What s the Problem?
Abstract
Sigsbee Charter School (SCS), located on Naval Air Station Key West (NASKW), is a K-8 school with a mission specifically focused on creating innovative curriculum to meet the unique needs of the military child. The school embraces 50% military-dependent students from all five branches of the Armed Forces and has established learning partnerships with local military installations and environmental agencies. What’s The Problem?, aims to improve self-efficacy and participation in STEM for students in grades 3-8, while supporting their social-emotional needs through a STEM-based Problem-Based Learning (PBL) curriculum. Strategies address students’ diminished participation in STEM courses, issues with the transferability of curriculum due to a highly transient workforce, and a decline in military-connected students’ mental wellness since the Covid-19 Pandemic. The project will implement STEM-based PBL tasks that deepen community and military partnerships to increase student self-efficacy in STEM. The curriculum will be published in Learning Guides to promote sustainability. Restorative Practices will be adopted to improve mental wellness for military-connected students. What’s The Problem? will provide a resource model for schools serving military-connected students who are interested in adopting a sustainable PBL curriculum that improves student self-efficacy and participation in STEM learning.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Oct 06, 2022
- Source ID
- HE12542211002
Entities
People
- Eli Jannes
Organizations
- Department of Defense Education Activity
- United States Department of Defense