Entrepreneurial Leadership in STEM Teaching & learning (EnLiST)

STEM 教学中的创业领导力

• 批准号: 0831820
• 负责人: Mats Selen
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0831820&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Entrepreneurial; Leadership; STEM; Teaching; &amp

The Entrepreneurial Leadership in STEM Teaching & learning (EnLiST) Partnership is comprised of Thornton High School District #205, South Holland, IL, Champaign Unit 4 School District, Champaign, IL, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which serves as the lead among these core partners. In addition, the following are supporting partners: The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), IMSA-affiliated school districts, and Thornton elementary and middle school feeder districts. EnLiST intends to develop and build the infrastructural elements necessary to sustain a state-wide Illinois community of highly qualified science Teacher Leaders, who will effectively contribute to the transformation of science teaching and learning throughout the K-12 educational continuum in their districts. EnLiST will achieve these goals through a combination of intensive summer institutes and year-round professional development and collaborative activities. The synergy and continuity of these efforts will be ensured through establishment of an on-line community capitalizing on robust technological tools and infrastructure. EnLiST will commence with the development of core cadres of high school chemistry and physics Teacher Leaders organized into district teams. Next, the partnership will support and scaffold the activities of these core cadres as they engage in developing a cadre of middle school and elementary specialist science Teacher Leaders in their school districts. The activities of this latter participant group will focus on an interdisciplinary approach to science teaching and learning in elementary and middle school. Data collection and use will be a central theme in the development of Teacher Leaders and project operation as a whole. The innovation of EnLiST is its intent to reconceptualize the very notion of a "Teacher Leader" by drawing on scholarship in the field of social and entrepreneurial leadership and theories of distributed leadership. EnLiST aims to create a new generation of Teacher Leaders who, armed with cutting edge content knowledge, a strong pedagogical repertoire, and entrepreneurial spirit, can support their colleagues and transform their schools into responsive and data driven institutions of teaching and learning. EnLiST will provide participant science Teacher Leaders with understandings, skills, attitudes, and habits of mind enabling them to perceive themselves, and to act, as agents of change. The entrepreneurial leadership skills that will be developed will arm these Teacher Leaders to meet the many challenges faced by teachers in the current US K-12 educational milieu, including dealing with resource constraints, uncertainty, and multiple goals often related to internally desired and externally imposed demands for change and innovation. They will be equipped to meet the challenges and tensions that have often impeded the adoption of innovative curricula and pedagogies and transformation of K-12 science instructional practices in service of addressing increasingly diverse student population needs. The major research questions of the project will center on understanding and assessing the development of the target Teacher Leaders and the success of those leaders in transforming their own teaching. The ultimate aim is to develop a scalable national model for the preparation of social and entrepreneurial science Teacher Leaders who act as strong champions and effective initiators and implementors of change in pre-college science teaching and learning. The EnLiST research questions are: (a) What is the impact, if any, of the project's activities on participant Teacher Leaders' conceptions, attitudes, skills, and behaviors related to social and entrepreneurial leadership? (b) What is the nature of the perceived organizational culture in partner school districts in relation to barriers to, and encouragement of, innovation and change? What are the associated roles of Teacher Leaders and school administrators? (c) What is the differential impact, if any, of enhanced social and entrepreneurial leadership among Teacher Leaders on effecting innovation and change in science teaching and learning in partner school districts?

STEM教学学习（EnLiST）伙伴关系中的创业领导力由桑顿高中学区#205，南荷兰，IL，尚潘第4单元学区，尚潘，IL和伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-尚潘，作为这些核心合作伙伴中的领导者。 此外，以下是支持合作伙伴：伊利诺伊州数学和科学学院（IMSA），IMSA附属学区，桑顿小学和中学支线地区。 EnLiST打算开发和建设必要的基础设施要素，以维持高素质的科学教师领导者，谁将有效地促进科学教学和学习的整个K-12教育连续体在他们的地区的转变全州伊利诺伊州社区。EnLiST将通过密集的夏季学院和全年的专业发展和合作活动相结合来实现这些目标。这些努力的协同作用和连续性将通过利用强有力的技术工具和基础设施建立一个在线社区来确保。EnLiST将首先培养高中化学和物理教师领导的核心干部，组成地区小组。接下来，该伙伴关系将支持和支持这些核心干部的活动，因为他们在各自的学区从事培养中学和小学专业科学教师领导干部的工作。后一个参与者小组的活动将侧重于小学和中学科学教学的跨学科方法。数据收集和使用将是教师领导者发展和整个项目运作的中心主题。EnLiST的创新之处在于它的意图是通过借鉴社会和创业领导力领域的奖学金以及分布式领导力理论，重新概念化“教师领导者”的概念。 EnLiST旨在培养新一代的教师领导者，他们拥有尖端的内容知识，强大的教学技能和创业精神，可以支持他们的同事，并将他们的学校转变为响应和数据驱动的教学和学习机构。 EnLiST将提供参与科学教师领导者的理解，技能，态度和思维习惯，使他们能够感知自己，并采取行动，作为变革的推动者。 将开发的创业领导技能将武装这些教师领导者，以满足教师在当前美国K-12教育环境中面临的许多挑战，包括处理资源限制，不确定性和多个目标往往与内部期望和外部强加的变革和创新的需求。他们将有能力应对挑战和紧张局势，这些挑战和紧张局势往往阻碍了创新课程和教学方法的采用，以及K-12科学教学实践的转变，以满足日益多样化的学生群体需求。该项目的主要研究问题将集中在了解和评估目标教师领导者的发展和这些领导者在改变自己的教学成功。 最终目标是开发一个可扩展的国家模式，为社会和创业科学教师领导人做准备，他们是大学前科学教学和学习变革的有力支持者和有效发起者和实施者。 EnLiST的研究问题是：（a）项目活动对参与者教师领导者与社会和创业领导力相关的概念、态度、技能和行为有何影响（如果有的话）？(b)在合作学区中，组织文化的本质是什么，与创新和变革的障碍和鼓励有关？教师领导和学校管理者的相关角色是什么？(c)加强教师领导者的社会和创业领导力对合作学区科学教学和学习的创新和变革有何不同的影响？