Rural Systemic Initiatives in Science, Mathematics,and Technology Education - RSI: Leadership Fellows for the Texas Rural Systemic Initiative

摘要德克萨斯州农村系统倡议（TRSI）目前有450个教师合作伙伴，大致分为5个地区。“领导力发展项目”计划从该小组中选出15名成员，对他们进行为期三年的培训，成为“领导力研究员”。该小组将在地理（全州各地，分布在各个地区），专业领域（科学或数学）和年级水平（小学或中学）方面多样化。成员们将预先接受为期三年的培训。鉴于对科学和数学教师的迫切需求，特别是在农村地区，领导力项目选择不寻求教师离开课堂，除非必要。潜在的领导力研究员将参加TRSI领导力学院，为期3年。他们将被要求每年参加三次为期四天的密集课程，此外还需要在科珀斯克里斯蒂的德州农工大学校园参加为期一周的暑期课程。这些领导会议将强调领导方面以及与系统改革有关的主要议题。奖学金获得者将组成由区域科学和数学专家指导的区域小组。研究员将遵循学习、执行和分享的原则，因此将被鼓励相互交流和相互支持，特别是在区域集团内。将鼓励定期进行电子通讯。将会有一个TRSI领导奖助生顾问委员会，每位奖助生将从这个委员会中挑选一位顾问。在该顾问的指导下，领袖将致力于一项旨在影响其学校或地区的奖学金计划。每位奖学金学生将在第一年发展他们的计划，该计划将在接下来的两年实施。德州RSI的评估者将在领导学院扮演同样的角色。传播的主要来源是研究员自己——通过他们对学习、实施、分享的宣言，以及他们期望回到领导力学院帮助培养未来的领导者。

AbstractThe Texas Rural Systemic Initiative (TRSI) currently has 450 Teacher Partners roughly divided into 5 regions. The Leadership Development Project intends to select 15 members of this group to give them three years of training to become Leadership Fellows. The group will be diverse in geography (around the state, distributed among the regions), area of expertise (science or mathematics) and grade level (elementary or secondary). The members will commit to the three-years of training up-front.Given the dire need for science and mathematics teachers, especially in rural areas, the Leadership Project opted not to seek the release of teachers from the classroom any more than necessary. The potential Leadership Fellows would participate in the TRSI Leadership Academy for the 3 years. They would be required to participate each year in three four-day intensive sessions, and in addition a one-week summer session at the Texas A & M campus in Corpus Christie. These leadership sessions would emphasize leadership strands as well as major topics associated with systemic reform. The Fellows will form regional groups mentored by regional science and mathematics specialists. The Fellows will be under a learn, implement, share dictum, and thus will be encouraged to communicate with and support each other, especially within regional groups. Electronic communication on a regular basis will be encouraged.There will be a TRSI Leadership Fellows Advisory Board and each of the Fellows will select an advisor from this board. Under the guide of this advisor, the Leader will work on a Fellowship Project with the intent of impacting their school or district. The first year each Fellow will develop their project, which will be implemented in each of the following two years of the project. The evaluator for the Texas RSI will act in the same function for the Leadership Academy. The main source of dissemination is intended to be the Fellows themselves-both through their pronouncement of learn, implement, share, and their expected return to the Leadership Academy to help train future leaders.