Sanilac County Science and Math Center Brown City Carsonville-Port Sanilac Croswell-Lexington Deckerville Marlette Peck Sandusky. Serving 7265 Students 500+ Teachers in these local districts...

Our Mission  “The mission of the Sanilac County Science and Mathematics Center is to provide leadership, programs, and services to improve interest, involvement, and achievement in mathematics, science,  engineering and technology.”

Our Demographics  DEMOGRAPHICS  The SCSMC is located in a 1,000 square mile area in the Thumb of Michigan. Sanilac County is geographically the largest county in the lower peninsula.  The SCSMC is a member of the Michigan Mathematics and Science Centers Network.

Our Services Leadership Student Services Professional Development Curriculum Support Resource Clearinghouse Community Involvement

L EADERSHIP  “Great schools are built by people, people who care and who act… The secret ingredient is human, not electronic.”  America 2000

Leadership Edited and distributed ABC in Science News Lead the Thumb Region with the K-7 transition into the use of the new Battle Creek Area Math Science Center teaching kits. Provided leadership in the rollout of new state standards in both mathematics and science Lead the Sanilac area with implementation of new technology (Data Director & Curriculum Crafter) Provides leadership for the staff of the Summer Science Camps Lead and directed the professional development of all STEM teachers

Student Services  “The yardstick is whether students…can understand as well as memorize, apply as well as state, imagine as well as copy, solve problems rather than shrug them off, and make themselves felt in a society that seems to be in trouble for lack of these capacities.”  Harriet Tyson Science Education Guidebook

Student Service ABC in Science K-7 Inquiry-based Kit Program provided 29 different hands-on science kits to K-7 classrooms Provided to all 4 th grade students “The World of Bats” Provided to all 2 nd grade students a hands-on outdoor classroom experience Provides various summer science camps

 “Doing experiments helps me to remember and teaches me to figure out problems.” 3rd Grade Student

Professional Development  “You can’t have a learning society without learning students, and you can’t have learning students without learning teachers.” Fullan (1993)

Professional Development Conducted ABC in Science workshops  New Teacher kit workshops  Preparing for Science MEAP Investigations  Unit Revision Workshops Provided workshops for Sanilac County educators and community environmental educators  Science Teacher Leader Program  Websites for Teachers  Instructional Technology

Curriculum Support  “Curriculum planning must be an integral part of the continuous school improvement process.”  Science Education Guidebook

Curriculum Support Sanilac ISD Science Specialist and the Battle Creek Area Math and Science Center revised ABC in Science kits for grades K-6 Sanilac ISD Science Specialist and the Battle Creek Area Math Science Center provided for the first time 7 th grade science investigative, kit based curriculum Support for Science and Math Curriculum Revisions Support of Curriculum Mapping Process Provided technology for K-12 teachers to have common assessments and disaggregation tools of test results

Resource Clearinghouse  “If you want to encourage elementary school teachers to teach science through inquiry, you have to provide them with the right stuff at the right time. You have to give teachers a deal they can’t refuse.”  Larry Small, Science Materials Support (1992)

Resource Clearing House Expanded curriculum materials enhance ABC in Science kits Provide science kits to support inquiry-based science in grades K-7 Monitor ABC in Science kit distribution center to store, refurbish and distribute science kits.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT  “Parents, other community members, administrators, students and teachers all need to work together toward [a common] vision of scientific literacy.  Science Education Guidebook

Community Involvement Showcase Night Return to SCSMC