Partnering

Urban Advantage: Formal-Informal Partnerships to Improve STEM Teaching and Learning in Middle School Science Classrooms

Partnering
Day
Thu

This session examines the potential and challenges of developing effective formal-informal partnerships to support STEM teaching and learning and embedding research agendas into this work.

Date/Time
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Session Type
PI-organized Discussion
Presenters
James Short
Suzanne Wilson
Jamie Mikeska
Kathleen Tinworth
Session Materials
Urban Advantage PPT.pdf

This session presents the work from three projects that are addressing the challenges of using secondary data sets in the classroom to teach ecology. Presenters from each project provide a brief overview of their development and research work followed by a question and answer period. A panel discussion with participants focuses on the following three questions: What are the challenges and benefits of bringing “real” data to the classroom? How do you make complex data accessible to middle and high school students?

Sharing Research Findings with School Districts: Precision, Partnership, and Politics

Dissemination
Partnering
Day
Thu

Presenters will highlight three best practices for communicating research to school district stakeholders—strategic report formats, mutual partnerships, and an emphasis on positive outcomes from programmatic interventions—and will engage participants in roundtable discussion.

Date/Time
Session Type
Project Management & Implementation Roundtable
Facilitators
Kimberle Kelly
Adam Gamoran
Session Materials
communication with school districts final.pdf

Fostering Knowledge Use in STEM Education through R&D Partnerships with Schools and School Districts

Partnering
Day
Thu

Group members will discuss benefits, challenges, and strategies associated with partnerships between STEM education R&D projects and schools and districts, and introduce a group-developed practice brief.

Date/Time
-
Session Type
SIG Presentation
Presenters
David Barnes
Gary Benenson
Loretta Heuer
Mary Hobbs
Cathy Kinzer
Karin Wiburg
Session Materials
Work Group Presentation.ppt
Fostering Knowledge Use in STEM Education.pdf

A group of NSF grantees, all of whom have conducted research or development in partnership with schools and school districts, worked together during 2010 to share and capture their experiences. In this session, members of the working group on Partnerships with Schools and School Districts for Knowledge Use will discuss benefits, challenges, and strategies associated with partnerships between STEM education R&D projects and schools and districts.

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