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

Bryn Mawr学院的可持续发展教育-费城诺伊斯能力建设项目将满足全国对高效教师的需求，这些教师能够通过将STEM研究与现实世界的可持续发展问题联系起来，参与并激励他们的学生在STEM取得成功。该项目将为可持续发展教育领域的硕士教师发展创建一个模式，使教师能够利用可持续发展的主题教授STEM内容。教师将学会将实践教学付诸行动，为学生提供机会，在他们自己的学校和社区应对真正的可持续发展挑战。大师教师将支持费城学区全面可持续发展计划的实施，该计划呼吁将可持续发展的原则纳入整个课程。该项目位于该地区的STEM可持续发展“生态系统”内，拥有丰富的STEM和可持续发展资产，包括非正式教育组织、高等教育机构、绿色企业、社区、家长和教师团体，将被培育以支持大师教师计划和绿色未来计划。由诺伊斯能力建设赠款支持的费城可持续发展教育项目将为未来向Noyce Track 3硕士教学奖学金计划提交赠款奠定基础。在为期一年的能力建设期间，该项目将通过一项试点计划测试大师教师模式的各个方面，该计划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大学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、实施和评估可持续发展主题的STEM课程，其中包括以场所为基础的教学，并将学校设施用作生活实验室。试点将利用STEM可持续发展生态系统中的现有资源。如何建立一个区域STEM生态系统，成功地吸引广泛的利益攸关方，以支持大型城市学区的创新课程倡议，所吸取的经验教训将对该国其他城市地区有价值。为了帮助准备该项目未来提交的Noyce Track 3硕士教学研究金提案，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匹配资金。

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.