2007 ANNUAL REPORT - cosmos - Bowling Green State University

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4 education leaders across the region can apply for funds to carry out these two annual NWO activities and other new NWO collaborative activities. We anticipate that this change in funding structure will enhance the accountability of scope of work completion and will facilitate a regional approach to NWO funding opportunities. The Center has continued to work hard to gain and maintain the respect and collaboration from our partner schools, including four high-needs districts (Fremont City, Fostoria Community, Lima City, and Toledo Public) as well as smaller districts and county educational service centers (ESCs) including Bowling Green City, Maumee City, Perrysburg, Springfield Local, Hancock County ESC, and Wood County ESC, among others. During 2007, we established the COSMOS Collaborative Council (CCC) bringing together our school partners (teachers, principals, curriculum directors, and superintendents) once a month for regular planning and dissemination opportunities. We believe the CCC has become an integral component of the Center and has helped us ensure true school-university-community partnership arrangements. NWO has a clear and specific focus on providing K-16+ professional development in science and mathematics, both in content and pedagogy, and developing new knowledge in the teaching and learning of science and mathematics. As a regional center, we aim to provide services appropriate and meaningful for all individuals and groups interested in joining our professional community. Often, non “high-needs” districts or individual teachers get left out of state-level professional development plans, yet our regional needs assessment indicated a strong desire and need for high-quality professional development in science and mathematics across the 19 county area, especially in rural communities. As such, NWO hosts meetings and events that are open to all pre-service and in-service teachers, higher education faculty, and other community partners across the region. In total, 897 pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and higher education faculty actively participated in at least one Center activity during the 2006-07 academic year. 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
We are equally committed to identifying high-needs partners (defined by low student pass rates on Ohio achievement tests, high poverty level, or lower percentages of employed highly qualified teachers within the district) that desire high-quality, rigorous, and sustained professional development. Our approach then is two-tiered: to provide high-quality professional development opportunities for interested individuals and smaller non-high-needs school groups, and also to provide systemic professional development opportunities to a few targeted high-needs groups through both NWO activities and through our affiliated sponsored projects (COSMOS DREAMS, NWO TEAMS, REAL, Improving Teacher Quality Grants, etc.) that will result in changes at the institutional level (school, district, college, university). Our diverse efforts, described in detail below, fall into four categories: • In-service professional development • Pre-service professional development • Faculty development and collaborative research • Affiliated projects These efforts help us attain the vision, mission, and goals of the Center. The goals for 2008 are slightly restructured, placing more emphasis on recruitment into STEM and STEM education disciplines and in conducting collaborative research in science and mathematics education than in years past. This alteration is possible because the professional development and collaborative alliance goals require much less time and fewer human resources now that they are well underway and beyond the initial time and resource-intensive development phase. 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 5
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Appendix N: 2006-07 REAL Recruiting
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Appendix R: Executive Board Minutes
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References 71 Appendix 72
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Back to top Original NWO Goals The
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Observations: Horizon’s Classroom
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Appendix A Higher Education Faculty
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