Meeting Overview
Session Proposals
    Collaborative Sessions
    Feedback Sessions
Proposal Submission Instructions
     Proposals Should Include
     Presenters
     Review Process
Additional Information
     Scheduling
     Room Set-up and AV
     Presentation Materials

SUBMIT NOW
Deadline is January 31, 2012

Meeting Overview
The 2012 DR K-12 PI Meeting will take place on June 13-15 at the Hyatt Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia. The Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE), the resource network for DR K-12 grantees, is pleased to host the event. The overarching goal of the meeting is to engage the DR K-12 community in building and sharing new knowledge, best practices, and tools critical to increasing the impact and sustainability of our work over time. Developed with advice and guidance from the PI meeting advisors* and the evaluation of the 2010 DR K-12 PI Meeting, the 2012 PI meeting will provide opportunities for networking and substantive conversations for approximately 300 participants, including NSF grantees, program managers, and guests.

Session Proposals
To foster collaboration, DR K-12 PI meetings feature general poster sessions, informal conversations, and special interest group meetings. (More information about these opportunities will be sent in future communications.)  In this Call for Proposals, CADRE invites proposals for awardee-led concurrent sessions (Collaborative Sessions and Feedback Sessions) that are responsive to the goals of the meeting and address topics of potential interest to subgroups of PIs. All proposals will be vetted and the final agenda will represent a combination of sessions and opportunities that are varied in structure, content, and presenters, representing the diversity that is emblematic of DR K-12.

Collaborative Sessions: CADRE encourages grantees to coordinate sessions with colleagues across institutions and projects. The sessions should go beyond a simple showcase of project work. Rather, presenters should address multiple perspectives and approaches to questions and challenges, setting the stage for discussion about the issues that these differences highlight, areas of alignment, findings, and suggestions for further exploration.

Suggested formats: Panels should include presenters from 2 - 4 projects and include time for participant discussion. We also invite proposals for structured poster sessions, which include time during which participants can view posters of the presenter projects, in addition to a panel and/or discussion.

For those who are interested in finding colleagues engaged in work that may, when paired together, create the basis for a compelling session, we encourage you to use Project Smart Search at CADREK12.org. You may also contact cadre@edc.org for information about possible matching projects.

Feedback Sessions: Many DR K-12 projects are creating products and instruments such as curriculum units, virtual environments, observation protocols, assessment instruments, etc.  The feedback sessions are meant to foster product –participant interaction to provide both the presenter(s) and participants with an opportunity to explore possible additional uses, adaptations and customizations, and/or refinements of a product under development. For example, in some cases it would be helpful to have a group engage in critical feedback during the development stage of a product such as a virtual game. In other cases, participants might want to consider if and how a product (e.g., a teacher content knowledge assessment instrument) may be used in their work, and if customization is required, what that would entail. In these “hands-on” sessions, the product should be available to the participants during the session.

Proposal Submission Instructions
Please submit your proposal online by January 31, 2012. Since you will not be able to return to the site and edit your submission, we suggest that you preview the survey so you will know the information that is required. Please note that you can't directly upload any text you might prepare in the preview document.

Proposals Should Include:

• Presenter(s) information (name, organization, contact information, project title)
• Session title
• Content area(s) of STEM
• Topic or product
• Question, issue, or challenge that is the primary focus of the session
• Session summary (limited to 25 words)
• Session description (approximately 500 words, no graphics; include the objectives and structure/format of the session)

Presenters: Lead presenters must be grantees invited to the 2012 DR K-12 PI meeting. Please refer to the invitee list attached to the call for proposals email (due to privacy concerns, we have not made the list publicly available on the website). Each presenter is allowed to lead only one session, but may be a co-presenter on more than one session. Please complete the information section for all the presenters and indicate who will be the main contact.

Review Process: Typically, not all proposals are selected for sessions. Proposals will be reviewed using the following criteria and the session contact person will be notified by mid-March –earlier if revisions are suggested –if their session is chosen for inclusion in the meeting.

Criteria for selection:

• For Collaborative Sessions: collaboration involving more than one project and providing multiple perspectives and examples of a theme, approaches to a challenge, and/or responses to a question; and consideration of compelling questions, issues, challenges, and findings that might inform the work of PIs on other projects
• For Feedback Sessions: effective plan to share instruments, tools, or other products with the intent of analyzing some aspect of them and soliciting feedback
• For all sessions: plan for participant participation, and a complete and clear proposal

Additional Information
Scheduling: Most concurrent sessions will be scheduled for two hours on either June 14^th or 15^th. If you would like to make a special scheduling request (if, for instance, you are not available to present at a particular time or would like a shorter or longer session), please contact us directly at cadre@edc.org.

Room Set-up and AV: Unless you request otherwise, you can expect each meeting room to be set up in rounds and to have easel paper and markers available. However, laptops, extension cords, speakers, and LCD projectors will not be available in all rooms. If you need these items but cannot bring your own, please let us know. In addition, we cannot guarantee that all rooms will have Internet connectivity. Please let us know if the internet is essential for your session.

Presentation Materials: All presenters are expected to submit their PowerPoint presentations, papers, or other materials related to the session prior to the meeting in order to be made available on CADREK12.org. If these materials should not be released beyond the CADRE community, please let us know. Please use proper citations for all referenced materials.

SUBMIT NOW
Deadline is January 31, 2012

QUESTIONS? Call 617-618-2413 or email us at cadre@edc.org.

*2012 PI Meeting Advisors: Jamal Abedi, Jodi Asbell-Clarke, Marina Bers, Cory Buxton, June Mark, Laurie Rubel, John Settlage<