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Due to the unique situation of Foothills Community School (located within 11 rooms on the first floor of a larger middle school, West McDowell Middle School), our staff and students have learned to be extremely flexible while maintaining our high standards. Every day, each classroom is turned into a collaborative space with flexible work areas so scholars can work cooperatively on the quarterly STEM project. When the classrooms just are not big enough, students do not hesitate to expand themselves into the hallways, closets, corners or outside to continue collaboration. In order to make the most of these collaborations, students have daily goal setting meetings and facilitator focused opportunities. We have found that many middle school students must be explicitly taught and modeled, for pacing and time on task, to ensure they are engaged in meaningful, content focused work for our projects. We do have one STEM lab in which our Student Success Coach supports our scholar’s project building, digital printing, green screen video creation, and robotics work. Our Student Success Coach works with students who are stuck or are looking for another another set of eyes. This STEM lab also contains many different supplies students may need while working on their project. These materials range from pencils and papers to 3-D Printers and robotics materials. This classroom has also been used on many occasions for our partnership with the North Carolina School of Science and Math in Raleigh.Due to our space limitations, our teachers are extremely flexible with their collaborative work, meeting with other teachers or experts online via google hangouts, webinars, flipgrides, or other teleconferencing technology. The spaces that we use immediately become collaborative as we begin engaging and working together, whether that be in a coffee shop, a colleague’s home or an empty classroom. Student work is documented thoroughly through the use of our website www.fcs.mcdowell.k12.nc.us or social media Twitter: @STEMFCS Facebook: @FCSSTEM Students run our @FCSTALKS on instagram and student work is publicly displayed in various locations, virtually the information plays on displays within the FCS hallway and is shared once a semester on local radio and local cable stations.
Evidence: Physical Space for Projects
Physical Space for collaboration and project work:https://photos.app.goo.gl/YMmBMveXUzyc16uV6https://photos.app.goo.gl/33MohYUxwuYsgNPS7https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OSWeHo6uPTQrZ21Z-fcRJmKyQK80GvGE?usp=sharinghttps://twitter.com/STEMFCS/status/1205120643345203200https://twitter.com/STEMFCS/status/1202677153592008704https://twitter.com/YerglerF/status/1197221610979254272
www.fcs.mcdowell.k12.nc.us or social media Twitter: @STEMFCS Facebook: @FCSSTEMInstagram: @STEMFCSInstagram: Student Run Account: @FCSTALKS
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