School Rosters and Teacher Resources

Dear Teachers, 

1. Please do not share the PBL teacher guides with students.

2. Ensure that every student in the digital presentation has a media release form signed by their parents or legal guardian. See the blank copy below.

3. Ensure there is no copyright or privacy violation. All pictures and videos are original (If copyrighted images will be used or the copyright status is not known, the participants will have to properly credit/cite* the elements in their movie)

STEM SOS PBL Model is integrated with 21st Century Skills. You may use Google Resources to teach internet safety and digital citizenship

HPS PBL Implementation

Dear 6-12 STEM teachers,

Level II-III project assignments will be made by each STEM subject area teacher (GR 6-12). 

All secondary STEM teachers MUST implement Level II/III PBLs in at least one of the three options below:

• Implement as an after school club.

• Implement as an enrichment option for a class (e.g. extra credit assignment).

• Implement as a mandatory project assignment as a course requirement.

Action items;

1. Please prepare project idea list for your students and post it on your Syllabus

2. The teachers must announce their choice for PBL Level II/III implementation and grading policy on their syllabi.

STEM Teachers: Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, DFW, H.South, H. North

Sample PBL E-Portfolios Level 2-3 (Never Share with Students)

Instruction for PBL submissions through SKYWARD

District STEM Coaches;

• • Houston South and West- Suleyman Gecmenler <sgecmenler@harmonytx.org>

  • Houston North- Yilmaz Kahraman <ykahraman@harmonytx.org>

  • North Texas (8-12)- Adam Unlu <adam.unlu@harmonytx.org>

  • North Texas (7-5)- Rana Hijazi < rhijazi@harmonytx.org>

  • Central Texas- Ramazan Ozdemir <rozdemir@harmonytx.org>

  • West Texas El Paso- Imran Aydogdu <iaydogdu@harmonytx.org>

  • West Texas Lubbock Odessa Midland - Murat Soruc <msoruc@harmonytx.org> 

  • South Texas- Abdullah Cakanlar <acakanlar@harmonytx.org> 

Contact information for curriculum directors;

• • Physics Dept. Levent Sakar <lsakar@harmonytx.org>

  • Chemistry Dept. - Yen Hoang Le Nguyen <ynguyen@harmonytx.org>

  • Biology Dept.  Farjana Yasmin <fyasmin@harmonytx.org>

  • MS Science Dept. Halim Sakarya <hsakarya@harmonytx.org>

  • Math Dept. Ismail Savruk <isavruk@harmonytx.org>

  • SS Dept. Robert Thornton <rthornton@harmonytx.org>

• • ELA Dept. Keri Bell <kbell@harmonytx.org>

PBL Judges: 

• MS Math: Aydin Targil <atargil@harmonytx.org>

• HS Math: Aydin Targil <atargil@harmonytx.org>

• MS Science: Halim Sakarya <hsakarya@harmonytx.org>

• MS Science: Merve Gokgol <mgokgol@harmonytx.org>  

• MS Technology/Gateway: Gurbey Demirturk <gurbey.demirturk@harmonytx.org>

• HS Physics: Yusuf Dogan <yusuf.dogan@harmonytx.org>

• HS Chemistry: Yen Hoang Le Nguyen <ynguyen@harmonytx.org>

• HS Life Science: Farjana Yasmin <fyasmin@harmonytx.org>

• HS Environmental Science: Farjana Yasmin <fyasmin@harmonytx.org>

• HS Forensic Science: Farjana Yasmin <fyasmin@harmonytx.org>

• HS BioMed/Health Science: Farjana Yasmin <fyasmin@harmonytx.org> 

• HS Engineering: Yusuf Dogan <yusuf.dogan@harmonytx.org>

• HS Technology/Computer Sci (Including Design and Multimedia Arts): Sakine Toptas <stoptas@harmonytx.org>

• HS Technology/Comp Sci (Including Design and Multimedia Arts): Mikail Alici <malici@harmonytx.org>

• K-5 STEM: Janet Nimer <janetp.nimer@harmonytx.org> 

• K-8 Tech App: Sakine Toptas <stoptas@harmonytx.org> 

Dear STEM Educator,

If you would like to receive emails about STEM subjects and subscribe to the STEM email groups, please send a blank email with No subject to the following email addresses that you are teaching or interested in.  

• CTE Teachers: cte+subscribe@harmonytx.org

• Technology Teachers: technology.teachers+subscribe@harmonytx.org

• K-5 STEM teachers: elementary.STEM+subscribe@harmonytx.org  

• K-8 Science Teachers: science+subscribe@harmonytx.org

• Physics Teachers: physics+subscribe@harmonytx.org

• Biology Teachers: biology.teachers+subscribe@harmonytx.org

• Biomedical and health science Teachers: biomed+subscribe@harmonytx.org

• Chemistry Teachers: chemistry.teachers+subscribe@harmonytx.org

• Engineering Teachers: Engineering+subscribe@harmonytx.org

• PLTW Gateway Teachers: gateway+subscribe@harmonytx.org

• Math Teachers: stem.math+subscribe@harmonytx.org (Only for STEM events and PBL-Math)

• Campus GT/STEM Coordinators: GTSTEM.Campus+subscribe@harmonytx.org

To unsubscribe from any group and stop receiving emails from it, send a blank email to; (Please do not send emails to anyone for unsubscription) 

• elementary.STEM+unsubscribe@harmonytx.org

• science+unsubscribe@harmonytx.org

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• biology.teachers+unsubscribe@harmonytx.org

• biomed+unsubscribe@harmonytx.org

• chemistry.teachers+unsubscribe@harmonytx.org

• Engineering+unsubscribe@harmonytx.org

• gateway+unsubscribe@harmonytx.org

• stem.math+unsubscribe@harmonytx.org

• technology.teachers+unsubscribe@harmonytx.org

• cte+unsubscribe@harmonytx.org

• GTSTEM.Campus+unsubscribe@harmonytx.org

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Recommendation: Attach a media release form with your Syllabus. You can find the media release forms attached below at the bottom of the page

If you are also sharing the student projects through social media, please use #STEMSOS, so that we can SHARE & SHINE you and your students' projects

This is how it looks when you use #STEMSOS in Twitter and Facebook

• https://twitter.com/search?q=%23STEMSOS&src=hashtag_click&f=live

• https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/stemsos