Promoting Gender Equality in

STEM Classes
Using ADKAR Change Model

Raymon Camitan, Cesar Gonzalez,

Connor Madden, & Dema Youhana
Student Testimonials : Women in STEM/ STEAM
Awareness
- Empathy
- Get women students alumni who studied STEM to speak to staff & students
- Current student panel to present about why it’s important for them to be part
of STEM classes
- Look at data reports:
- School data:
- Gender disparities in advanced math and science classes
- number of females (106/1334 =7.9% ) students vs. males (95
/1506=6.3%) in AP science and math classes
- AP Physics - 24 F out of 71 total students - 1/3 females only - why?
- California Dashboard & Ed-Data over time
- Look at national data, state data, county data, and district data
- Percentage of practitioners in the STEM majors
- Share data with staff members during meetings
- Availability of classes
- Students are not encouraged to take those classes
Desire
What are the Benefits?
-Better job opportunities in the future
-Equity for our students

What are the Risks?

- Tension between teachers and counselors
- Barriers to access STEM courses
What fears do you have?
- Students will not do well in those classes
- “ girls dont want to be in these classes/ dont sign up for them”
What can we do about those fears?
- 60 females not enrolled in AP or honors Science and Math
have a GPA of 3.0 or better (they’re capable!)
-survey students and gauge interest and awareness of
options
Knowledge
- Professional Development for staff on gender inequities
in STEM so that entire team has same outlook/mentality
- Inform parents, stakeholders, and staff of new school
initiatives towards equitable access to STEM activities
creating scheduled times to bring community to learn
about these initiatives so they are in the loop
- Identify dates in the school calendar where we can bring
women in STEM fields from the community so they can
share advocacy for this initiative
- Target:
- 10% increase in juniors and seniors STEM class enrollment
Ability
- Create clubs for women in the STEM majors
- Involve women mentors from the community
- Invite guest speakers who are in the field
- Provide support for students in STEM classes
- Additional tutoring
- Taskforce
- Team responsible for making sure STEM enrollment is equitable
- Reaching out and recruiting female students
Reinforcement
- Women’s history week
- Woman of the month - announcement
- Look at success data
- Women passing STEM classes
- Follow up with alum who graduated and are still
pursuing STEM majors
- Bring female students back to talk to current students
- Review and evaluate our methods
- Improve or maintain methods according to data
Thank You!
Questions?