Quality
Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
Robert S. Noyce
Teacher Scholarship Program Workshop
The
Palomar Hotel ¥ 2121 P Street, NW ¥ Washington, DC
Friday-Saturday,
January 29-30, 2010
AGENDA
Friday, January 29
AM
8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast Phillips
Ballroom
9:00 -Welcome, Introductions, Review of Session
Purpose,
Meeting Packet, and Agenda
Shirley
McBay, President, QEM Network
9:15 -Overview of NSF and the EHR Directorate
-Overview
of the Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
Deborah Allen and Hannah Sevian, Program Directors
Division
of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Directorate
for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
National
Science Foundation (NSF)
10:00 NSFÕs Merit Review Criteria and Proposal Review Process
Costello Brown, Senior
Associate, QEM Network, and
Former
NSF Division Director
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Overview of Current Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Awards
J. Arthur Jones, Senior Associate, QEM Network
11:30 Best Practices: Academic Requirements and Evidence of Exemplary STEM
Teacher Preparation Programs
Lisa Gonsalves, Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
College
of Education, University of Massachusetts Boston
John King, Assistant Professor, Mathematics Education, School of Education
Clark
Atlanta University
Joseph Meyinsse,
Interim Dean of the Graduate School
Southern
University at Baton Rouge
PM
12:30 Working Lunch: Table Discussion of Morning Plenary Session Topics
1:30 Teacher Education Student Recruitment and
Retention Strategies-Attracting
More Junior and Senior STEM Majors to K-12 Teaching
Vinetta Jones, Professor, School of Education
Howard
University, and QEM Consultant
2:00 Concurrent
Sessions: Teams Discuss their Proposal Summaries with NSF Program Officers,
QEM Consultants, Participating Noyce PIs, and QEM Senior Staff
(see
Assignment Sheet)
3:30 Break
3:45 Plenary
Session: The Student Scholarship
Selection Process Phillips
Ballroom
John King, Clark Atlanta University
4:15 Administration of a Noyce Scholarship
Program Award
Lisa
Gonsalves, University
of Massachusetts Boston
Joseph Meyinsse, Southern University at Baton Rouge
5:00 Adjournment
Dinner (On Your Own)
Overnight Assignment: Revision of Project
Summaries
Saturday, January
30
AM
8:30 Continental Breakfast Phillips Ballroom
9:00 Concurrent
Sessions: Teams Discuss their Revised Proposal Summaries with NSF
Program
Officers, QEM Consultants, Participating Noyce PIs, and QEM Senior Staff
10:00 Plenary Session:
On-Campus Collaborations Between Phillips
Ballroom
STEM and Education Faculty
Costello
Brown, QEM Network, Moderator
10:45 Break
11:00 Establishing and Nurturing Partnerships
Between Institutions of
Higher
Education and the School Districts They Serve
Andrea
Van Duzor, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Chicago
State University
11:30 Institutional Infrastructure Support Needed
for the Production of
Well-prepared
STEM Teachers
Walter Hill, Dean, College of Agricultural, Environmental and Natural Sciences
Tuskegee
University
1:00 Plenary
Session: Assessment and Evaluation
Plan for a Noyce Scholarship Project
Josephine Davis, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Fort
Valley State University, and QEM Consultant
1:30 Sustainability of a Noyce Project:
Opportunities and Barriers
Walter Hill, Tuskegee University
Andrea
Van Duzor, Chicago State University
2:00 Closing Comments and Discussion of Next
Steps
NSF
Program Officers, Noyce PIs, QEM Consultants, and QEM Senior Staff
2:30 Plenary
Session: Use of NSFÕs FastLane
for Submitting Proposals
Evelyn Baisey-Thomas (Part 2), Computer and Information Specialist
Office
of Information and Resource Management, NSF (retired) and
QEM
Consultant
4:30 Adjournment