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ADVANCE GSE Program Workshop June 1, 2015 Baltimore, Maryland

Expanding on our NSF ADVANCE FORWARD to Professorship Workshop

Catherine Mavriplis Rachelle Heller

FORWARD

• Focus On Reaching Women for

Academics, Research and Development

• 1997-2015
• Started with FORWARD to

Graduate School workshop in 1998

• Ratcheted up to FORWARD to

Professorship in 2001 with NSF ADVANCE

FORWARD to Professorship

• 1st workshop in 2003
• 7 national workshops (2003,’04,’05,’07,’08,’10,’11)
• Adapted workshop for MIT in 2005
• MIT adopts Path to Professorship annually in 2006
• Added NIH funding in 2007
• 2009: funding for Pay It FORWARD - training 10 teams

“Probably the most inspiring and confidence building thing I've ever done as far as science goes.”

Pay It FORWARD

• RFP for 10 teams to adopt/adapt workshop
• Seed funding of $10,000 per 1st workshop
• Additional $5,000 for 2nd
• Training: essentials, design, delivery, observation,

participant experience, debrief

• Mentoring
• Observation and discussion for subsequent

implementations

Expand/Scale Up

• Geographically
• Ethnic/minority groups
• Discipline
• Numbers

Expand/Scale Up

• Geographically
• Ethnic/minority groups
• Discipline
• Numbers

Expand/Scale Up

• Geographically
• Ethnic/minority groups
• Discipline
• Numbers

Lessons Learned

• The Whole is Bigger than the Sum of the Parts
• So You Want to Host a Workshop
• The Devil is in the Details
• Watching Your Creation Mature

Sustainability

• Difficult
• Joining forces with stakeholders
• Developing a cadre of new leaders
• From Grassroots to Administration?
• Publish and word of mouth

Thank you

Role Models Matter: Scaling Up Outreach 2011-2016

• Goal 1: Co-develop and

customize role model training and resources

• Goal 2: Scale up role

model trainings and resources

• Goal 3: Promote

partnerships

• Goal 4: Promote

sustainability within partner groups

Project Goals

Role Model Training

Role Model Training

• Effective communication with

girls

• Developing rapport with girls
• Communicating career and

academic pathways

• Encouraging inquiry and

scientific thinking

• Effective questioning and

feedback techniques

Customized Partner Resources

Role Model Guides provide partners support in recruiting and retaining role models and structuring events to effectively engage role models and girls. Resources include icebreakers, effective messaging for STEM, facilitation strategies, reflection prompts, and evaluation tools.

Role Models Matter Toolkit

Research & Evaluation Results

Role Models Matter hits the sweet spot between research-based content and practical, easy-to-implement strategies.

Lessons Learned: Scale

Role Models Matter has expanded beyond its original, planned partners.

• Partner Relationships – within

group

• Developing a functioning social

network – between groups

• Keeping it local
• Time and documentation
• Results

• Institutionalize practices through intentional

community building

• Clear and consistent communication
• Customization and adaptability support

implementation

• Knowledge sharing
• Availability of resources
• Building broad participation
• Empowering role models to influence change
• Creating organizational networks

Sustainability is an orientation

… not a destination.

Thank you!

jjoyce@techbridgegirls.org

Girls RISE (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering) National Network

Supported by NSF GSE/EXT 2009 – 2015

฀ To address the national need to prepare the next generation of female scientists and engineers. ฀ To strengthening the professional capacity of informal science educators to engage and motivate minority girls in grades 6-12 to explore and pursue science and engineering careers.

Goals

฀ Frost Museum of Science ฀ Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) ฀ SECME, Inc. ฀ Network of eleven science museums ฀ Research Advisors: input into research section of website, national institute keynote speakers

Partners

Objectives

฀ Develop infrastructure for a national network of science centers and museums. ฀ Develop linkages between organizations with the common purpose of increasing the pipeline female scientists and engineers.

Objectives

฀ Build capacity – and sustainability – through

• ngoing training and support for informal science

education professionals.

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Objectives

฀ Facilitate the translation of gender and diversity research into practice. ฀ Provide online access to current research, materials and tools that address gender equity and diversity in STEM.

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Why the Informal Science Community?

฀ Parallel mission: Shared culture of broadening interest and engagement in science. ฀ Pedagogy compatible with how girls learn: non- competitive, active learning, often in small groups, encourages dialog about science, promotes self efficacy that “I can do science.” “No one ever flunked a museum.” —Frank Oppenheimer

National Institute for Regional Hub Museums Regional Workshops to Build Capacity of Museum Practitioners

Presented by Regional Hub Trainers (Extension Agents) to Informal Science Educators in their Regions

• E. South

Central

L’ville Sci Ctr

New England

Conn Sci Ctr

Mid Atlanti c

NYSCI

E. North Central

COSI

• W. North

Central

St Louis Sci Ctr

• N. South

Atlantic

MD Sci Ctr

W. South Central

Sci-Port LA

Mtn.

