T-STEM Centers

T-STEM Centers

Educate Texas, in partnership with the Texas Education Agency, supports seven Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (T-STEM) Centers statewide tasked with supporting T-STEM Academies and all Texas schools. The Centers design innovative science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) curricula, deliver professional development, and create strategic partnerships among businesses, higher education entities, and school districts.

Six Goals of T-STEM Centers

  • Align high school, postsecondary education and economic development activities in STEM areas with the broader high school curriculum.
  • Lead the transformation of teaching methods, teacher preparation, and instruction in STEM areas.
  • Demonstrate how the implementation of T-STEM teaching and learning increases the number of Texas high school students from diverse backgrounds graduating prepared to succeed in postsecondary study and careers in STEM-related fields.
  • Train administrators, principals, and teachers in effective leadership strategies for supporting T-STEM instruction.
  • Disseminate promising practices and research-based strategies for integrated STEM teaching and learning.
  • Improve student achievement outcomes in mathematics and science and increase the number of students who pursue postsecondary studies and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

T-STEM Centers Around the State

T-STEM Center

Programs Offered
Aggie STEM Center

Texas A&M University, College Station

The Aggie STEM Center is a partnership of Texas A&M University’s College of Education and Human Development, and the Dwight Look College of Engineering.

Areas of Specialty:

  • STEM research - published in journals and PBL materials
  • School observation and evaluation reports
  • Online project based learning modules
  • University graduate-level STEM project based learning class both on campus and online
Southeast Regional Stem Center

University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

The Southeast Regional T-STEM Center, based at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, is a partnership that includes rice University, NASA, community colleges, businesses, regional service centers, Texas Regional Collaboratives and museums.

Areas of Specialty:

  • Biology, biotechnology, biomedical sciences, bio-defense, nanotechnology
  • Career Connections – Online Profession Sessions series on STEM careers
  • Student STEM pipeline programs and internships
  • Virtual laboratory learning experiences and environments
  • Robotics, Engineering Design-including biomedical engineering
Ingenuity Center

University of Texas at Tyler

The Ingenuity Center is based at the University of Texas at Tyler. The Center links regional resources to improve the STEM preparation of teachers through research, professional development, curriculum development, and technical assistance.

Areas of Specialty:

  • Mobile STEM trailer
  • Texas Project Lead the Way, STEM 101 and EbD
  • Intensive learning communities in science and math
  • Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (analysis of intended, enacted, and assessed curriculum)
  • Technology: innovative integration in the curriculum and probe ware
  • Specialized gender equity offerings (equity collaborations and research)
Transformation 2013 Center

Region XIII ESC, Austin / Region 20 ESC, San Antonio

The Transformation 2013 T-STEM Center is a partnership between two education service centers, Region XIII (Austin) and Region 20 (San Antonio).

Areas of Specialty:

  • Immersion model professional development for STEM educators
  • Texas training hub for National Center for Technological Literacy’s (NCTL) Engineering is Elementary, Building Math, Engineering the Future, and Opening the Gateway to Technology and Engineering Projects
  • Wrap-around services for K-12 TEKS, STAAR, and content areas
  • Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board College and Career Readiness Standards “Train the Trainer”
STEM Center of South Texas

Region 1 ESC, Edinburg

The STEM Center of South Texas is based at Region 1 Educational Service Center and partners with the University of Texas at Brownsville. The Center plays a key role in the regional network of businesses, community organizations, and institutions of higher education in the Rio Grande Valley and Corpus Christi area.

Areas of Specialty:

  • Instructional strategies for English language learners and exceptional children through STEM focused curriculum
  • Development of standards/STEM focused interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary curriculum
  • Rigor in assessment and instruction - STAAR ONE
  • Project based learning curriculum development
  • Robotics and gaming design development
  • Building capacity through Instructional Coaching
Center for STEM Education and Research

University of Texas at Dallas

The Center for STEM Education and research is located within the University of Texas at Dallas Department of Science Education in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

Areas of Specialty:

  • Interdisciplinary connections between arts and sciences in content development
  • Research and evaluation on STEM teaching and learning
  • Culture of STEM communities
  • Online STEM course development
Texas Tech T-STEM Center

Texas Tech University, Lubbock

The Texas Tech University T-STEM Center is hosted in the Whitacre College of Engineering at Texas Tech University.

Areas of Specialty:

  • FRAME: engineering design process
  • Rocketry: physics, chemistry and mathematics
  • Robotics: application of math, team work, communication, and presentation skills
  • Multidisciplinary Mathematics, Physical Science, and Engineering Teacher Certification program

 

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