2007 ANNUAL REPORT - cosmos - Bowling Green State University

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36 NWO ORC Collaboration The Center has continued to be involved in promoting the Ohio Resource Center through Center programs aimed at fostering research-based best practices and also through the university courses and professional development offered by the Center faculty. • In science and mathematics methods classes, students have assignments that involve the use of lesson plans from the ORC. Similarly, in some of the mathematics classes for early and middle childhood majors, students must search for a lesson plan on a given topic and explain how they would adapt the lesson to the grade level they would like to teach. The physics MAT classes also frequently reference ORC. This amounts to 18 separate courses on campus. • Many of the MAT scholarship students and NWO teachers use the ORC lesson plans in their classrooms and presented the results of the lesson implementation to the NWO partners at the Blast-Off (beginning of the year), Symposium (mid-year), or Summit (end of the year) events. • The NWO website has a search feature that allows teachers visiting the site to search ORC for high-quality lessons, assessments, and other resources. • When providing guidance for local school districts, NWO recommends the professional development, lesson, and assessment resources that populate the ORC website. • In all affiliated projects, NWO/COSMOS staff use ORC recommended lessons and curricula. 2 0 0 7 N W O C e n t e r o f E xcellence • A n n u a l R e p o r t
Issues, Problems, and Anticipated Solutions • The biggest issue to date is still the collaborative efforts between UT and BGSU. With the departure of Dr. Emilio Duran, 2004-2006 SciMaTEC Director, we have taken many steps backwards once again. The search to hire a new SciMaTEC Director was not successful, and we do not know who is serving in this role at this time. The communication must improve in order to rebuild trust and subsequent partnerships. We will search both within the <strong>University</strong> of Toledo and across the region to find interested faculty willing and capable of leading and teaming NWO activities. The NWO Regional Grants to Partners Program reflects our efforts to find new partners and to ensure accountability for Center funds used to support their work. • As per the memorandum of agreement, additional activities are being jointly sponsored each year by the three groups (BGSU, OCC, and UT). More center funding is being earmarked for NWO (vs. institution) activities. • By encouraging STEM and STEM education faculty to collaborate on Center grants and activities, we decrease the apparent diversity and sheer number of proposals, when in effect the submissions are stronger, more complimentary, and more diverse. To address this issue, we will work with OBR, ODE, and other funding agencies to raise awareness regarding the nature of such Center collaborations. We also want to be sure that participation as a Center of Excellence does not limit the number of funded proposals that would be attained in the region without the Center’s existence. So our focus will be to submit multiple, but well-coordinated and highly collaborative, NWO proposals. • Although a sign of our success, the rapid growth of the NWO Center has resulted in a need to develop an investment strategy to build Center capacity to create, support, implement, and evaluate newly funded and future Center initiatives. We will work with the NWO Executive Board and within each higher education institution to craft this investment plan. • There is a great deal of inequity of infrastructure among institutions. As described earlier, BGSU has a solid infrastructure in place, yet UT/SciMaTEC resources have been greatly reduced. There is a small operating budget in place. Yet there is no secretarial or GA support, and space is limited. Moreover, OCC, LC, and UF do not have infrastructures for this sort of work. We will continue to discuss ideas to build the infrastructure needed to support the region. 2 0 0 7 N W O Ce n t e r o f E xcellence • A n n u a l R e p o r t 37
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Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents 2 NWO Mission 2 N
Page 5 and 6: NWO 2007 Annual Report ~ An Introdu
Page 7 and 8: We are equally committed to identif
Page 9 and 10: NWO Activities and Accomplishments
Page 11 and 12: mathematics and a new interdiscipli
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Page 15 and 16: Research in Science and Mathematics
Page 17 and 18: Learning Sciences PhD Program BGSU
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Page 21 and 22: evaluation reports are available up
Page 23 and 24: In order to determine progress towa
Page 25 and 26: In sum, we are both proud of our FY
Page 27 and 28: The tables below show amounts spent
Page 29 and 30: COSMOS Collaborative Council (CCC)
Page 31 and 32: NWO Projected Goals and Activities
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Appendix R: Executive Board Minutes
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Appendix S: NWO Executive Board Byl
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References 71 Appendix 72
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Back to top Original NWO Goals The
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students. The also loved foldables.
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