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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The UC Davis C-STEM Event on Saturday, February 25th is
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">NOW FLEX CREDIT APPROVED. You will receive 8 HOURS of Flex Credit for attending.</span></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Josh Adams, MBA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">STEM AA's: please forward to your departments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Josh and Robert: please forward to your respective departments (now that flex credit has been approved). Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The UC Davis C-STEM Event on Saturday, February 25th is
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">NOW FLEX CREDIT APPROVED. You will receive 8 HOURS of Flex Credit for attending.</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"></span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Come learn about incorporating coding and robotics to enhance your curriculum, even if you don't have a computer
programming background. This event is open to both K-12 educators and community college instructors, with the goal of building partnerships between both groups.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The workshop is Saturday, February 25, from 8:30 PM - 4:30 PM and is $200 for K-12 educators;
<b><u>however, for SRJC faculty it is FREE!</u></b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please see attached flyer and the text below for more information. <b>You DO NOT need to register online. Instead, please send me an email indicating you wish to attend by Tuesday, February 21st.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Looking forward to seeing you there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">-Victor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The <a href="http://c-stem.ucdavis.edu/" target="_blank">UC Davis C-STEM Center</a> will be offering a 1-Day Introductory Workshop for K-12 educators and Community College instructors at Santa Rosa
Junior College on <b>Saturday, February 25, 2017</b>. For more details about this professional development opportunity, see the flyer (attached) or see their <a href="http://c-stem.ucdavis.edu/teachers-administrators/professional-development/professional-development-events/">PD
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">C-STEM has developed and provides innovative hands-on integrated programming, robotics and math curricula along with a set of easy to use technology tools for students and offers comprehensive professional
development for K-14 educators, many of whom have no experience with programming and/or robotics. Our curriculum, programming and robotics resources have been successfully used by educators in K-12 programs throughout California to improve student learning,
particularly in mathematics.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">C-STEM joins a distinguished group of programs with UC A-G Program Status. High schools can easily add the “A-G approved” rigorous C-STEM curriculum integrated with computing and robotics to their
own school’s A-G course lists to satisfy the UC/CSU admission requirements. Their curriculum is also CCSS-Mathematics and CTE Standards compliant.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">The C-STEM curriculum is also one of a handful recognized computing programs recommend by a committee for <a href="https://code.org/educate/curriculum/3rd-party" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">Beyond
Hour of Code.</span></a> Five of their activities are featured on <a href="https://code.org/learn" target="_blank">Code.org</a>'s site and are being utilized for this week's Hour of Code. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Teachers using their integrated programming, robotics and mathematics curriculum have had encouraging results in raising student's academic achievement. At their <a href="http://c-stem.ucdavis.edu/teachers-administrators/c-stem-conference/2016-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#196AD4">recent
C-STEM Conference</span></a>, a California high school math teacher reported in her plenary speech that using C-STEM Algebra 1 curriculum her 9th grade class of at-risk students had 100% pass rate. The average score on the final exam for her class with at-risk
students was 84% versus the district-wide average of 68% based on the same examination. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">M</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222">iddle school students in Cincinnati taking part in a Straight-A project, funded by Ohio Department of Education, had higher
math achievement scores after just one semester of using the UC Davis C-STEM Curriculum. Leslie Silbernagel, curriculum supervisor for the Northwest Local School District, and Zach Phelps, District Data Coach, shared their team’s success story through a recent </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://static.theflypod.com/episodes/northwest-local-schools/"><span style="text-decoration:none">podcast</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222"> (at
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">To learn more about the program, please see their
<a href="http://c-stem.ucdavis.edu/?knews=readEmail&id=128&e=1749&k=55">January 2017 newsletter</a> and visit their
<a href="http://c-stem.ucdavis.edu/">website</a>.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Victor K. Tam, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dean II of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Santa Rosa Junior College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">1501 Mendocino Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">1494 Bussman Hall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Santa Rosa, CA 95401<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">707-527-4246<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:vtam@santarosa.edu">vtam@santarosa.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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