Michigan Rural Systemic Initiative (MiRSI) Comprehensive Regional Plan for Systemic Reform in Mathematics, Science and Technology

密歇根农村系统倡议 (MiRSI) 数学、科学和技术系统改革综合区域计划

• 批准号: 0000352
• 负责人: Claudia Douglass
• 金额: $ 536.67万
• 依托单位: Cheboygan Otsego Presque Isle Intermediate School District
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-01 至 2003-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0000352&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Michigan; Rural; Systemic; Initiative; MiRSI

Michigan Rural Systemic InitiativeAbstractThe Michigan Rural Systemic Initiative (MIRSI) to Improve Science, Mathematics and Technical Education seeks to organize a consortium of seventeen school districts and two Native American academies in isolated rural school districts in northern Michigan. The Michigan RSI is working collaboratively with universities, community colleges, Tribal Colleges and other agencies to promote local capacity for systemic reform. The initiative will promote standards-base MST by enhancing teacher knowledge of content and technology processes to increase student achievement. Regional coordinators located in the school districts will make available technical assistance, professional development activities and a web-based technology venue to increase access to information and innovations in mathematics, science, and technology education. Web-based technologies will allow rural educators, students, parents, and stakeholders to participate in learning communities for investigations, communications, collaborations, and publications. The RSI will assist districts in the re-alignment and leveraging of resources and to institute the policy changes necessary for true systemic change.The goals of the proposal are to: (1) improve support for the development of a reform agenda for rural schools by forming new regional and statewide collaborations among the rural districts, Michigan State University, North Central Regional Education Laboratory, and other institutions or agencies; (2) to increase community and business involvement in the schools to support the rural agenda in mathematics, science and technology; (3) enhance the understanding of the rural communities and cultures by gathering base-line data from self-studies that examine the contextual variables within the communities and that support the reform agenda; (4) to generate a comprehensive and sustainable implementation plan for systemic reform in mathematics, science, and technology education that transcends levels, and addresses a local and regional vision, seeks a commitment to policy, fiscal and instructional reform, a comparison of programmatic strengths and weaknesses, a secure level of resources to promote change and an expedited reform through state and local policy changes. This proposal aligns with the Michigan School Improvement Plan.

密歇根州农村系统倡议提高科学、数学和技术教育的密歇根州农村系统倡议(MIRSI)寻求在密歇根州北部与世隔绝的农村学区组织一个由17个学区和两个美洲原住民学院组成的联盟。密歇根州RSI正在与大学、社区学院、部落学院和其他机构合作，以促进当地进行系统性改革的能力。该倡议将通过加强教师对内容和技术过程的了解来促进基于标准的MST，以提高学生的成绩。设在学区的区域协调员将提供技术援助、专业发展活动和基于网络的技术场所，以增加获得信息和数学、科学和技术教育创新的机会。基于网络的技术将允许农村教育工作者、学生、家长和利益相关者参与学习社区，以进行调查、交流、合作和出版。该计划的目标是：(1)通过在农村地区、密歇根州立大学、北中部地区教育实验室和其他机构或机构之间建立新的区域和全州范围的合作，改善对农村学校改革议程发展的支持；(2)增加社区和企业对学校的参与，以支持农村数学、科学和技术方面的农村议程；(3)通过收集自学的基本数据来增进对农村社区和文化的了解，这些自学研究考察了社区内部的背景变量，并支持改革议程；(4)为数学、科学和技术教育的系统改革制定全面和可持续的实施计划，该计划超越层级，着眼于地方和区域视野，寻求对政策、财政和教学改革的承诺，比较计划的长处和弱点，确保促进改革的资源水平，并通过国家和地方政策改革加快改革。这项提案与密歇根学校改善计划相一致。