Environment, Energy, and Sustainability Science: An Institute for 21st Century Teacher Leaders

这个MSP启动合作伙伴关系，由韦斯勒大学领导，与布林莫尔学院，特拉华州县社区学院，费城大学，林肯大学和哈弗福德镇学区合作，正在开发大费城环境，能源和可持续发展科学（ES）2教师领导研究所。其他合作伙伴包括西切斯特大学社会和经济研究中心、特拉华州山谷工业资源中心、能源协调机构、美国环保署第3区创新办公室、国家科学和公民参与中心及其SENCER计划、宾夕法尼亚州校园契约、费城社区发展高等教育网络、万花筒项目、大费城可持续商业网络、以及21世纪STEM教育合作伙伴关系。该项目建立在过去五年中由大费城数学科学合作伙伴关系中的许多合作伙伴开发的关系基础上，汇集了来自多个机构（“大型大学”模式）的教师和资源，以开发一个连贯，创新和内容丰富的环境，能源和可持续发展科学多年课程，该研究所导致新开发的硕士学位。参加该研究所的教师（A）提高他们在对人类环境可持续性至关重要的领域的STEM内容知识，（B）提高他们在教学中对基于项目/服务的学习和科学教学方法的使用，（C）与活跃在新兴绿色经济中的当地企业、非营利组织或政府组织一起参与解决现实世界的可持续性问题，以及（D）发展重要的领导技能，作为学校的变革推动者，以提高学生对STEM教育的兴趣，学习和参与。该研究所旨在作为一个区域中心，连接教育，商业，非营利和政府组织，以加强该地区的STEM教育和劳动力发展管道，同时支持环境可持续性和公民身份的积极社会变革。该项目的“大型大学”和“研究所作为区域连接枢纽”办法是强有力的合作模式，随着各组织和系统适应全球经济的新挑战和向可持续性过渡的需要，这些模式可在各国广泛适用。

This MSP-Start Partnership, led by Widener University, in partnership with Bryn Mawr College, Delaware County Community College, Philadelphia University, Lincoln University, and Haverford Township School District, is developing the Greater Philadelphia Environment, Energy, and Sustainability Science (ES)2 Teacher Leader Institute. Additional partners include the Center for Social and Economic Research at West Chester University, Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center, Energy Coordinating Agency, US EPA Region 3 Office of Innovation, National Center for Science and Civic Engagement and its SENCER program, Pennsylvania Campus Compact, Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development, Project Kaleidoscope, Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, and the 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education. Building on a base of relationships developed over the past five years by many partners in the Math Science Partnership of Greater Philadelphia, the project brings together faculty and resources from multiple institutions (a "Mega-University" model) to develop a coherent, innovative, and content-rich, multi-year curriculum in environment, energy, and sustainability science for an Institute that leads to a newly developed Master's degree. Teachers participating in the Institute (A) improve their STEM content knowledge in areas critical to human environmental sustainability, (B) improve their use of project based/service learning and scientific teaching pedagogies in their teaching, (C) engage in real-world sustainability problem solving in an externship with a local business, non-profit or government organization that is active in the newly emerging green economy, and (D) develop important leadership skills as change agents in their schools to improve student interest, learning, and engagement in STEM education. The Institute aims to serve as a regional hub, connecting educational, business, non-profit and government organizations to strengthen the STEM education and workforce development pipelines in the region and simultaneously support positive social change toward environmental sustainability and citizenship. The project's "Mega-University" and "Institute as a regional connector-hub" approaches are powerful models of collaboration that could have widespread and significant national applicability as organizations and systems adjust to the new challenges of our global economy and to the needed transition to sustainability.