LEADERS: Leadership for Educators: Academy for Driving Economic Revitalization in Science

教育者领导力：科学推动经济振兴学院 (LEADERS) 是一个数学和科学合作伙伴关系，汇集并融合了大湖区经济振兴四个重要实体的专业知识：K-12 学区、高等教育、可再生能源行业和非正式科学教育场所。 核心合作伙伴（托莱多大学艺术与科学学院和教育学院以及托莱多公立学校）和支持合作伙伴（托莱多大学工程学院、阿克伦地区学校、托莱多教区学校、门罗县中级学区、门罗县社区学院、托莱多科学中心、TechniGraphics、Blue Water Satellite、赖特光伏创新和商业化中心以及五大湖 WIND 网络）领导者伙伴关系拥有以学生为中心的教育愿景，将社区经济增长与科学教育结合起来。 LEADERS 的目标是通过纳入与可再生能源行业及其环境影响相关的基于项目的科学 (PBS)，使其与学生息息相关，从而改善科学教育，而可再生能源行业正在成为大湖区经济发展的重要组成部分。 来自四个合作学区的一组，每个学区有六名教师参加领导者计划，每组为期 2.5 年（教师领导者总数为 24 人）。 每个区的教师领导小组包括小学、初中和高中各两个级别的教师领导小组。 为了促进学区的实施，一名校长和一名学区行政人员以及他们的教师领导团队也参与了该学院。 在夏季，教师领导完成物理、化学、环境科学和工程方面的研究生课程。 内容课程由一位科学家和一位科学教育家团队授课，他们将内容与 PBS 进行混合。 当教师领导返回各自的学区时，他们负责监督 PBS 活动的设计和实施，将州和国家科学标准与相关应用联系起来。 领导者正在努力实现以下成果： 1) 培养一支高效的教师领导干部队伍，他们能够将科学内容与大湖区新兴的科学产业联系起来，从而改变科学教育。 2) 增加合作地区拥有丰富内容、教学法和领导技能和知识的教师数量。 3) 通过 PBS 将现有的 K-12 科学课程转变为严格且相关的科学课程。 4) 培养 K-12 学生达到科学和数学成绩标准，同时对科学和技术职业产生兴趣。 5) 发展社区科学教育网络，通过开发和实施高级或改进的科学课程进行协作。

Leadership for Educators: Academy for Driving Economic Revitalization in Science (LEADERS) is a mathematics and science partnership that gathers and merges the expertise of four essential entities in the economic revitalization of the Great Lakes Region - K-12 school districts, higher education, the renewable energy industry, and informal science education sites. The core partners (the Colleges of Arts & Sciences and Education at the University of Toledo and the Toledo Public Schools) and supporting partners (the University of Toledo College of Engineering, Akron area schools, the Toledo Diocese Schools, the Monroe County Intermediate School District, Monroe County Community College, the Toledo Science Center, TechniGraphics, Blue Water Satellite, Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization, and Great Lakes WIND Network) of the LEADERS partnership share a vision of student-centered education that knits community economic growth with science education. The goal of LEADERS is to improve science education by making it relevant to students through the incorporation of Project-Based Science (PBS) that is linked to the renewable energies industry and its environmental impacts, which is becoming a vital element in the economic development of the Great Lakes Region. Drawing from the four partner school districts, one cohort of six teachers per district are participating in the LEADERS program for 2½ years per cohort (total teacher leaders, 24). Teams of teacher leaders from each district include two each from the elementary, middle, and high school levels. To facilitate district implementation, one principal and one district administrator are also participating in the Institute along with their cohort of teacher leaders. During the summer, teacher leaders complete graduate courses in physics, chemistry, environmental science, and engineering. Content courses are team taught by a scientist and a science educator who model blending the content with PBS. When the teacher leaders return to their respective districts, they are responsible for overseeing the design and implementation of PBS activities that connect state and national science standards with relevant applications. LEADERS is striving toward the following outcomes: 1) Developing a cadre of effective teacher leaders who are capable of transforming science education by linking science content with emerging science-based industries in the Great Lakes Region. 2) Increasing the number of teachers in partnering districts who have strong content, pedagogy and leadership skills and knowledge. 3) Transforming existing K-12 science courses to rigorous and relevant science courses through PBS. 4) Preparing K-12 students who meet science and mathematics achievement standards while also becoming interested in science and technical careers. 5) Developing community science education networks that collaborate through the development and implementation of advanced or improved science courses.