1. Committee on STEM Education: 5-year Strategic Federal STEM Education Plan
Presented by the US Department of Education. More information at
Goal 1 Lead: Office of STEM,
US Department of Education
Contact: Camsie McAdams,
Acting Director

2. “Leadership tomorrow depends on how we educate our students today—especially in science, technology, engineering and math.”
President Barack Obama

3. Participating Organizations
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of the Interior
Department of Transportation
Environmental Protection Agency
Executive Office of the President
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Science Foundation
Smithsonian Institution

4. National Goals for STEM Education
Improve STEM Instruction: Prepare 100,000 excellent new K-12 STEM teachers by 2020, and support the existing STEM teacher workforce Increase and Sustain Youth and Public Engagement in STEM: Support a 50 percent increase in the number of U.S. youth who have an authentic STEM experience each year prior to completing high school Enhance STEM Experience of Undergraduate Students: Graduate 1 million additional students with degrees in STEM fields over the next 10 years

5. Goals, continued
Better Serve Groups Historically Under-represented in STEM Fields: Increase the number of students from groups that have been underrepresented in STEM that graduate with STEM degrees in the next 10 years and improve women’s participation in areas of STEM where they are significantly underrepresented
Design Graduate Education for Tomorrow’s STEM Workforce: Provide graduate-trained STEM professionals with basic and applied research expertise, options to acquire specialized skills in areas of national importance, mission-critical workforce needs for the CoSTEM agencies, and ancillary skills needed for success in a broad range of careers.

6. Coordination Approaches
Build new models for leveraging assets and expertise. Implement a strategy of lead and collaborating agencies to leverage capabilities across agencies to achieve the most significant impact of Federal STEM education investments.
Build and use evidence-based approaches. Conduct STEM education research and evaluation to build evidence about promising practices and program effectiveness, to be used across agencies, and share with the public to improve the impact of the Federal STEM education investment.

7. P-12 Strategic Objectives
Identify, develop, test, and support effective teacher preparation efforts that encourage teachers’ use of evidence-based practices that provide students with rich STEM learning opportunities.
Increase the number and quality of authentic STEM experiences for pre- and in-service P-12 teachers participating in Federally-supported internship, fellowship, and scholarship programs.

8. P-12 Near-Term Actions
Identify and assess Federal investments that incentivize (a) the recruitment or training of excellent K-12 STEM teachers to work in high-need schools and (b) the retention of those effective STEM teachers whose students show annual growth in STEM learning.
Identify and assess Federal STEM investments in teacher IFS, including: size, scope, structure, methods, status of assessment and evaluation activities and characteristics of included STEM experiences.
Initiate plans for linking existing resources with new infrastructures for reaching wide audiences.

9. P-12 Near-Term Outcomes
Better understanding of Federal investments that incentivize (a) the recruitment or training of excellent P-12 STEM teachers to high-need schools and (b) the retention of those effective STEM teachers whose students show annual growth in STEM learning.
Collect information about Federal investments in teacher IFS including recommended additional information beyond that which was available. A baseline of relevant programs will provide the basis upon which assessment criteria can be developed. These criteria will be used to compare/contrast practices to develop guidance.