Iowa
Contacts
Jeanette Thomas
Equity/Perkins Consultant
Iowa Department of Education
Grimes Building
Des Moines, IA 50319
Phone: 515-281-3636
Fax: 515-281-6544
Email: jeanette.thomas@iowa.gov
Activities
Diversity in STEM conference
4/22/2011 8:30AM - 4:30PM
FFA Enrichment Center, Des Moines, IA, Area Community College--Ankeny Campus
The Iowa Department of Education in partnership with the Community Colleges of Iowa
and Iowa Regent Universities will host the first Diversity in STEM conference addressing
barriers to success in STEM career pathways for underrepresented students.
The goal of the conference is to create a forum for an exchange of ideas, promising
practices, and proven strategies to address the low representation of diverse students
in STEM fields in Iowa’s secondary and postsecondary programs.
There is no registration fee for the conference. Mileage and lodging reimbursement
is available for community college participants.
(Registration)
(Presentation)
Counselors are Key: Expanding Options for Nontraditional Students
Eastern Iowa Community College
March 25, 2011
Eastern Iowa Community College offered two trainings during SY 2010-11 to administration,
faculty, and staff from the community college and regional high schools (September
29, 2010, and March 25, 2011). The March 25 training was focused on counselors and
support service staff, and the content included data analysis and research-based
strategies for counselors and support services staff to recruit and support female
students in STEM programs.
(Agenda)
(Presentation)
(Strategies)
Moms Night Out for STEM
Iowa STEM Equity Pipeliners-- If you would like to be a local host for 'Moms Night
Out for STEM" let us know right away. It is the evening of October 18; 90 minutes
of conversation, activity, and resources to help moms (and dads) plan solid STEM
futures for their children. A Satellite Event of the USA Science and Engineering
Festival, this is basically "an event in a box" supported by mini-grants from John
Deere. Twenty communities signed on. Join us?
(More Information
for Iowa)
Five Step Training
Eastern Iowa Community College
September 29, 2010
Eastern Iowa Community College brought together deans and other administration leaders,
support services staff, and faculty from their campuses and regional high schools
to participate in the 5-step program improvement process.
(Agenda)
5-Step Training
Iowa Lakes Community College
July 6, 2010
100% of Iowa community colleges are required to participate in the 5-step training
as a condition for receiving a discretionary grant funded out of federal Carl V.
Perkins. Three of the sixteen community colleges attended this workshop.
(Agenda)
(Presentation)
5-Step Training
Indian Hills Community College
May 12 and June 3, 2009
The Iowa State Leadership Team identified three community colleges positioned-well
to pilot the 5-step training process. This is the one of three pilot site trainings.
(Overview)
(Agenda)
(Overview 2009 Spring CC Pilot Presentation)
(5 Step Process Step 1 2009 Spring CC Pilot Presentation)
(5 Step Process Step 2 2009 Spring CC Pilot Presentation)
(IHCC
2009 06 03 Meeting Presentation)
5-Step Training
Hawkeye Community College
May 21 and June 25, 2009
The Iowa State Leadership Team identified three community colleges positioned-well
to pilot the 5-step training process. This is the one of three pilot site trainings.
(Overview)
(Agenda)
(Overview 2009 Spring CC Pilot Presentation) (5 Step Process Step 1 2009 Spring CC Pilot Presentation)
(5 Step Process Step 2 2009 Spring CC Pilot Presentation)
(HCC 2009
06 25 Meeting Presentation)
5-Step Training
Iowa Western Community College
May 22 and August 21, 2009
The Iowa State Leadership Team identified three community colleges positioned-well
to pilot the 5-step training process. This is the one of three pilot site trainings.
(Overview)
(Agenda)
(IWCC
2009 08 21 Overview Presentation)
(5 Step Process Step 1 2009 Spring CC Pilot Presentation)
(5 Step Process Step 2 2009 Spring CC Pilot Presentation)
(Overview 2009 Spring CC Pilot Presentation)
IA State Team Meeting
December 18, 2009
Cedar Rapids, IA
5-step training with Project Lead the Way faculty in the eastern central region
of Iowa.
(Agenda)
5-step training
December 18, 2009
Kirkwood Community College
The annual meeting of the Iowa state team reviewed progress on the Implementation
Plan and identified objectives for school year 2009-2010.
(Agenda)
[Iowa] State joins equity in sciences project
The living-learning community is among more than 100 such initiatives across Iowa
that will now be coordinated at the state level through a Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics Equity Pipeline project. (more)
IA State Team Meeting
November 25, 2008
Ola Miller Babcock State Building, Des Moines, IA
- State Team Meeting Agenda (Doc)
- STEM Equity Pipeline Overview
Presented by Mimi Lufkin, National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity
(PowerPoint)
- National and IA Data
Presented by Courtney Reed Jenkins, STEM Equity Pipeline Project
(PowerPoint)
Iowa Leadership Team Meeting
November 3, 2008
Stakeholders met to identify core values for Iowa's participation in the STEM Equity
Pipeline Project, to identify additional members of the State Team, and to connect
to existing state projects and organizations.
(Agenda)
(Presentation)
Resources