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Perhaps amongst a variety of intersections you may find your true purpose.

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• 2016 - The STEAM department is planning to establish a professional learning community to foster a technology learning community, stay tuned!!

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Thomas C. Murray took WPSD staff back to a time before the internet to show how video content used to be shared.

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Blockbuster Offers Glimpse Of Movie Renting Past

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The Blockbuster Video Living Museum offers tourists a glimpse of how Americans rented movies before the advent of services like Netflix and iTunes. More coverage at: http://onion.com

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Without a doubt one of the best district PD sessions I have attended to date.  Check out his website:  http://thomascmurray.com

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• 2014 - STEAM department created, co-chairs hired, committee formed to explore change and establish an instructional improvement path
•  2015 - WPHS PULSE Team @ IU13 - A cohort of six HS attended summer workshop and developed cross-curricular project where students designed and constructed a solar panel.
•  2016 - District realignment has moved some staff and resulted in a focus on curriculum and smoother educational transitions between grade levels and buildings. STEAM is evaluating and rewriting curriculum that is currently in place to improve instruction, remove duplication, and conceive areas of new growth.

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•  How do we support students while teaching them to fail forward?
•  How do we optimize student learning using the worst technology?
•  What can we do to help achieve more connectivity in the community?
•  Is it possible to fuse the best of brick and mortar and virtual schools to create more customized learning plans and opportunities?  How?
•  How well are more highly-connected students served by less-connected educators?  How can any gaps that may exist be closed?

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Professional Philosophy - A Trajectory of STEAM Education:

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Professional Philosophy - A Trajectory of STEAM Education:

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STEAM, the fusion of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics is an inderdisciplinary, cross-curricular approach to preparing students for a career and world that does not yet exist. Focus is primarily on big ideas, design, problem-solving, critical-thinking, research, and data.

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• Epsilon Pi Tau
• Technology Education and Engineering Association of PA (TEEAP)
• International Technology Education and Engineering Association (ITEEA)
• Technology Student Association (TSA)

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•  Middle school technology education teacher, 14 years
• High school technology education teacher, 3.5 years

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• BSEd - Industrial Arts/Technology Education, Millersville Unversity, 1991
• MEd - Technology Education, Millersville University, 1994 (w/ Thesis option)
• EdD - Immaculata University, degreee started 2015

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STEM educator, technology education teacher, educational futurist. STEAM department co-chair @ WPSD, Elliottsburg, PA.