Onwards and upwards... integrating STEM ideas into an overloaded curriculum

Well it's been a while internet.... My life as a Teacher-librarian has been busy and contained not as much "librarianing" (yes, it is now a verb) as I'd hoped or thought it would. Or maybe it has. What is a Teacher-librarian in the digital economy anyway? Yes I deal with information, digital information, but my position has seen me spend countless hours in the "back-end" (so to speak) of websites and databases and hand holding... lots of hand holding of digitally shy colleagues trying to push their pedagogy forward into the 21st Century.

Musings aside, as that seems to be a luxury I don't have the time for at the moment, I am now on a new journey, or more aptly an extension of my previous TL journey, in STEM Education *tadah*

So now I'm going to use this platform to track my progress as a "STEM Catalyst" over the next two years. What's a STEM Catalyst? Basically it's an initiative run by the Victorian DET touted as...

A new Secondary STEM Catalysts program to build the capacity of 60 teachers across 30 secondary schools in disadvantaged areas to lead, encourage and support changes to teaching Years 7 and 8 maths and science, including digital technologies.

So, through Deakin Uni, a colleague and myself will be completing a Graduate certificate in STEM Education and be helping our school move into a more integrated approach to education... no pressure...