the Arts with STEM to Promote Learning and Thinking Intersections of Formal and Informal Learning STEAM Creative/Innovative Thinking STEAM for All Understanding the Importance of Well-Being and STEAM What Do You Mean by Interdisciplinary Learning? In this project, interdisciplinary learning is the process of integrating disciplines and concepts in a variety of ways. Actions could include concepts’ interacting, blending, linking, synthesizing, or transforming. Examples of interdisciplinary learning could be: In an art museum, using the iterative engineering design process to create kinetic sculptures In a science museum, integrating a study of plants with explorations of landscape architecture and irrigation engineering that could be combined with an illustrated creative writing exercise. How Will This Research Benefit Me as a Practitioner? This project’s Final Report will provide the important findings, recommended next steps, and further resources to explore from each of these cohorts

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