SEDAPA / SEPA Collaborative Conference 2012

科学教育药物滥用伙伴关系奖（SEDAPA）为研究科学家提供为期四年的赠款，通过与K-12教育界的正式合作伙伴关系分享他们的科学知识和专业知识。这些伙伴关系的目标是提高公众对药物滥用和成瘾生物学的认识。伙伴关系包括与科学教师的正规教育专业发展，与学生的正规课程充实，以及通过公共场所（如探索馆，博物馆和其他公共场所）的非正式教育项目。SEDAPA奖在结构上类似于更广泛的科学教育合作奖（SEPA），该奖项涉及各种主题的生物和物理科学原理（例如，癌症、传染病、环境科学等）。SEPA机制为全国数十个项目提供资金。SEDAPA计划规模要小得多，每次资助13- 15个项目。SEPA在过去十年中举办了一次非常重要的全国会议，以分享设计，管理和评估这些K-12科学伙伴关系的循证最佳实践。每年的SEPA会议吸引了大约200名与会者，包括会谈，海报会议，小组讨论和网络会议，涉及评估，资源共享，严格的实验设计，出版物开发，传播，技术整合，解决涉及人类受试者和动物的研究问题，项目管理，以及发展富有成效的K-12-高等教育伙伴关系。此应用程序的目的是使13个SEDAPA项目负责人能够与SEPA会议策划者合作，计划并参加2012年5月在马里兰州贝塞斯达举行的第一届SEPA / SEDAPA协作会议。SEDAPA项目代表将参加规划委员会，制定以SEDAPA为重点的SEDAPA-SEPA联合小组会议和演讲主题，赞助至少一名全体演讲者，组织SEDAPA海报会议，并确定和确保小组成员。每次分组会议的议程将包括以《亚太环境经济发展方案》为重点的议题。至少有一个全体会议和几个分组会议将开发，重点是与文化多样性和双语学生的工作。SEPA网站将扩大，以纳入SEDAPA会议主题。将向从事SEDAPA项目的研究生提供两项奖学金，作为研究生研究助理。 公共卫生相关性：科学教育药物滥用合作奖（SEDAPA）计划符合NIH神经科学研究蓝图关于K-12教育的报告提出的建议。这些建议包括将研究人员与教育工作者配对，以建立公众对神经科学生物医学研究的意义和过程的理解，以及加深K-12教育工作者的特定内容领域知识，并建立他们在科学课堂上传授知识的能力。拟议的赠款使SEDAPA项目负责人能够合作并参加唯一的年度会议，该会议汇集了200多名项目负责人，以分享建立和实施富有成效的伙伴关系以改善科学学习的循证最佳实践。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award (SEDAPA) provides four-year grants for research scientists to share their scientific knowledge and expertise through formal partnerships with the K-12 education community. The objective of these partnerships is to increase public understanding of the biology of drug abuse and addiction. Partnerships involve formal education professional development with science teachers, formal curricular enrichment with students, and informal education projects via public venues (such as Exploratorium, museum and other public arenas). The SEDAPA award is similar in structure and aims to the broader Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA), which addresses principles of biological and physical sciences across a variety of themes (e.g., cancer, infectious disease, environmental science, etc.). The SEPA mechanism funds dozens of projects across the country. The SEDAPA program is much smaller, funding 13- 15 projects at any one time. SEPA has developed a highly important national meeting over the past decade to share evidence-based best practices in designing, managing and evaluating these K-12 science partnerships. The annual SEPA conference draws approximately 200 attendees and includes talks, poster sessions, panel discussions and networking meetings addressing evaluation, resource sharing, rigorous experimental design, publication development, dissemination, integration of technologies, addressing issues of research involving human subjects and animals, project management, and developing productive K-12-higher education partnerships. The objective of this application is to enable the 13 SEDAPA project directors to collaborate with SEPA conference planners to plan and participate in the first SEPA / SEDAPA Collaborative Conference in Bethesda, Maryland in May, 2012. SEDAPA project representatives will participate on the planning committee, develop SEDAPA-focused and joint SEDAPA-SEPA panel sessions and presentation topics, sponsor at least one plenary speaker, organize SEDAPA poster sessions, and identify and secure panelists. The agenda will include SEDAPA-focused topics for each break-out session. At least one plenary talk and several break-out sessions will be developed to focus on working with culturally diverse and bi-lingual students. The SEPA web site will be expanded to incorporate SEDAPA conference themes. Two scholarships will be made available to graduate students working on SEDAPA projects as graduate research assistants. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award (SEDAPA) program meets recommendations advanced by the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research's Report on K-12 Education. These recommendations include pairing investigators with educators to build a public understanding of the significance and processes involved in biomedical research in the neurosciences, as well as deepening specific content area knowledge among K-12 educators and building their capacity to transfer knowledge in the science classroom. The proposed grant enables SEDAPA project directors to collaborate and participate in the only annual meeting that brings more than 200 project directors together to share evidence-based best practices in forming and implementing productive partnerships to improve science learning.