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名教师合作伙伴，大致分为5个地区。领导力发展项目打算从这个小组中挑选15名成员，为他们提供三年的培训，使他们成为领导力研究员。这一群体将在地理(在全州各地，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)上有所不同。成员们将承诺进行为期三年的预先培训。鉴于对科学和数学教师的迫切需求，特别是在农村地区，领导力项目选择在没有必要的情况下不寻求将教师从课堂上释放出来。潜在的领导力研究员将参加TRSI领导力学院为期3年的课程。他们将被要求每年参加三次为期四天的强化课程，并在科珀斯·克里斯蒂的德克萨斯农工大学校园参加为期一周的夏季课程。这些领导层会议将强调领导力以及与系统性改革相关的主要议题。研究人员将组成区域小组，由区域科学和数学专家进行指导。研究员们将在一项学习、执行和分享格言的框架下，因此将被鼓励相互交流和支持，特别是在区域集团内。将鼓励定期进行电子交流。将设立TRSI领导研究员咨询委员会，每位研究员将从该委员会中挑选一名顾问。在这位导师的指导下，领队将致力于一个旨在影响他们的学校或地区的团契项目。第一年每个研究员将制定他们的项目，该项目将在接下来的两年中每年实施。德克萨斯RSI的评估员将担任领导力学院的相同职能。主要的传播来源是研究员本身--通过他们宣布的学习、实施和分享，以及他们预期返回领导力学院，以帮助培训未来的领导者。

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.