RET Site: Milwaukee Water-Energy Nexus Education Initiative

RET 站点：密尔沃基水-能源关系教育计划

• 批准号: 1801499
• 负责人: Ilya Avdeev
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-01 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1801499&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RET; Site; Milwaukee; Water; Energy

The objective of the proposed RET Site renewal is to build and support a sustainable scalable RET network of schools, principals, teachers, and industrial partners working together to transform STEM education in Milwaukee, connecting students' passions and aspirations with exciting opportunities to make a difference through research, engineering, and manufacturing innovation. It is expected that new curricula and school-wide transformations will have an impact on 5,000-10,000 students from high-need urban public high schools in the city of Milwaukee. The aim is to catalyze a sustainable RET network that empowers teachers to experiment and make STEM learning exciting, grants principals and administration license to support these experiments (and experiment themselves), and, through the industrial element of the program, build the kind of partnerships that would make learning more contextual and help support program growth. This RET Site offers an intensive seven-week summer experience for 10 teachers per year beginning in late June and ending in early August. The teachers participate in highly structured, team-oriented research projects focused on the water-energy nexus research theme and academic-year curricular development activities. To provide support beyond the classroom, the program will also engage school principals. The teachers' professional development will include a Design Thinking boot camp, curriculum design mentoring, and avatar classroom training. Two RET network conferences will be held annually in which the teachers present their research projects and develop academic-year curriculum. During the first semester of the academic year, the teachers will implement the in-depth six- to eight-week curricular modules that they developed during the summer. The RET site and its activities directly align with the Milwaukee Public Schools District's Comprehensive Math and Science Plan. It will be evaluated in quantitatively terms of participation, impact on students' knowledge and interest in engineering careers, and their mastery of core science concepts that are targeted by the Design Based Learning (DBL) units. By focusing on the water-energy nexus, a topic of broad social impact that is attractive to high school students, it is hoped that the serious economic issues in Milwaukee related to the continuous decline in the number of K-12 students (particularly females and under-represented minorities) who pursue STEM careers will be addressed.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

拟议的 RET 站点更新的目标是建立和支持一个由学校、校长、教师和行业合作伙伴组成的可持续、可扩展的 RET 网络，共同努力改变密尔沃基的 STEM 教育，将学生的热情和愿望与令人兴奋的机会联系起来，以做出改变通过研究、工程和制造创新。预计新课程和全校范围内的变革将对密尔沃基市高需求城市公立高中的 5,000-10,000 名学生产生影响。其目的是促进可持续的 RET 网络，使教师能够进行实验并使 STEM 学习变得令人兴奋，授予校长和行政许可来支持这些实验（以及实验本身），并通过该计划的工业元素建立伙伴关系这将使学习更具情境性并有助于支持项目的发展。该 RET 站点每年为 10 名教师提供为期 7 周的夏季强化体验，从 6 月底开始，到 8 月初结束。教师们参与高度结构化、以团队为导向的研究项目，重点关注水与能源关系研究主题和学年课程开发活动。为了提供课堂以外的支持，该计划还将与学校校长合作。教师的专业发展将包括设计思维训练营、课程设计指导和阿凡达课堂培训。每年将举行两次 RET 网络会议，教师们在会上展示他们的研究项目并开发学年课程。在学年的第一学期，教师们将实施他们在夏季开发的为期六到八周的深入课程模块。 RET 站点及其活动与密尔沃基公立学区的综合数学和科学计划直接一致。它将根据参与情况、对学生知识和工程职业兴趣的影响以及他们对基于设计的学习（DBL）单元所针对的核心科学概念的掌握程度进行定量评估。通过关注水与能源的关系这一对高中生有吸引力的具有广泛社会影响的话题，我们希望密尔沃基的严重经济问题与 K-12 学生（尤其是女生和女生）数量的持续下降有关。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。