项目 & 倡议
倡议
Professional Development for Teachers
科学老师: One of our 项目s for the professional development of science teachers is the 镜头 项目. 镜头 (学习 Enhanced through the Nature of Science) is an inter-disciplinary professional development program designed to develop science content 知识, 教学技能, 评估知识, and peer coaching capacity among Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) high school teachers of Earth Science, 生物学, 化学与物理. 这个项目 is a partnership between bet8体育娱乐入口 (ODU), Tidewater Community College (TCC), the College of William and Mary (W&M)和VBCPS.
RESEARCH Experiences for Teachers (RET): This 项目 is a collaboration with faculty from the 巴顿工程学院 & 技术 at ODU to train STEM teachers in alternative energy research through hands-on laboratory and computational experiences, using the argument-driven inquiry (ADI) approach. TCEP serves in both curriculum development and evaluation roles on this 项目.
投资创新(I3): 这个项目 focuses on providing students in high-need middle schools with increased access to rigorous and engaging coursework in science, 技术, 工程 and mathematics (STEM). 这个项目 also focuses on teachers by incorporating an innovative, 高质量的, multi-tiered approach to professional development that employs school-based math coaching, an online platform to promote a sense of community, and teacher-made videos of their own practices.
大学和职业准备
TCEP faculty seek to promote positive academic, 社会, and personal outcomes of all students through various 项目s focusing on college and career readiness, high school dropout prevention and recovery, career and technical education, 以及社会情感健康. Collaborations with faculty from the 达顿教育学院 & Professional Studies at Old Dominion as well as external contributors from the National Dropout Prevention Center, the Successful Practices Network, 克莱姆森大学, and 美国niversity of Memphis focus on equitable access to quality education through the shared goal of ensuring that all students graduate on time with the skills and dispositions necessary to successfully enter the workforce or pursue higher education.
支持 for 军事 Connected Schools
教学, Evaluation and Advocacy for 军事-connected Students (团队) is an interdisciplinary initiative to ensure that practicing educators and those new to the profession have the awareness, 知识, and evidence-based competencies needed to maximize learning for students of military families. By augmenting and facilitating the missions of other agencies and programs, we ensure every military child is educated in military conscious schools by individuals who are well prepared to effectively respond to the unique learning and 社会-emotional needs of military-connected children. The 团队 initiative provides in-service education and support for Teachers, 管理员, School counselors and 支持 personnel as well as evaluation for programs and services currently in use.
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学习 and Identity Development in Community and Museum Settings
Change YOUR Game | Cambia TU Juego: (Current) Change YOUR Game | Cambia TU Juego involves the development of a museum exhibition that uses sports and invention to leverage visitors' inventive identities. 这个项目, which is directed by the Lemelson Center at the National Museum of American 历史 in Washington DC, is supported by the National Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM 学习 (AISL). TCEP执行董事. Joanna Garner is a member of the 项目 team and the exhibition's advisory board. Her research, in collaboration with Dr. Avi Kaplan of Temple University, is focusing on strategies for encouraging diverse visitors to explore invention and innovation in their own lives.
发明教育: (Current) Invention education bridges the gap between STEM education and entrepreneurship. It teaches students specific skills such as problem finding, 意念, 测试, 原型设计, 推销产品. TCEP执行董事. Joanna Garner and Education Specialist Melissa Kuhn are working on several invention education research 项目s. In partnership with Camp Invention® they are investigating ways that invention education settings can support children's STEM identity development and increase participation by historically underrepresented groups of students. This work has been funded by the National Inventors' Hall of Fame, Lemelson基金会, 伯顿D. Morgan Foundation, and the Overdeck Family Foundation.
同一个Community，同一个挑战: (Past) This 项目 involves the creation of STEAM (science, 技术, 艺术, 工程, and mathematics) challenges that are delivered in the community in the form of "pop up" facilitated events. 同一个Community，同一个挑战 was inspired by way that community book challenges bring people together, and the rise in interest in making and tinkering that supports people's creativity and ingenuity. TCEP执行董事. Joanna Garner is a member of the leadership team for the 项目, which is funded by the National Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM 学习 (AISL) and co-directed by Dr. Sheri Vasinda博士. 斯蒂芬妮·哈斯科克博士. Rebecca Brienen at Oklahoma State University.
RESEARCHer-Practitioner Partnership with the 巴里艺术博物馆: (Past) Ahead of its opening in 2018, The Center for Educational Partnerships worked closely with the 巴里艺术博物馆 to design an interactive space in its Education Gallery called the 参观者反思工作室. 的空间, which offered visitors of all ages the opportunity to draw or write a response to the museum's collection, included custom made abstract art pieces and an adjacent wall on which responses could be displayed. When this exhibit was replaced by a lifetime retrospective show by the New York based abstract artist Joan Thorne in early 2020, TCEP faculty participated in the creation of media products that provided the community with insights into the artist's life and work.
支持 for Trauma 影响ed Students
In 2019, the National Dropout Prevention Center launched the Trauma Skilled Schools Model, to help prepare educators minimize the effects of stress and trauma on learning, 社会发展, and behavior by adjusting climate, 文化, and practice across all areas of school. TCEP教授. Shanan Chappell Moots is a Certified Trauma Skilled Schools Specialist and works with the NDPC and schools across the nation counteract the impact of traumatic experiences and conditions in children by shifting 知识 and awareness of and sensitivity to trauma and its impacts into actionable steps to support coping and resilience.
项目评估
TCEP faculty have substantial experience conducting program evaluations for educational initiatives in PK12 and higher education. Evaluation activities include both formative and summative program assessment and review, with 项目s funded by such agencies as the National Science Foundation, 海军RESEARCH办公室, 美国.S. 教育部, the Virginia 教育部, and the Department of Defense Education Activity, 等. Project partners include numerous local and regional school divisions and institutions of higher education such as Penn State University, 克莱姆森大学, 西华盛顿大学, 和约翰霍普金斯大学. Program evaluations have focused on STEM education initiatives, dropout recovery and prevention, middle and high-school mathematics programs, 社会-emotional wellbeing 项目s, and elementary literacy development.
组织咨询
The Center for Educational Partnerships (TCEP) provides organizational consulting to a variety of local, 状态, and national organizations as leaders manage new opportunities and seek to understand and effect system-wide change. Its faculty members draw on decades of experience as practitioners, RESEARCH人员, and leaders to identify and support actions that build capacity and improve organizational effectiveness. TCEP can join strategic planning, 格兰特写作, or 项目 management teams to facilitate the development of logic models and theories of action and change; apply conceptual frameworks to promote a shared understanding of organizational phenomena; conduct needs assessments; use formative and summative evaluation techniques to optimize program implementation; conduct small- and large-scale training; and disseminate findings to intended audiences.
