STEAM
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STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach.
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Put simply, our nation has an abundance of jobs in STEAM fields and a shortage of qualified trained Americans to fill those jobs. See the accompanying infographic from Washington STEM.
There is a growing movement to include the Arts in STEM. Why? As Steve Jobs, the late founder of Apple, said "...it’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough — that it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing.”
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John Sedgwick’s STE(A)M mission is to graduate “STEAM-literate” students who are able to apply their understanding of how the world works within and across the five interrelated STEAM disciplines.
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John Sedgwick’s “STEAM Team” has developed a 5-year implementation plan which includes systematic professional development and training for teachers and piloting of Project Lead the Way, a STEM-focused science curriculum, in 7th and 8th grade. Future adoption of a common interdisciplinary Engineering and Design Process and piloting of an interdisciplinary teaching team with a STEAM focus are also in the works.