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It’s time for another iteration of STEAM. We start the year off with a fresh unit for second graders — inquiring into materials science and the relationship between properties and purposes in material choice. I feel the STEAM program is developing to the point where it has become about incremental changes, not disruption. It’s still about innovation, but as W Patrick McCray writes,

“Most of the time, innovators don’t move fast and break things.” (link to article)

So for this year, some goals for incremental change:

• increased skills instruction – both in approaches to learning, and STEAM skills
• higher quality documentation of the learning process
• refinement of learning outcomes – more depth, less breadth
• increased authentic student agency
• iTime for co-curricular STEAM time