QUALITY EDUCATION FOR
MINORITIES (QEM) NETWORK
Math and Science
Partnership (MSP) Program Technical Assistance Workshop
for Minority-serving Institutions and
their K-12 Partners
Embassy Suites Baltimore at BWI
Airport ¥ 1300 Concourse Drive ¥ Linthicum, MD
May
20-21, 2010
Agenda
Workshop
Purpose: To assist participating teams in further developing their ideas
for Start and Institute Partnership proposals they are planning to submit to
the National Science Foundation (NSF)Õs MSP Program by the July 8, 2010 Program
Deadline.
Thursday, May 20
Noon/PM
12:00 Registration
Friendship Ballroom
12:30 Opening
Luncheon and Plenary Session Terrace–2nd
Floor
Welcome, Introductions,
and Review of Workshop Purpose and Agenda
Shirley
McBay, President, QEM Network
Elizabeth
VanderPutten, Program Director
Division
of Undergraduate Education, Math Science Partnership (DUE/MSP)
Division
of Research on Learning (DRL)/Education and Human Resources (EHR)
2:00 Plenary
Session: The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Program Friendship Ballroom
-
Overview of the MSP Program
-
Review of the MSP Program Solicitation
-
Institute Partnerships – Teacher Institutes for the 21st
Century and
MSP-Start
Partnerships
Kathleen
Bergin, Program Director, Math and Science Partnership, DUE/EHR (.htm)
Hannah
Sevian, Program Director, Math and Science Partnership, DUE/EHR
2:45 Break
3:00 Plenary
Session: Merit Review and Competitive Proposals
-
NSF Merit Review Criteria
-
Strengths and Weaknesses of Funded/Unfunded Institute Partnership and
MSP-Start
Partnership Proposals
James
Hamos, Program Director, Math and Science Partnership, DUE/EHR
Daphne Rainey, Program Director, Math
and Science Partnership, DUE/EHR
4:30 Concurrent
Sessions: Feedback on ParticipantsÕ Concept Papers and
Project Summaries (See Session Assignment Sheet)
Sessions
I and II: Focus on ParticipantsÕ
MSP-Institute Concept Papers
Sessions
III – VI: Focus on ParticipantsÕ MSP-Start Project
Summaries
6:00 Working
Dinner Terrace–2nd
Floor
Table
Discussions with NSF Program Directors, QEM Consultants, and
QEM
Senior Staff of the Key Points from the Afternoon Sessions
7:00 Adjournment
Friday, May 20
AM
8:30 Plenary
Session: Friendship
Ballroom
Addressing
the Research Component of an MSP Proposal
Patrick
Sean Smith, Senior Research Associate (.htm)
Horizon
Research, Inc.
Introduction
of Speaker: Monica Mitchell, QEM Consultant
9:15 Concurrent
Mock Panel Reviews of a Redacted Institute Partnership Proposal
(See
Panel Assignment Sheet)
10:00 Break
10:15 Plenary
Session: Evaluation of MSP Institute and Start
Partnerships Friendship
Ballroom
- The Role of Evaluation
-
Logic Model
Patrick
Sean Smith, QEM Consultant
11:00 Concurrent
Sessions: Discussion of Revised Project Summaries and Concept Papers
Focus: Project Design and Evaluation (See Session
Assignment Sheet)
NSF Program Directors
and QEM Consultants/Senior Staff – Co-Facilitators
PM
12:15 Working Lunch:
Presentation on an MSP Start Partnership Grant Terrace–2nd
Floor
Shaik
Jeelani, Director of the Center for Advanced Materials, (.htm)
Vice
President for Research and Sponsored Programs, and
MSP-Start
Principal Investigator, Tuskegee University
Introduction
of Speaker: Monica Mitchell, QEM Consultant
1:30 Plenary
Session: Project Sustainability and Institutional Change Friendship Ballroom
James Hamos, Program
Director, MSP
2:15 Break
2:30 Continuation
of Concurrent Sessions: Further Refinement of Project
Summaries
and Concept Papers (See
Session Assignment Sheet)
Focus: Project Management, Sustainability, and
Institutional Change
NSF
Program Directors and QEM Consultants/Senior Staff – Co-Facilitators
3:45 Plenary
Session: Budget Preparation,
including Sub-awards Friendship
Ballroom
Costello
Brown, QEM Consultant
(.htm)
4:15 Plenary
Session: Next Steps and
Reflections
Moderator:
Shirley McBay, QEM Network
5:00 Adjournment