Philadelphia Regional Noyce Partnership

该项目正在大费城地区建设能力，以加强STEM教师队伍的各个方面。目前持有Noyce资助的七所地区学院和大学，布林莫尔学院，哈弗福德学院，德雷塞尔大学，拉萨尔大学，宾夕法尼亚大学，圣约瑟夫大学和天普大学，正在与费城教育基金合作创建费城地区Noyce （PRN）伙伴关系。参与合作的机构代表了一系列广泛的Noyce项目，影响着本科生、转行者、学士后学生和硕士教师。有了这些Noyce项目，合作伙伴关系就有了成功开发一个模型所必需的临界质量，该模型展示了同一地理区域的多个Noyce项目如何协同工作，以增加各自项目提供的价值。这个项目的智力价值在于理解什么样的主动性导致了健壮和富有成效的协同作用。该项目有可能产生广泛的全国影响，可以作为全国其他STEM教师培训联盟的典范。PRN伙伴关系正在开发该地区STEM教师准备计划的资产测绘和需求评估，正在将这些数据用于为期一年的规划过程，并正在试点测试各种举措，这些举措将合作伙伴的Noyce教育工作者聚集在一起，代表STEM教师连续的各个阶段，以便在实践社区中相互学习。伙伴关系的发展受到社会网络分析理论的启发，该理论认为，当以前没有联系的个人和组织之间建立信任关系时，会产生积极和意想不到的协同效应，社会资本会增加。

The project is building the capacity in the greater Philadelphia area to strengthen all aspects of the STEM teacher pipeline. Seven regional colleges and universities that currently hold Noyce grants, Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, Drexel University, La Salle University, University of Pennsylvania, Saint Joseph's University and Temple University, are partnering with the Philadelphia Education Fund to create the Philadelphia Regional Noyce (PRN) Partnership. The institutions in the partnership represent a broad array of Noyce programs impacting undergraduates, career-changers, post-baccalaureate students, and Master Teachers. With this range of Noyce programs, the partnership has the critical mass necessary to successfully develop a model demonstrating how multiple Noyce programs in the same geographical region work together to add value to what their individual programs offer. The intellectual merit of this project lies in understanding what initiatives lead to robust and productive synergies. The project has the potential for broad national impact as a model that could be adapted by other STEM teacher preparation consortia around the country. The PRN Partnership is developing Asset Mapping and Needs Assessment of the region's STEM teacher preparation programs, is using these data in a year-long planning process, and is pilot testing a variety of initiatives that bring together the partners' Noyce educators, representing all stages of the STEM teacher continuum, to learn from one another in a community of practice.The development of the partnership is inspired by theories of social network analysis which suggest that positive and unexpected synergies will occur and social capital will increase when trusted relationships are built between previously unconnected individuals and organizations.