Quotes from Oregon Schools
12/18/08 From Rose Gregory at Pioneer Middle School in Lebanon, OR "I am having the time of my teaching life teaching GTT. My students love it. We are designing Peg Toys right now and all is going well. It's not often I get so many smiles when I tell them what I will be teaching for the day, but if I say we are going to do GTT today the smiles are there! I have split my science time and I am teaching all of our 6th graders GTT. I plan to offer our 8th graders an after school class in the spring to give them an idea of what classes our high school offers.I want to thank you for all you have done for our school.Thanks, Rose Gregory"
Jonathon Bullock, Principal, Redmond High School
The ETIC grant has allowed us to expand our Project Lead the Way program in a variety of ways. We now have more students, a wider diversity of students, and more program capacity than ever before. Our students are engaged in our pre-engineering program with highly-trained teachers and state-of-the-art technology, allowing us to make PLTW a key component of our career academy program.
Steve Day, Principal, Health & Science High School
All is well regarding PLTW. We have a brand-new-to-teaching teacher, Tom Baker, working in what has become our 10th graders' favorite class by far! I've been very impressed with the curriculum that Tom has been given as well as the structure of the work (engineering design was not my background at all).
Our passing rate at the end of first trimester is 90% for the IED course. To provide context: this is a course that all of our 10th graders take as a part of their core curriculum here at HS2. With regard to underrepresented groups in engineering, our 10th grade is approx: 48% living in poverty, 35% Latino, 60% female, 20% English-language learners. As such, we celebrate the success of our teacher and our students!!!
Principal Touts Benefits Of Project Lead The Way.
In an article for the Sandy (OR) Post (4/15), Brian Heinze, principal of Sandy High School, describes "the formation of Project Lead The Way" at the school, in partnership with Oregon Institute of Technology and Project Lead The Way, which he says will "prepare an increasing and more diverse science, technology, engineering and mathematics pipeline." The project will be presented by "two highly qualified teachers," with assistance from a retired civil engineer. Heinze describes PLTW's mission, as well as the benefits to the students. Heinze notes data indicating that students report a greater level of confidence and preparation in "engineering, technology and computer science" fields, as well as a stronger desire to pursue such fields in their continued education. The article also describes the different courses available under the program.