Our Impact: Building Educator Leadership in STEM
Our Impact: Building Educator Leadership in STEM
The Tech Academies Program empowers educators to lead meaningful STEM learning across classrooms, expanded learning, and district networks. Through partnerships with local school districts across Santa Clara, San Benito, and Santa Cruz counties. The Tech continues its long term commitment to building local STEM capacity and equity.
After nearly a decade of partnerships and impact, The Tech Academies is expanding its model to offer more flexible entry points for educators at every stage of their STEM journey.
Our goal is to create confident, connected educators who bring design thinking, computational thinking, and engineering practices to life for their learners.
Partners
- More info about our partnerships San José Public Library and Santa Clara County Library: The Tech connects families with STEM programming offered through local libraries. Region 5 Expanded Learning Partnerships: The Tech connects expanded learning partners with additional STEM education training and resources through the Region 5 STEAM Ecosystem. San Benito County of Education: The Tech works in partnership with SCBOE to provide professional learning for educators, student STEM engagement opportunities, and access to the Tech Challenge. Together, we support rural and under-resourced schools in bringing hands-on engineering and experiences to their students. Tallo: The Tech Academy school district students age 13 and up have the opportunity to create profiles, earn Tech Challenge badges, and be matched with scholarships, college admissions, internships, apprenticeships, jobs, and more.
- 2014-17 Cohort • Lairon College Preparatory Academy with Catholic Charities (Franklin McKinley School District) • Meadows Elementary with Catholic Charities (Franklin McKinley School District) • Monroe Middle School with The Crew (Campbell Union School District) • Ocala STEAM Academy with City Year (Alum Rock Union School District)
- 2015-18 Cohort • Dahl Elementary School with Catholic Charities (Franklin McKinley School District)• Boys & Girls Club of Silicon Valley (Alum Rock School District)• P.A. Walsh STEAM Academy with YMCA (Morgan Hill Unified School District)• Washington Elementary with Catholic Charities and Sacred Heart Community Service (San José Unified School District)
- 2016-19 Cohort • Britton Middle School with MESA (Morgan Hill Unified School District)• Brownell Middle School with Cal-SOAP (Gilroy Unified School District)• Ida Jew Academies with Mount Pleasant After School (Mount Pleasant Elementary School District)• Julia Baldwin Elementary with City of San José ROCK (Oak Grove School District)
- 2017-20 Cohort • Muwekma Ohlone Middle School with THINK Together (San José Unified School District)• El Roble Elementary School with YMCA (Gilroy Unified School District)•El Toro Health Science Academy with The Stampede (Morgan Hill Unified School District)
- 2021-22 Cohort • Alum Rock Union School District• East Side Union High School District• Morgan Hill Unified School District• Oak Grove School District• San José Unified School District
- 2022-23 Cohort • Alum Rock Union School District• Oak Grove School District• Gilroy Unified School District• Morgan Hill Unified School District• Franklin McKinley School District• Evergreen Elementary School District• East Side Union High School District• San José Unified School District
- 2024-25 Cohort • Alum Rock Union School District• East Side Union High School District• Evergreen Elementary School District• Gilroy Unified School District• Oak Grove School District• San José Unified School District
- 2025-26 Cohort • East Side Union High School District• Franklin McKinley School District• Gilroy Unified School District• San Benito County Office of Education• San José Unified School District