FOCUS ON SECME
Elementary
Module Type: Lecture
Focus: Current Educator's Issues, STEM
Summary: Focus on SECME is designed to introduce the newly SECMEtized to the structure and value of SECME. This session serves as the foundation used to integrate SECME program components into your school or district’s STEM initiatives. In this session we will answer three questions:
- Where does SECME fit- examples of SECME programs in after-school, Title I school improvement plans, and integrated into the school day
- How do successful programs function - success stories suited to guide you through brainstorming ideas for organizing your program.
- How do I leverage the SECME network and partnerships to enhance this initiative - how to connect the pieces and make them work for you.
This session has been personalized for school and district leadership.
Room: 204
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Biography: Judy first became SECMEtized in 2007 at the 31st SSI at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Since 2006 she has started five elementary SECME Clubs for Seminole County Public Schools, and in 2017, she initiated her sixth SECME Club with a SECME homeroom at Rock Lake Middle School. After starting her 2nd SECME Club in 2008, she joined the SSI team of Master Teachers in 2009, and was named her district's SECME Teacher of the Year in 2009 and 2010. In 2011 Judy wrote a grant for the ESE students at her school to start a garden that was selected as the ?Greatest Grant of the Year? in her district. Also in 2011, she started her 3rd SECME Club and in 2013, her 4th SECME Club. In 2009, 2010, and 2014, her students took 1st Place in the National SECME/ISTF competitions. Also in 2014, her student took 1st Place in the Nation for Web Quest/Essay. In 2015, her SECME Club was designated the 'Overall' winner at the SECME Regional Competition, Elem. Division, at UCF. She started her fifth SECME Club in 2015. Judy has degrees in Theatre and English, and in 2010, resumed acting in Celery Soup community productions based on the stories of Sanford and Seminole County. Since then she has appeared in more than 75 performances and also served as a Stage Manager and Director for numerous productions. Judy has taught elementary, middle, high school, college, and vocational students. She lives with her husband in Sanford, FL, and has 2 daughters, a son-in-law, and two granddaughters.
Judy Wall-Townsend
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Biography:
Kim is beginning twenty years with the Mobile County Public School System. She has taught grades kindergarten through Second Grade. She was introduced to SECME in 2003 when she served as the K-2 Coordinator for her school. In 2009 she became the school's SECME Coordinator for K-5. O'Rourke Elementary has two after school SECME programs with almost 100 students from grades 3-5. One program consists of various engineering design challenges. The other program is a VEX IQ robotics team of 30 fourth and fifth grade students. She has been an AMSTI teacher for sixteen years. She is the school's Archery Coach.
Kim earned her Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education from the University of South Alabama. She was SECMEtized at her first Summer Institute in 2009 at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. SECME has inspired her so much, that she has returned to South Alabama to earn her Master's Degree. Her SECME programs and classroom encourages students to never give up, and to be a solution to the world's problems. She hopes to inspire children to truly make a difference. She has done this in the life of her 21 year-old son who earned the rank of Eagle Scout before joining the Alabama Army National Guard at 17. She has been happily married for twelve years and now loves spending every possible minute with her beautiful granddaughter, Destiny.
