Education for Sustainability - Philly: Inspiring Student STEM Engagement and Success by Harnessing Regional Resources and Developing Teacher Leadership

布林莫尔学院的可持续发展教育-费城诺伊斯能力建设项目将解决国家对高效教师的需求，这些教师可以通过将STEM研究与真实的世界可持续发展问题联系起来，参与并激励学生在STEM中取得成功。该项目将创建一个可持续发展教育的教师发展模型，使教师能够使用可持续发展的主题教授STEM内容。教师们将学习将实践教学法，通过为学生提供机会，以解决他们自己的学校和社区真正的可持续性挑战，把学习付诸行动。大师级教师将支持费城学区的全面可持续发展计划，绿色未来，要求在整个课程包括可持续发展的原则的实施。该项目位于该地区的STEM可持续性“生态系统”内，该生态系统拥有丰富的STEM和可持续性资产，包括非正规教育组织、高等教育机构、绿色企业、社区、家长和教师团体，将培养这些资产，以支持硕士教师计划和GreenFutures计划。将奠定基础，为未来拨款提交诺伊斯轨道3硕士教学奖学金计划。在为期一年的能力建设期间，该项目将通过一个试点项目测试硕士教师模式的各个方面，该试点项目涉及来自费城高需求学区的12名STEM教师和来自该项目的社区学院合作伙伴费城社区学院的3名STEM教师。参与者将使用学习社区结构来设计，实施和评估以可持续发展为主题的STEM课程，这些课程将基于场所的教学和使用学校设施作为生活实验室。该试点将利用STEM可持续发展生态系统中的可用资源。关于如何发展一个区域STEM生态系统的经验教训，成功地吸引了广泛的利益相关者，以支持一个大型城市学区的创新课程倡议，将对该国其他城市地区具有价值。为了帮助准备该项目未来的诺伊斯轨道3硕士教学奖学金提案提交，能力建设项目的另一个组成部分将是确定未来提案所需的配套资金。

The Education for Sustainability - Philly Noyce Capacity Building project at Bryn Mawr College will address the national need for highly effective teachers who can engage and inspire their students to succeed in STEM by linking the study of STEM to the real world issue of sustainability. The project will create a model for master teacher development in Education for Sustainability that prepares teachers to teach STEM content using themes from sustainability. The teachers will learn to incorporate hands-on pedagogies that put learning into action by providing opportunities for students to address authentic sustainability challenges in their own schools and communities. The master teachers will support implementation of the School District of Philadelphia's comprehensive sustainability plan, GreenFutures, that calls for including principles of sustainability throughout the curriculum. The project is situated within the region's STEM sustainability "ecosystem," a rich array of STEM and sustainability assets, including informal education organizations, institutions of higher education, green businesses, community, parent and teacher groups, that will be cultivated to support the master teacher program and the GreenFutures plan.The Education for Sustainability - Philly project, which is supported by a Noyce Capacity Building grant, will lay the groundwork for a future grant submission to the Noyce Track 3 Master Teaching Fellowship program. During the one year capacity building period, the project will test aspects of the master teacher model via a pilot program involving 12 STEM teachers from the high-need School District of Philadelphia and three STEM faculty from the project's community college partner, Community College of Philadelphia. Participants will use a learning community structure to design, implement, and assess sustainability themed STEM curricula that incorporate place-based instruction and use school facilities as living laboratories. The pilot will make use of the resources available in the STEM sustainability ecosystem. Lessons learned on how to develop a regional STEM ecosystem that successfully engages a wide range of stakeholders to support a large urban school district's innovative curricular initiative will be of value to other urban regions in the country. To help prepare for the project's future Noyce Track 3 Master Teaching Fellowship proposal submission, an additional component of the capacity building project will be to identify the required matching funds needed for the future proposal.