Intel ISEF 2012 – Educator Academy 1 Intel Confidential 11 Action Plan Template Intel ISEF Educator Academy May 2012 Bronx, New York

Intel ISEF 2012 – Educator Academy 2 High Level Goals What do you want to accomplish for your school, region or country? Look at long-term (3-5 years) and short-term goals (1-2 years) Long term goals –Increase the number of students participating in science fairs by 25% within 2 years; Increase the number of students participating in science fairs by 35% within 4 years –By year 5, have affiliated fair that will expand to include Rockland and Orange county, NY –Implement science inquiry in secondary schools by year 3, inquiry based lab site year 4 and implement inquiry in middle schools year 5 Short term goals –Start a new fair in Spring of 2013, managed by Lehman –Five high schools, student participants –Inquiry based teaching and learning PD for teachers »Plan A: request affiliation waiver from SSP for 2013 »Plan B: hold Bronx SciFest in advance of affiliated NYCSEF and request top students advance to final round of NYCSEF

Intel ISEF 2012 – Educator Academy 3 Objectives How will you know you succeeded? Bronx SciFest started Systemic curriculum changes underway –30% of the science teachers in participating schools trained in Inquiry research year 1 –Maintain training of year 1 and bring in an additional 20% in year 2 –One school will be identified as the training lab site year 4

Intel ISEF 2012 – Educator Academy 4 Action Plan – Steps to Meet Your Goals and Objectives ActionMeasure success?Who’s Responsible? $Deadline? Develop and execute Bronx SciFest students (grade 11) year 1 (event) Liesl$5kFeb 2013 Implement inquiry based teaching and learning PD for teachers 30% science teachers from participating schools (cohort 1 yr1, cohort 1 &2 yr2, cohort 2 yr3, consulting to facilitate monthly PD with cohorts yr 3) Ed/Gillian$17k yr1 $25k yr2 $8.5k yr3 $10k yr3 Mar Establish lab site for inquiry based teaching and learning (PLC) Model lab site identified and utilized by participating schools by year 4 All$10kSep 2016

Intel ISEF 2012 – Educator Academy 5 Action Plan – Steps to Meet Your Goals and Objectives ActionMeasure success?Who’s Responsible? $Deadline? Organize Bronx forum to orient community to promote Bronx SciFest Increase the number of local community organizations participating in the Bronx SciFest (event) Carmen/Media$500-1KNov 2012 Increase student participation in Bronx SciFest Increase 25% year 2, 35% year 4 Liesl/College Now$7.5kFeb 2014 Feb 2016 Implement science inquiry in middle schools 10% teacher participation (seminar, 6 3hr sessions, 5 participants) Ed/Carmen$4.5kFeb 2017 Expand participation to Rockland and Orange County, NY Student applications to Bronx SciFest (outreach) Liesl$500Feb 2017

Intel ISEF 2012 – Educator Academy 6 Intel ISEF Educator Academy Reflection - To be done… As a result of your participation in the 2012 Educator Academy, reflect on your experience –Highlight what your team felt was the key learning from the Educator Academy Practical, timely, relevant to our work –Which Shop Talks were the most beneficial for your team? Cora Beth Abel/Bill Rigney Amanda Alonzo Dr. Robert Glidden –What types of Shop Talks were missing? Motivating under represented minorities in participating in science fairs How do you level the playing field in poor school districts with a large number of under represented minorities to provide access to Intel ISEF

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