Delta Rural Systemic Initiative Project

9700041亚历山大摘要三角洲农村系统倡议三角洲农村系统倡议是代表阿肯色州、路易斯安那州和密西西比州的州立、地方和大学教育工作者联盟向密西西比大学颁发的奖项。该项目的目标是这三个州下密西西比河三角洲地区的农村贫困学区。DRSI项目将：(1)改善目标县/教区的K-14学习环境，以满足学生的需求，促进学生在科学、数学和技术(SMT)方面的成就；(2)提高当地社区的能力，以建立和保持高质量的科学、数学和技术教育机会；(3)建立机制，促进地方和州一级制定和实施适当的政策，以支持SMT教育改革；以及(4)建立地区基础设施，利用州内和州间联盟发展可持续的地区科学、数学和技术教育改进。DRSI有3个主要重点领域：地方和区域能力建设和领导力发展--该倡议将为地区和学校人员提供领导力机构和专业发展机会，旨在促进基于标准的教学和采用系统性改革原则。其中一些将由倡议团队直接提供或通过分包合同提供，另一些将由地区开发并由倡议的分奖提供支持。资源汇聚和经纪--倡议领导层和外地人员将协助区域学校人员以适应系统改革的方式重新调整和重新分配资金分配。。。。就是这样。技术援助和现场后续行动--该倡议将通过外地工作人员，系统地向地区和学校工作人员提供技术支持，以改进采用基于标准的做法的教育工作。DRSI将通过与地区和学校人员直接合作来促进教育系统改革--一些地区特有的机会和一些地区提供的机会。大部分针对地区的工作将由六名外地协调员负责，他们将被分配到某些参与地区。-

9700041 Alexander ABSTRACT The Delta Rural Systemic Initiative The Delta Rural Systemic Initiative (DRSI) is an award to the University of Mississippi on behalf of a consortium of state, local, and university educators in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The project targets rural, impoverished school districts in the Lower Mississippi River Delta region of the three states. The DRSI project will: (1) improve the K-14 learning environment in the targeted counties/parishes to address student needs and promote student achievement in science, mathematics, and technology (SMT); (2) increase the capacity of local communities to build and maintain quality science, mathematics, and technology educational opportunities; (3) establish mechanisms that promote the development and implementation of appropriate policies at local and state levels that will sustain SMT education reform; and (4) create a regional infrastructure that will utilize intra- and interstate alliances to develop sustainable regional improvements in science, mathematics and technology education. The DRSI has 3 primary focus areas: Local and regional capacity building and leadership development-The initiative will offer to the district and school personnel leadership institutes and professional development opportunities that are designed to promote standards-based instruction, and adoption of systemic reform principles. Some of these will be given directly by the initiative team or through sub-contracts, and some will be developed by the districts and supported by sub-awards from the initiative. Resource convergence and brokerage-The initiative leadership and field personnel will provide assistance to regional school personnel in realigning and redistributing funding allocations in a manner responsive to systemic reform . . . . prmclples. Technical assistance and on-site follow-up-The initiative, through field personnel, will systematically provide technical a ssistance to district and school personnel in a manner that will improve educational efforts to adopt standards-based practices. DRSI will facilitate educational systemic reform by working directly with district and school personnel--some district-specific opportunities and some offered on a regional basis. Much of the district-specific work will be the responsibility of six Field Coordinators (FCs), who will be assigned to certain participating districts. -