1. Brett Barley Associate Director, Education & Health Policy Silicon Valley Leadership Group

3. Silicon Valley: A Laboratory for Learning Goal: Improve student math achievement by focusing on teacher development and instructional strategies. With a priority on low socio-economic school districts. Strategy: Silicon Valley teachers attend an 80- hour professional development course focused on math content through the algebra level. Emphasis on the interrelatedness of arithmetic, algebra and geometry. Plus, an optional 20-hour follow-up Professional Learning Community.

4. Silicon Valley: A Laboratory for Learning Results: Teachers grow by more than 30% moving from D average to a B average. Reach: In the past five years we have served more than 425 teachers in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.

5. Silicon Valley: A Laboratory for Learning Questions Why Intel? Challenges? Potential to expand to other subjects? Teacher reaction?

6. Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education Mission: The IISME Summer Fellowship Program places K-16 teachers of all subjects into high-performance work sites for the summer. IISME exists to address the critical need for a strong, highly-skilled workforce in mathematics, science and technological fields by focusing on teachers as the primary agents for effecting meaningful change in education.

7. Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education Specifics: – Full-time for eight weeks – Project based – $8,200 stipend. – Focus on how skills transfer to students/colleagues. – Over 27 years, IISME has benefitted 2,970 teachers from 650 schools in 122 districts. – IISME teachers have reached over 2 million students, 35% of whom are educationally disadvantaged and underrepresented in science and engineering fields.

8. Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education Success Stories – Sujatha Raghu – teacher at Rolling Hills Middle School – Fellow at Christopher Chidsey’s research lab at Stanford University – Stephanie Darrough-Butler – teacher at Elmhurst Middle School in Oakland - Fellow at Lockheed Martin Space Systems

9. Linking the business, tech and education communities Strategies 1.Start a conversation 2.Find common ground 3.Identify potential partnerships 4.Build initiatives and programs that are mutually beneficial 5.Engage in consistent and rigorous evaluation, adapt your strategy when necessary