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Edgewood Middle School strives to create a culture founded on two essential fundamentals, service and work-based skills. EMS intentionally provides students with opportunities to serve their community with empathy and compassion, as well as, develop critical working skills for 21st century employment. Edgewood principal, JoElla Hauselman, actively pursues staff members that share these same core values to ensure all members, staff and students, are seeking these important social skills. EMS offers a myriad of opportunities for students and staff to serve their community such as, Reading for Riley, Local canned food drives, and Boomerang Backpacks, just to name a few. The 21st century will provide unique obstacles and opportunities for our current and future students. With programs such as Junior Achievement, College and Careers, and Orthoworx's Manufacturing Experience EMS provides an introduction to many different pathways.
1.1 Decision-Making
1.1 Decision-Making
The surveys show the positive attitudes towards STEM from EMS staff. The STEM Leadership Team asked staff questions about their personal beliefs and understandings of teaching STEM curriculum. From these results, the Leadership Team is able to focus staff development on areas of concern to better serve students. These feedback forms provide staff with ownership of decisions based around STEM curriculum within all content areas. Thus, ensuring continual evaluations and development of stronger STEM curriculum.
1.2 Learning Modalities
1.2 Learning Modalities
Edgewood uses various inquiries of all stakeholders to assess the best avenues to foster high quality student engagement and growth. From these assessments multiple demographics are represented and involved in all areas of current and future STEM decisions. Community partners are continually being added through these initiatives allowing for more diverse real world content and assessment.
Strategic Plan Pillars Presentation.pdfWCS Strategic Pillars
WCS Strategic Pillars
The Community-Driven Strategic Pillars outlines how Warsaw Community Schools utilizes students, staff, and community input to create 4 key pillars for students learning in and out of the classroom.
Edgewood 90 Day Plan 2021.pdfEdgewood 90 Day Plan
Edgewood 90 Day Plan
The 90 Day Plan capitalizes on stakeholder input to continuously evaluate and update current practices and curriculum within Edgewood.
1.3 Common Work Time
1.3 Common Work Time
Edgewood MIddle School has a built-in common planning time every Monday morning from 7:30-8:20. The schedule allows for different teams to meet, including the STEM core team. The team is able to meet with individual departments to plan and collaborate on STEM lessons. Each different subject area has a common preparation time. This allows teachers to better plan activities within the discipline.
Staff Meeting Agenda August 2021.pdfStaff Meeting Agenda
Staff Meeting Agenda
The structure of our staff meetings is intended to utilize staff to provide training to other staff. By following this approach, Edgewood staff have the opportunity to work collaboratively on important skills and topics as they relate to STEM curriculum.
Pillar Leadership Agenda July 2021.pdfPillar Leadership Agenda
Pillar Leadership Agenda
The STEM leadership pillar is one part of the WCS district initiatives. The leadership pillar meets to direct curriculum and training for school wide implementation. Following guidance from student and staff feedback, this group intentionally places STEM curriculum within current academic practices.
1.4 Sustainability Plan
1.4 Sustainability Plan
This video from WCS District representatives highlights the strategic planning that has taken place over the past fifteen years within Warsaw Community Schools. Featured in this video are Dr. David Hoffert (Superintendent WCS) speaking on the matter of how WCS continues to plan and prepare for current and future STEM needs.
IMG_0124.MOVSTEM Strategic Planning - SmallBox.pdfSTEM Strategic Plan
Edgewood, as part of Warsaw Community Schools, executed an agreement with SmallBox Consulting to identify and implement a plan for STEM curriculum sustainability. This group identified stakeholders to understand all of the needs to further support new and ongoing STEM initiatives.
EMS TBR.pdfEMS TBR
The textbook and materials rental agreements for each class shows how Edgewood plans to support STEM within the curriculum.
2021-Tech-Plan-Data-for-External-Release.xlsx2021-Tech-Plan-Data
The IDOE summary provides information of how Warsaw Community Schools plans to use new and existing technology to further the STEM goals.
1.5 Measurement of Students' Attitudes/Interests
1.5 Measurement of Students' Attitudes/Interests
EMS students show positive attitudes towards science and math. We asked students targeted questions in an online survey to gauge their interests and passion regarding STEM disciplines and habits. Student surveys and perceptions are regularly assessed through Google forms . These assessments are being used to develop future STEM content across multiple disciplines.
Edgewood ME 2019.xlsxEdgewood ME Program
Edgewood ME Program
Manufacturing Exploration (ME) week is all about showing EMS what manufacturing and opportunities exist in our community. The ME week contains many lesson plans about manufacturing careers and testing of products. The students also get to see manufacturing in action by touring several local companies and our local Warsaw Area Career Center (WACC). This is a pre-assessment from ME week that all students took.
Local Student Attitudes of Science Survey
Local Student Attitudes of Science Survey
Students were given the opportunity to express their own values and experiences with STEM using our own short survey.
TOSRA
TOSRA
Test of Science-Related Attitudes
All EMS students took the TOSRA survey to see their current attitudes toward science and math. The results are positive attitudes.
Student Feedback Form
Student Feedback Form
This survey questions shows that middle school students are likely to continue in a STEM field after middle school.
This shows that there is a high school/career center pathway for all middle school students to continue their interests from middle school. The data shows that many students are taking the opportunity to continue their interest. The list displays all of the career center engineering and biomedical classes offered and enrollment numbers.
1.7 STEM Instructional Feedback
1.7 STEM Instructional Feedback
These tools show that STEM is being observed on a regular basis within classrooms throughout EMS. Principals and peers are actively participating in staff development in STEM methods.
Completed Informal Walk Through Feedback
Filled out walkthrough.pdfCompleted informal walk through feedback highlighting STEM practices during instruction.
1.9 STEM Communications
1.9 STEM Communications
Please see the main page for the current Facebook & Twitter feeds.
Edgewood Facebook Page
Edgewood Twitter
1.10 Equity
1.10 Equity
Warsaw Area Career Center offers a variety of STEM classes in which many students are enrolled. These classes are available to all students. Edgewood Middle School students are made aware of these opportunities and encouraged to pursue coursework in STEM related fields.
PLTW Numbers - Sheet1.pdfThe enrollment numbers and our promotion for diversity representation for PLTW have earned EMS the Distinguished Middle School Award.
These are the enrollment numbers and diversity representation description submitted to PLTW.
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