QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES (QEM) NETWORK

Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Program One-Day Workshop

For Tribal Colleges and Universities and their K-12 Partners

Millennium Harvest House • 1345 28^th Street • Boulder, CO

Sunday, March 12, 2006

AGENDA

Workshop Purpose

To assist participating teams in further developing their ideas for MSP Institute Partnerships: Teacher Institutes for the 21^st Century within the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Program.

AM

8:30 Opening Plenary Session

Welcome, Introductions, and Review of Workshop Purpose and Agenda

Jody Chase, Program Director, Tribal Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (TCUP), Division of Human Resource Development (HRD)

Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)

National Science Foundation

Shirley McBay, President, QEM Network

9:00 Plenary Session: Overview of the MSP Program

Elizabeth VanderPutten, Program Director, Mathematics and Science Partnerships

Division of Research, Evaluation and Communication (REC)

Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)

National Science Foundation

9:30 Discussion/Study of MSP

Program Solicitation and Related Handouts

J. Arthur Jones, Senior Associate, QEM Network

10:00 Break

10:15 Plenary Session: Evaluation

Joy Frechtling, Vice President, Westat

11:15 Study/Analysis of a Successful MSP Proposal

Elizabeth VanderPutten, Program Director, Mathematics and Science Partnerships

PM

12:15 Lunch

1:15 Other Funding Opportunities within the Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate at NSF

Jody Chase, Program Director, National Science Foundation

2:15 Break

2:30 Plenary Session: General Questions and Answers

3:30 Other Resources/Reference Materials

4:00 Adjournment