Partnerships
The leadership team has worked closely with the EWAT (Educational Workforce Advisory Team) to receive feedback throughout the process. During the planning process, members of the leadership team and EWAT, as well as other school staff, visited various models to determine which would be the best response to the identified needs. Throughout this process, the EWAT partnership resulted in increased support from the community. Recently, the leadership team shared the overall proposal with the EWAT. The members responded with questions and comments focused on how they could help support the program and its implementation. The district is looking forward to the continued partnerships with EWAT members and other industry partners. Increased responsivity to industry needs is a component that is outlined throughout the implementation plan and is part of the evaluation. To ensure this ongoing review, the district has quarterly Leadership Team meetings and bi-annual EWAT Team meetings to reevaluate the grant and the effectiveness of the implementation.
4.1 Community Partner Feedback
Community partners are asked to reflect on their engangement with our teachers and students after each engagement. This is done informally when closing up the projects with our community parthers. At the end of each school year, community partners are asked to complete a survey to express their thoughts on the school's progress.
Based off of feedback from surveys, each year we create next steps to allow us to keep working forward to meet our community's changing needs that are expressed on the surveys.
Next Steps
2019-20 - see top image to right
2020-21 - see middle image to right
2021-22 - see bottom image to right
EWAT Team / Community Members:
Amy Fellers, Branch Manager @ Crane Federal Credit Union
Barb Strahley, Human Resources @ NSWC Crane
Brent Courter, Financial Strategist @ Edward Jones
Chad Wade, Insurance Agent @ Farm Bureau Insurance
Noel Harty, City of Loogootee Mayor
Phillip Smith, Supervisory Engineer @ NSWC Crane
Pam Loughmiller, Loughmiller Tool and Design
Travis Summers, Mechanical Engineer @ NSWC Crane
Brooke Hawkins, Chiropractor @ Hawkins Health
Design Team Meeting Email with Members Listed as Receipients
EWAT (Educational Workforce Advisory Team) / Design Team Meeting Attendance Sheet
EWAT (Educational Workforce Advisory Team) Meeting - see image on right
4.2 STEM Career Exploration
LMS is incorporating career pathway exploration into their curriculum. The Design Team for the corporation is currently working to create a calendar for the exploration of our four pathways. One pathway will be focused on each term to show students careers in each pathway. Students will be exposed to the following STEM career pathways throughout the school year:
Life & Biomedical Sciences
Business & Humanities
Applied Engineering & Advanced Manufacturing
Computer Science & Cybersecurity
In our facility, we have incorporated a makerspace area for students to explore STEM careers and activities. Pathway Guiding Documents have been completed. These documents serve as a foundation for activities that are used in all classrooms of a grade level and lists the community partners for various activities.
Students in all grade levels are given a career interest survey. LMS students take the Holland Code (RIASEC) Test. RIASEC stands for 6 characteristics: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. The RIASEC test asks students questions about their aspirations, activities, skills, and interests in different jobs to help them discover careers and fields of study that are likely to satisfy them. Data is used to assess student strengths, and pinpoint what classes would be the best fit for a student and for direct career exploration by students. Students are also required to chose 3 careers based on their own interests for which they are interested in gaining more knowledge. Their Holland Code also seves as a map and is directional on which graduation pathway students should follow based on their strengths. LMS students work individually or in group settings with Stephanie Gilbert, the corporation graduation and career coach.
LMS students explore future careers during the Career and College Go Week yearly.
Career and College Go Week 2022 Dress Up Days - see top image on right
All seventh grade students use 220 Leadership software in their mandatory Exploring Pathways class to set goals for their futures.
All students in grade 8 take our Preparing for College and Careers course. Students use Naviance software to explore careers and take career interest inventories. Guest speakers come in on a regular basis to speak with students about possible careers in their fields.
Preparing for College and Careers Guest Speaker - see bottom image on right
The LCSC Design Team met in January of 2021 to take a look at our STEM priorities and decided to focus on Pathway Communication for all grades in the corporation. Marketing and student-to-student / teacher-to-student / industry-to-student communications will be the focus for the corporation and a plan is being established to explore a certain pathway each nine weeks in relation to which PLTW modules are used at each grade level. PLTW modules will be used in a certain order next year so all students in all grade levels focus on exploring one career cluster at a time.
