GSE/EXT: California WomenTech Extension Services Project (CalWomenTech)

加州妇女技术推广服务（CalWomenTech）正在为加州社区学院（CACC）系统提供服务，以增加妇女对技术教育方案的参与。 设在加州州阿拉米达的妇女贸易、技术和科学研究所与弗朗西斯科城市学院合作提供服务。 智力优势。 重点放在服务社区学院，也是技术中心在加州：1）加州社区学院系统的技术中心; 2）工程技术中心，一个全州的项目，加州教育部;和3）NSF的先进技术教育（ATE）中心/项目在加州。8到10个技术中心将组成CalWomenTech领导团队，每个团队约10名成员，包括技术、数学和科学教师、管理人员、顾问和商业伙伴。计划为这个社区开展的活动和产品包括：开发CalWomenTech网站，作为国家教育界最佳实践和CalWomenTech中心实施最佳实践的知识库;开发模板辅助招聘材料;为期两天的妇女技术培训课程;为社区学院提供后续咨询和现场技术援助，以支持项目战略的实施;定期举办专业主题领域的培训;促进同行指导。妇女技术项目，该项目增加了在三个国家社区学院示范点接受技术教育的妇女人数，并编制了教师培训录像《未来：培养年轻女性从事高技能、高工资职业。（自1997年以来，IWITTS已经售出了数千份。 PI拥有丰富的经验，为包括NSF ATE中心在内的社区学院系统提供顾问和技术援助。 来自旧金山城市学院弗朗西斯科的合作者是技术教育的领导者。评价将由韦尔斯利学院妇女研究中心的一名外部顾问进行。 其他合作伙伴包括马歇尔Gartenlaub博士，他作为加州全州主任领导应用竞争技术中心（CACT），并担任加州VTEA工业和技术咨询委员会主席; Scott Griffith博士，工程技术中心主任，这是一个由加州教育部资助的全州项目，位于美国河流学院，也是RoboEducators' ATE项目的PI。 推广服务处将建立一个基础设施和最佳做法知识库，以增加妇女在整个加州社区学院系统的参与。该模型是独一无二的，它将广泛的最佳实践战略与实地联系起来，并对实施经验进行反馈，并实现影响全州系统的目标。 虽然存在许多性别最佳做法战略，但在一个系统甚至多个机构中进行更广泛的推广和注入方面却做得很少。加州的社区学院系统是这类努力的一个很好的选择，因为它有机会影响许多社区学院-它是全国数量最多的社区学院-而且因为加州在其每个学院按方案收集按性别分列的数据，而且这一信息在公共数据库中只有一年的滞后时间，大大有助于评估推广服务的成功。

The California WomenTech Extension Services (CalWomenTech) is serving the California Community College (CACC) system, to increase the participation of women in technology education programs. Services are provided by the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS) in Alameda, California, in collaboration with the City College of San Francisco (CCSF). Intellectual Merit. Emphasis is placed on serving Community Colleges that are also Technology Centers in CA: 1) The California Community College System's Technology Centers; 2) The Engineering Technology Center, a statewide Project of the California Department of Education; and 3) NSF's Advanced Technology Education (ATE) Centers/Projects in California. Eight to ten Technology Centers will form CalWomenTech Leadership teams of approximately 10 members each, a mix of technology and math and science faculty, administrators, counselors and business partners.Activities and products planned for this community are: development of a CalWomenTech website to serve as both a knowledge base of best practices from the national education community and best practices from CalWomenTech Centers as they are implemented; development of template collateral recruitment materials; a 2-day WomenTech training sessions; follow-up consultation and on-site technical assistance to the community colleges to support implementation of Project strategies; periodic trainings on specialty topic areas; and facilitated peer-to-peer mentoring.The Services build on two previous grants to IWITTS: the WomenTech Project, which increased the number of women enrolled and retained in technology education in three national community college demonstration sites and a project that developed a teacher training video Futures: Preparing Young Women for High Skill,High Wage Careers. (IWITTS has sold thousands of copies the latter since 1997.) The PI has extensive experience serving as a consultant and technical assistance provider to the community college system including NSF ATE Centers. The collaborator from City College of San Francisco is a leader in technology education. Evaluation will be conducted by an external consultant from the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College. Other partners include Dr. Marshall Gartenlaub who leads the Centers of Applied Competitive Technologies (CACT) as California Statewide Director and also chairs the California VTEA Advisory on Industry and Technology and Dr. Scott Griffith, Dean of the Engineering Technology Center, a statewide Project funded by the CA Department of Education - housed in American River College - and PI of the RoboEducators' ATE Project.Broader Impacts. The Extension Service will develop an infrastructure and a knowledge base on best practices to increase the participation of women across the system of California Community Colleges. The model is unique in its connection of a broad menu of best practice strategies to the field, with a feedback loop on implementation experience, and the goal of impacting a statewide system. While many gender best practice strategies exist, little has been done to test wider replication and infusion in a system or even multiple institutions. California's community college system is a good choice for this type of effort, due to the opportunity to impact many community colleges - it has the largest number in the country - and because California collects disaggregated gender data by program in each of its colleges and this information is available on a public database with only a one-year lag time, greatly facilitating evaluation of the success of the Extension Service.