PGE/PG: Women Exploring Learning through Creative Opportunities for Meaningful Learning (W.E.L.C.O.M.E.) Planning Grant

中部大陆区域教育实验室（McREL）提出了一项规划赠款，以制定一项大型合作提案，妇女探索学习通过创造性的机会，有意义的教育（W.E.L.C.O.M.E.）该项目旨在满足北达科他州、南达科他州和怀俄明州从初中升入高中的年轻女学生的教育和技术需求。 这项规划赠款，与女孩计数公司合作，和美国教育部第八区公平中心在丹佛大都会州立学院，旨在提供一个机会，以澄清与提交W.E.L.C.O.M.E.大型合作提案。 W.E.L.C.O.M.E. o对现有的研究和最佳做法进行详细研究，以确定适当的和 W.E.L.C.O.M.E.设计中的必要内容。项目; o开展详细研究，以确定夏令营方法的必要性和实用性;o确定为中学女生建立和开展夏令营体验的可行性 和他们在北达科他州、南达科他州和怀俄明州的老师;o确定和确保来自每个州的其他合作伙伴的支持;o确定进行夏令营体验的战略地点;o完善课程、数据收集过程和教学方法。

The Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) proposes a planning grant to develop a Large Collaborative proposal, the Women Exploring Learning through Creative Opportunities for Meaningful Education (W.E.L.C.O.M.E.) Project, addressing the educational and technological needs of young women students transitioning from Middle School to High School in the states of North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. This planning grant, in collaboration with Girls Count, Inc., and the U.S. Department of Education Region VIII Equity Center at Metropolitan State College of Denver, is intended to provide an opportunity to clarify issues associated with submitting the W.E.L.C.O.M.E. Large Collaborative proposal. The objectives of the W.E.L.C.O.M.E. Planning Grant are:o Conduct a detailed study of existing research and best practices which will determine appropriate and necessary content in the design of the W.E.L.C.O.M.E. project;o Conduct a detailed study to determine need and utility of a summer camp approach;o Determine the feasibility of establishing and conducting a summer camp experience for middle school girls and their teachers in North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming;o Identify and secure support from other partners in each state;o Determine strategic locations to conduct summer camp experience;o Refine curriculum, data gathering processes and instruction methodologies.