The Improving Elementary Science Instruction Project

教育发展中心公司（EDC）和克利夫兰教育基金与克利夫兰公立学校建立了合作伙伴关系，以帮助该地区改善其基础科学课程。合作项目的主要目标是建立克利夫兰公立学校采用员工发展模式的能力，这将导致实施一个示范性的基于探究的科学项目。预计到项目结束时，该市的每所小学都将选择一个新的实践科学项目，并有一个知情的校长和一个教师团队，在他们实施新项目时随时准备支持他们大楼里的其他人。该项目提供了一个机会，深入审查一个坚定致力于权力下放和校本管理的系统所需的变革进程，同时它正试图改变每一所小学教授科学的方式。因此，预计该项目的评估将增加我们对有效的员工发展模式的理解，这些模式既可以加强基础科学的教学，又可以确保以探究为基础的科学项目的成功制度化。该项目的成本分摊将是国家科学基金部分的近400%。

Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), and the Cleveland Education Fund have formed a partnership with the Cleveland Public Schools to assist the district improve its elementary science program. The primary goal of the collaborative project is to build the Cleveland Public Schools' capacity to employ a staff development model which will lead to the implementation of an exemplary inquiry-based science program. It is anticipated that by the end of the project every elementary school in the city will have selected a new hands-on science program and have an informed principal and a team of teachers ready to support others in their building as they implement the new program. The project provides an opportunity to examine in depth the change process required in a system which is firmly committed to decentralization and school-based management at the same time that it is attempting to change the way science is taught in each elementary school. It is, therefore, anticipated that the project's assessment will increase our understanding of effective staff development models for both enhancing the teaching of elementary science and for assuring the successful institutionalization of inquiry-based science programs. The cost sharing for the project will be almost 400% of the NSF portion.