Environment, Energy, and Sustainability Science: An Institute for 21st Century Teacher Leaders

由威德纳大学领导的MSP-Start伙伴关系，与布林莫尔学院、特拉华县社区学院、费城大学、林肯大学和哈弗福德乡镇学区合作，正在开发大费城环境、能源和可持续发展科学（ES）2教师领导研究所。其他合作伙伴包括西切斯特大学社会经济研究中心、特拉华谷工业资源中心、能源协调署、美国环境保护署第三区创新办公室、国家科学与公民参与中心及其SENCER项目、宾夕法尼亚校园契约、费城社区发展高等教育网络、万花筒项目、大费城可持续商业网络、以及“21世纪STEM教育伙伴关系”。该项目建立在过去五年中由大费城数学科学伙伴关系的许多合作伙伴建立的关系的基础上，汇集了来自多个机构的教师和资源（“大型大学”模式），为一个学院开发一个连贯、创新、内容丰富的环境、能源和可持续科学多年课程，从而获得一个新开发的硕士学位。参与该研究所的教师(A)在对人类环境可持续性至关重要的领域提高他们的STEM内容知识，(B)在教学中提高他们对基于项目/服务学习和科学教学方法的使用，(C)在积极参与新兴绿色经济的当地企业、非营利组织或政府组织的实习中参与解决现实世界的可持续性问题。(D)培养作为学校变革推动者的重要领导技能，以提高学生对STEM教育的兴趣、学习和参与。该研究所旨在成为一个区域中心，连接教育、商业、非营利和政府组织，以加强该地区的STEM教育和劳动力发展管道，同时支持积极的社会变革，以实现环境可持续性和公民意识。该项目的“大型大学”和“作为区域连接中心的研究所”方法是强有力的合作模式，随着组织和系统适应全球经济的新挑战以及向可持续发展的必要过渡，这些模式可能具有广泛和重要的国家适用性。

This MSP-Start Partnership, led by Widener University, in partnership with Bryn Mawr College, Delaware County Community College, Philadelphia University, Lincoln University, and Haverford Township School District, is developing the Greater Philadelphia Environment, Energy, and Sustainability Science (ES)2 Teacher Leader Institute. Additional partners include the Center for Social and Economic Research at West Chester University, Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center, Energy Coordinating Agency, US EPA Region 3 Office of Innovation, National Center for Science and Civic Engagement and its SENCER program, Pennsylvania Campus Compact, Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development, Project Kaleidoscope, Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, and the 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education. Building on a base of relationships developed over the past five years by many partners in the Math Science Partnership of Greater Philadelphia, the project brings together faculty and resources from multiple institutions (a "Mega-University" model) to develop a coherent, innovative, and content-rich, multi-year curriculum in environment, energy, and sustainability science for an Institute that leads to a newly developed Master's degree. Teachers participating in the Institute (A) improve their STEM content knowledge in areas critical to human environmental sustainability, (B) improve their use of project based/service learning and scientific teaching pedagogies in their teaching, (C) engage in real-world sustainability problem solving in an externship with a local business, non-profit or government organization that is active in the newly emerging green economy, and (D) develop important leadership skills as change agents in their schools to improve student interest, learning, and engagement in STEM education. The Institute aims to serve as a regional hub, connecting educational, business, non-profit and government organizations to strengthen the STEM education and workforce development pipelines in the region and simultaneously support positive social change toward environmental sustainability and citizenship. The project's "Mega-University" and "Institute as a regional connector-hub" approaches are powerful models of collaboration that could have widespread and significant national applicability as organizations and systems adjust to the new challenges of our global economy and to the needed transition to sustainability.