STEM PUSH Playbook
A Playbook for STEM Learning Ecosystems
Across the country
Ecosystems like yours are helping give the future of STEM education the PUSH it needs.
Now more than ever, our systems of learning are ripe for reinvention.
Too many classrooms, programs, and institutions lack the explicit equity focus needed to ensure each student succeeds. In turn, students from specific racial and ethnic groups, namely Black and Brown students, continue to be underrepresented in STEM majors and fields, creating not only a diversity deficit but a deficit of ideas and innovation needed to solve society’s most pressing problems.
Quick Start Toolkit
These resources provide additional information on the STEM PUSH Network, the ecosystem role in advancing equitable STEM admissions, and specific tools you can use to begin recruiting PCSPs and sharing your work. Rather than strict templates, these are meant to be models that inspire and inform as you explore the playbook.
About the STEM PUSH Network
- Origins of STEM PUSH Video
- STEM PUSH Network Background
- STEM PUSH Network Structure
Jump to Strategies & Plays
- Identify PCSPs based on STEM PUSH criteria.
- Leverage ecosystem resources to support PCSPs.
- Connect PCSPs and STEM PUSH with higher education admissions departments.
- Disseminate work of STEM PUSH.
- Identify and facilitate connections with equity-focused STEM institutions and departments in higher education.
- Help design and brand STEM PUSH accreditation.
- Facilitate conversations with policymakers.
- Facilitate conversations with funders.
- Share your experience with fellow STEM Learning Ecosystems.
The STEM PUSH Network designed this digital playbook to help you:
- Identify and support precollege STEM programs in your region that are working to increase equity in STEM
- Build connections between precollege STEM programs and local higher education admissions departments and professionals
- Identify and facilitate conversations with policymakers, funders, and other stakeholders invested in equitable STEM systems
