Discursively Entering Teachers Into a New STEAM School Design Process

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 32
  In Roundtable Session: New Methods for Rethinking Research, Design, and Activism

Abstract

Possibilities for educational innovation in designing a new school seem infinite A key consideration is how to support and sustain that enthusiasm and the innovative design that results from it. What does it look and sound like to discursively shape processes and practices that will serve to help sustain the innovations designed for the new school as it opens? Using an Interactional Ethnographic perspective, this paper will address these questions through a mini-case study of the orientation and initiation into the design process of a newly hired foundational faculty for a new STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) school, slated to open in a K-8 public school district a year and a half after these teachers were brought on board.

Authors

• Beth V. Yeager, Rio School District - Independent Consultant

• Ralph Adon Cordova, University of Missouri - St. Louis

• John D. Puglisi, Rio School District

• Faviana Hirsch-Dubin