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

教育工作者的领导力：推动科学经济振兴学院（LEADERS）是一个数学和科学合作伙伴关系，聚集并合并了五大湖区经济复兴中四个重要实体的专业知识——K-12学区、高等教育、可再生能源产业和非正式科学教育场所。核心合作伙伴（托莱多大学艺术、科学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、蓝水卫星、赖特光伏创新和商业化中心、和大湖风网络)的领导者合作伙伴关系共享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的目标是通过将基于项目的科学（PBS）与可再生能源产业及其环境影响相结合，使科学教育与学生相关，从而改善科学教育，这正在成为大湖地区经济发展的重要因素。从四个合作学区中抽取，每个学区有一组6名教师参加LEADERS项目，每组为期2年半（总共有24名教师领导）。各区教师领导小组由小学、初中和高中各两名教师组成。为了促进地区实施，一名校长和一名地区行政人员也与他们的教师领导队伍一起参加了该研究所。在夏季，教师领导完成物理、化学、环境科学和工程学的研究生课程。内容课程由一名科学家和一名科学教育家组成，他们将内容与PBS相结合。当教师领导回到各自的学区后，他们负责监督PBS活动的设计和实施，这些活动将州和国家科学标准与相关应用联系起来。LEADERS正在努力取得以下成果：1)培养一支有效的教师领导队伍，他们能够通过将科学内容与大湖地区新兴的科学产业联系起来，改变科学教育。2)在合作地区增加具有强大内容、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科学课程转变为严谨和相关的科学课程。4)培养符合科学和数学成绩标准的K-12学生，同时对科学和技术职业感兴趣。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.