Mark Percy, Vice President, Strategic Relations for KNET For the past decade Mark has served as a philanthropic advisor to individuals and families making significant investments to positively impact education, health care, and other areas of common purpose. Mark is the Vice President, Strategic Relations for KNET, a consortium enterprise that serves as the [...]
The Health Career Pathways Project, funded through the California Endowment, is a project intended to build out articulated healthcare career pathways between education (K12, Community Colleges, Universities, etc.) and industry. OC STEM, with the help of two facilitators Mona Shah and Maya Dunne, recently met with members of the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC) [...]
District teams gathered for another Institute session on Wednesday, February 8th, focusing on sustainable partnerships within their ecosystem team as well as outside of it with local businesses and more. OC STEM invited a panel of speakers to share their promising practices in cultivating sustainable partnerships. Facilitated by Cinda Muckenthaler from the Children and Families [...]
Kelly Pijl, Communications and Policy Director Kelly Pijl oversees strategic communications and legislative outreach for the Children and Families Commission. She also directs the Commission’s Early Learning goal area that includes school readiness, early literacy, and math programs. Kelly began working for the Commission at its inception in 2000. She was formerly the strategic [...]
Mark Percy, Vice President, Strategic Relations for KNET For the past decade Mark has served as a philanthropic advisor to individuals and families making significant investments to positively impact education, health care, and other areas of common purpose. Mark is the Vice President, Strategic Relations for KNET, a consortium enterprise that serves as the [...]
Creating a Culture of Inquiry Around STEM Education The first session of the new 2017 year took place on Thursday, January 12 at the Orange County Department of Education, where teams reunited around the topic of Creating & Sustaining a Culture of Inquiry Around STEM Education Across [...]
Gerald Solomon, Executive Director of the Samueli Foundation Mr. Solomon has served as the Executive Director of the Samueli Foundation since 2008, overseeing their philanthropic activities, focused on STEM Education, Youth, Integrative Health and Jewish Leadership. He led the design and development of the OC STEM Initiative, the nation’s first [...]
On December 6 - 7, 2016 Cohort 1 of the Ecosystem Learning Institute returned for a special 2-day professional development training led by the Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM (TIES). Titled "Innovation by Design", this session focused on the Design Process that TIES uses to help teams work collaboratively and share an understanding of [...]
The most recent OC STEM Ecosystem Institute Session for Cohort 2 took place on November 17th, and featured special guest speaker Dr. Milton Chen, Ph.D. Dr. Chen is senior fellow and executive director, emeritus at The George Lucas Educational Foundation, a non-profit operating foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area producing the award-winning Edutopia.org website [...]
Through a partnership between the Orange County Department of Education and OC STEM, the Lead STEM Practitioner (LSP) Network has been developed to engage a strong cadre of teacher/leaders to become the conduits of information for their respective districts regarding new, innovative work happening in STEM education globally, nationally and locally. This group of [...]
