Instruction is the muscle that moves our curriculum forward and into the minds and hands of our students. Without dedicated and passionate administrators and teachers the curriculum will not move. Our muscle lies in the fact that our staff believes in the STEM approach and in its power to help our students obtain the skills needed to succeed in the future. Like the muscles of a body, our instruction provides the support and protection our students need to engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate the STEM curriculum.

Our School Board members have initiated feedback from teachers on their needs to provide a quality program. They have provided listening ears and promised support in establishing a successful STEM program. Administrative support and protection is witnessed in the non-evaluative walk through feedback forms and discussions. Teachers are provided the support to try new approaches to presentation and implementation of STEM lessons.

Our Technology Director provides teacher-vetted modern equipment/devices and programs to make STEM instruction engaging for all. Technology plays an important part of every day instruction in every classroom at MVJHS.

Instructional, as well as STEM, coaches provide assistance to teachers in the form of instruction best practices, curated resources, collaboratively planned units of study, video self-reflections, and the construction of learning challenges.

With all this instructional support modeled for teachers, it’s easy to see that they, too, provide the support and protection to students as they navigate the STEM curriculum. As teachers provide rich group interactions and instruction, they also provide students with non-evaluative debriefing opportunities where students are allowed to refine and practice their collaborative and communicative group skills.