December 16, 2013 Kacy Redd, Director, Science and Mathematics Education Policy, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities Jennifer Presley, Kacy Redd, Lizanne DeStefano, Charles Coble, and Howard Gobstein APLU’s Science & Mathematics Teacher Imperative Promoting Institutional Change to Strengthen Science Teacher Preparation
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December 16, 2013
Kacy Redd, Director, Science and Mathematics Education Policy, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Jennifer Presley, Kacy Redd, Lizanne DeStefano, Charles Coble, and Howard GobsteinAPLU’s Science & Mathematics Teacher Imperative
Promoting Institutional Change to Strengthen Science Teacher Preparation
Build relationships with colleagues and senior university leaders for campus-
wide change.
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Higher education associations can galvanize university leadership.
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Engaging University Leaders
“SMTI provided a pathway for administrators to participate in the education transformation process on campus, allowed them to achieve a broader perspective of the national education landscape, learn about the reform practices in place in other institutions, and establish the institutions prominence on a national level. Through engaging with other SMTI institutions and learning about their approaches, they deepened their understanding and were more able to engage other faculty and administrators inside the institution as well as those external to the institution. They build stronger collaborations with faculty and, together, could speak with one coherent voice. This emboldened them to embrace opportunities to change institution practices to support faculty and students.”
Institutional leaders willengage when…
Action steps
• Build relationships with colleagues and leadership
• Find synergistic efforts that can bring your project more visibility.– AAU’s stem undergraduate initiative– APLU’s SMTI/MTEP– AAC&U’s Pkal– AASCU’s CCSS-M work– 100kin10