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"The Empowerment Pathway Nurtures Innovators and Critical Thinkers Into Transformational Leaders of the 21st Century"

We believe having a successful STEM program will instill in our students a passion for inquiry and cultivate valuable skills that will materialize our vision.  Our staff and parents are dedicated to engaging students in hands-on activities that embody STEM practices. These practices include the 4Cs: critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication; all skills needed to be successful in the 21st Century.

This becomes reality by students engaging in:

  • Learning across disciplines integrating core subjects
  • Genius Hour
  • Coding 
  • Robotics
  • Engineering
  • FOSSWeb Science
  • Depth and Complexity 
  • Makerspace

The Empowerment Pathway embodies leadership skills through the world of STEM.  Leadership and core curriculum subjects (reading, writing, math, social studies, science and health) are integrated into our STEM program. We believe that learners learn best through doing, therefore our program is project based. We focus heavily on research projects that are followed up with science investigations  and engineering designs. Overall, the empowerment pathway provides our children an opportunity to critically think while working independently and collaboratively on skills they need for today’s workforce.  With this tech success in early childhood, as adults, they will be able to problem solve logically in any field they choose. When a student culminates from our STEM program, he or she should  have a strong proficiency of digital skills and citizenship. More specifically, they will know how to use technology in a safe and ethical way.  Students will know how to use email and popular applications like google suite, keynote, pages, and schoology. They will have an intermediate understanding of coding and robotics.  Using their knowledge of technology, they can explore new unfamiliar technologies with confidence. While online, students can evaluate the credibility of sources they are using for their projects.  Using digital resources, they are able to infer, draw conclusions, make connections, and cite evidence to support their understanding of areas studied. Students are able to explore real world problems, and test their developed ideas to discover useful solutions.  In addition to this, they should be innovators and be able to create original ideas. They should be strong collaborators and assume various roles and responsibilities on a team. In closing, they culminate ready for today’s world.

For more information on our curriculum and program, please contact Christina Smith-Corleone, STEM Coordinator, at 310.645.1973.