Applied Engineering & Advanced Manufacturing Pathway Guiding Document
Career and College Week - see image on right
Jamboard Created by Desgin Team for Pathway Communication Focus for Grades K-6 (Jan 2021)
4.3 Community Engagement
LMS Community Partners
Hawkins Health Care
Works with Lion Manufacturing business students
Guest speaker for Medical Detectives course
Loughmiller's Tool and Design
Works with Lion Manufacturing students
Representatives from business come in to school weekly
Greg Bateman
Works with publicity class on ways to improve school presence in social media weekly
Jolene's Decorating
Students work with Jolene to enhance areas around town
Loogootee Recycling Center
Students work with recycling center to find ways to reach public to increase recycling in our area
Noel Harty, Mayor of Loogootee
Noel tries to enhance the Loogootee SummerFest yearly. Students work with Noel to find ways to get more members of our community to show up and take part in the festival
Mayor Noel has a large presence in our community and volunteers to help students with various projects that are undertaken
Martin County Community Foundation
Curt Johnson, Director of MCCF, works with teachers and students to fund projects developed by both
NWSC Crane
Crane employees serve on our Lion Manufacturing Advisory Council which meets with students quarterly
Crane employees come in as guest speakers for a variety of classes including careers, math, computer science, and science
RTC Communications - see image on lower right
RTC sends representatives to school to inform students about government funding and communication strategies that are needed in our rural community
Courtney Hugett, Owner / Publisher Martin County Journal - see image below
Courtney serves as a guest speaker
Riley Children's Hospital - see first picture to the right
Representatives work with our students for fundraising purposes
Students develop plans to raise money for worthy recipients
Jessica Potts, Loogootee Beautification Committee
Asks for students to help implment asthetic changes in the City of Loogootee
Dr. Dr Michael Alvarez and Samantha Alvarez, Optomistrist and Wife
Guest Speaker for Career Pathways Course on what it takes to be an optometrist - see bottom image on right
We are conducting PBL projects with community partners in every classroom each year. These projects have our students solving real-world problems for businesses and organizations within their own community. These are again found in our Pathway Guiding Documents and in the PBL activities we have created.
The Martin County Community Foundation provides grants to teachers for STEM initiatives.
Community partners and activites are found in our guiding documents
PBL Lessons Created by LCSC Teachers with Community Partner Documented
More PBL Lessons Created by LCSC Teachers with Community Partner Documented
TJ McAtee, NSWC Crane Program Analyst Team Manager
Dan Christmas, NSWC Crane Lead Engineer
Pete Smith, Dairy Master Owner
Brooke Hawkins, Owner / Chiropractor Hawkins Health Center
Pam Loughmiller, Owner Loughmiller Tool & Design
Loogootee Beautification Board PBL - see second picture to the right
PBL meeting with Martin County Nursing Home resident - see fourth image on right
4.4 Extended Learning
LMS has a robotics team and a math bowl teram that meet weekly after school to practice and prepare for robotics and math competitions. Although all students are accepted, students must apply to be on the robotics team and are interviewed by staff members to enhance their knowledge and comfort level to apply for a job in the future. They compete in 2 robotics competitions a year in our area. The math bowl is comprised of any student that would like to participate on the team.
Our robotics and math bowl team are comprised of almost 50% females to 50% males. Our school demographic is comparable. in composition. Ninety-five percent of our population is caucausian. We do have one African American student on the robotics team, so the team is comprised of a higher percentage of racially diverse students than is our entire student body.
For the 2022-23 school year, plans are being made to also offer an after school robotics camp for a week after school in the spring for any student wishing to attend.
During the 2022-23 school year, a Science Olympiad team has been formed will compete in two competitions in the spring semester.
Arrangements are made so that students that lack transportation can be picked up and dropped off by the bus or sponsor if it is needed for the student to participate.
Math Bowl Image - see image to right
Robotics Image - see images to right and below
4.5 Access and Opportunity to STEM Experiences
Underrepresented STEM student groups:
Females
Economically disadvantaged
Action Plan
Designate females in the role of teaching Science, Math, App Creators to inspire female students to pursue STEM fields
7th / 8th Grade Science / PLTW Medical Detectives - Brandy Tippery
PLTW Green Architecture, Magic of Electrons / Lion Manufactuirng Jr - Megan Jones
7th / 8th Grade Math - Ashton Kahle
PLTW App Creators - Tracie McAtee
Invite female guest speakers in the STEM fields to speak to students to inspire female students to pursue STEM fields and allow male students to see that females can succeed in the STEM fields
Becca Hollaway (RTC Communications) - see top image to right
Emily Bateman Duvall (Mechanical Engineer) - see bottom image to right
To give EVERYONE (females / economically disadvantaged) equal opportunities to experience STEM initiatives, we require that ALL teachers use PBL in their classrooms with ALL of their students (integrated into teacher evaluation) and we also require ALL students to take PLTW courses at all grade levels in grades K-8. For LMS, students take the following courses:
PLTW Gateway Green Architecture - Grade 5
PLTW Gateway Magic of Electrons - Grade 6
PLTW App Creators - Grade 7
PLTW Medical Detectives - Grade 8
Other Opportunities
ALL LMS students may participate in our LCSC Robotics Club after school
ALL LMS students may participate on our LMS Math Bowl team
ALL LMS students may participate on the Science Olympiad team.