STEM has been a trend throughout the world and educators try their best to design a series of lessons that are accordance with STEM.
Still wondering what is STEM? Why we have STEM in our classes? Who promotes STEM? Let's check it out.
WHAT IS STEM?
STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines - science, technology, engineering and mathematics - in an interdisciplinary and applied approach.
Why we have STEM in our classes? From Goverment to the local.
Eduaction is for the future and as educators we are teaching the kids with abilities to deal with the incoming world. Thus, If we want a nation where our future leaders, neighbors, and workers have the ability to understand and solve some of the complex challenges of today and tomorrow, and to meet the demands of the dynamic and evolving workforce, building students' skills, content knowledge, and fluency in STEM fields is essential.
the institudes that promote STEM Education
there are many institudes that promote STEM Education. The first one is an official website that running by goverment. The second and the third one are nonprofit organizations gather great power to change the education for the future.
1. US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
https://www.ed.gov/stem
In an ever-changing, increasingly complex world, it's more important than ever that our nation's youth are prepared to bring knowledge and skills to solve problems, make sense of information, and know how to gather and evaluate evidence to make decisions. These are the kinds of skills that students develop in science, technology, engineering and math—disciplines collectively known as STEM. We must also make sure that, no matter where children live, they have access to quality learning environments. A child's zip code should not determine their STEM fluency.
1.1 Office of Educational Techonology https://tech.ed.gov/stem/
Technology can be a powerful tool to transform STEM learning. To help school and district staff implement new, research-based approaches for using technology effectively in STEM learning, the Office of Educational Technology, in partnership with Digital Promise, conducted a systematic review of the research literature on the impact of integrating innovative digital technology in STEM and computer science curricula and classrooms. We used the resulting research synthesis, in conjunction with information about school demographics, geographic locations, and markers of success or needed improvement, to identify 10 school sites that are “spotlighted” in short videos below. Both the research synthesis and the video spotlights are available to help teachers, curriculum specialists and other school and district staff learn about effective uses of technology for deepening students’ STEM experiences.
10 spotlighted school
1. Greene Central High School in Snow Hill, NC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=GBT4f146h9U
2. Pine Grove Middle School in East Syracuse, NY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BDYGOEsSoA
3. Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School in St. Petersburg, FL,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX18iiFWtP8
4. South Side Elementary School in Kendalville, IN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Aki99TM5MMI
5. Middle School in Lincoln, NE,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvl_xTXGcs8
6. Cedars International Next Generation High School in Austin, TX,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJOGK--sNdY
7. Weaver Lake STEM Elementary School in Maple Grove, MN,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ssz7ZiHoTo
8. Walter Bracken STEAM Elementary School in Las Vegas, NV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=V3XlKqEDtR4
9. Henrietta Lacks Health & Bioscience High School in Vancouver, WA,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=4RvgEIJsRek
10. Design Tech High School in Redwood City, CA,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLyIZaUw0m8
2.TEACHFORAMERICAN https://www.teachforamerica.org/
（photo from teschforamerica FB)
Teach For America is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to "enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence." "Teach For America and the Amgen Foundation launched the STEM Initiative in 2006, announcing our commitment to empowering all students with a great STEM education. Today, Teach For America is one of the largest—and most diverse—providers of STEM teachers in the country. Approximately 3,500 of our corps members teach an elementary or secondary STEM.
TEACHFORAMERICAN FB https://www.facebook.com/teachforamerica/
STEMEDUCATIONCOALITION http://www.stemedcoalition.org/about-us/
（photo from stemeducationcoalition)
The Coalition is non-profit organization. The STEM Education Coalition’s mission is to raise awareness amongst policymakers at every level about the critical role that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education plays in enabling the U.S. to remain the economic and technological leader of the global marketplace of the 21st century. The Coalition believes that our nation must improve the way our students learn STEM and that the business, education, and STEM communities must work together to achieve this goal.
The STEM Education Coalition represents the broadest and most unified voice in advocating for policies to improve STEM education at all levels. As an alliance of more than 600 business, professional, and education organizations, our Coalition works aggressively to raise awareness in Congress, the Administration, and other organizations about the critical role that STEM education plays in enabling the U.S. to remain the economic and technological leader of the global marketplace of the 21st century.
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