Explora

S. Pacific

Cal Academ y

S. South Atlantic

MiaSci

N. Pacific

OMSI

Cultural Competency

Assess

• rganizational

climate with respect to race, ethnicity, gender

Engineering Pipeline

Identify and build community resources to recruit, serve and retain girls

Research

Knowledge building: translating research into practice, stimulating new research

Overall Project Goal: Capacity Building for Museums

Activities/Strategies

National PD Institutes

฀ Conducted annually to build capacity of regional hubs and build community. ฀ Each event introduced new tools for hubs to use at regional workshops. ฀ Incorporated expertise of research advisors.

Regional Workshops

฀ Regional hub trainers conducted 76 replication workshops. ฀ Ninety-nine travel awards were awarded to ameliorate financial barriers to attendance at regional workshops.

Regional Workshops

฀ Developed relationships between regional hubs and with museum practitioners in their region to build sustainability. ฀ Regional hub trainers and museum practitioners adapt content to make it their own – and build sustainability.

฀ 58 competitive mini-grants awarded to initiate or expand gender-related programming. ฀ 4,815 girls served (4,016 girls were under 18, 799 girls were 18 or older). An additional 725 family members attended mini-grant funded events. ฀ Mini-grant funded events involved 363 mentors, 173 museum staff, and 144 other educators.

Mini-grants

Girls RISEnet.org

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฀ Has 1,213 registered users, representing 1,053 unique entities/organizations. ฀ Received 22,366 total visits, with an average 3:28 minutes per visit. ฀ Includes research articles, showcases of model programs, over 200 hands-on engineering and science activities, online workshop resources. ฀ Will remain open for public access through 2020.

฀ National Engineers Week Foundation ฀ AAUW ฀ SciGirls ฀ GSE/EXT projects, such as NGCP ฀ Smithsonian Affiliate Museums ฀ Engineering Society Chapters ฀ NISEnet (Nanoscale Informal Science Ed Network)

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Collaborations to build sustainability

Girl-Friendly Exhibit Quest: An Assessment and Discussion Tool Equity in Informal Science Learning Environments: An International Needs Assessment Girls, Equity and STEM in Informal Learning Settings: A Review of Literature PDF versions of documents are available to download at: www.girlsrisenet.org/showcase/detail/89

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Contributions to the knowledge base

Summative Evaluation

฀Overall, found that the Girls RISEnet model successfully engaged informal science educators and built

• rganizational capacity of science museums nationwide

to deliver girl-friendly STEM programming. ฀In addition, the evaluation documented that the project developed solid regional networks focused on engaging girls in STEM.

Regional Hub Network Survey

฀ Found that all Girls RISEnet Regional Hubs engaged in some level of collaboration with other

• rganizations in pursuit of increasing girls’ access

to STEM. ฀ Shows that nine of the regional hubs developed a moderate level of collaboration that, in addition to capacity building efforts through the program, involves coordinated activities with other

• rganizations.

฀ Six regional hubs established high level collaborative efforts with other organizations that involved integrated activities which involved a deeper level of collaboration (e.g. identifying an initiative that involved applying for grants/funding together). ฀ Eight regional hubs were identified by partners as “girl-friendly STEM experts.” ฀ Five regional hubs were identified by partners as “cultural competency experts.”

Regional hub participant learning ratings

Girls RISEnet Six Learning Topics Greatly Increased Somewhat Increased Did not increase Learning the current research/literature with respect to gender equity in STEM. 59% 41% 0% Learning strategies that effectively engage girls in STEM career pathways. 56% 41% 4% Learning strategies that help reduce barriers associated with gender, socioeconomic status, and/or multicultural dynamics as it applies to engaging girls in STEM career pathways. 56% 33% 11% Understanding how to design informal learning environments that appeal to girls. 37% 63% 0% Understanding how to engage female engineers and/or college level mentors in girl-friendly STEM activities and/or engineering competitions. 41% 44% 15% Building your understanding of the utility of evaluation in developing effective girl-friendly programming/exhibits. 30% 52% 18%

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1.

What is the role of stakeholders in sustainability?

2.

Name 2–3 challenges faced in scaling up projects.

3.

Name 2–3 successful strategies used to engage stakeholders in continuing to implement project objectives. What makes them successful?

4.

What are potential future forms or formats (including technology) that could impact sustainability and scalability

• f projects?