Building Partnerships: Doing Together What We Cannot Do Alone Consortium for Excellence in Teacher Education STEM Conference, May 2012 Presented by Bonnie Hallam Northeast Regional Noyce Conference October, 2012

Who are the Partners?  Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities across the Country. What are the Partners trying to do?  Work together to recruit, prepare and retain excellent STEM teachers at the secondary level.

We think working together will be more effective than working alone!

 1/2 of the schools participating in the pre- conference survey indicated that they felt they had strong professional expertise  1/3 of the institutions reported organizational culture/support structures as a strength  1/3 felt they could bring successful strategies on teacher retention to the table

Talk Talk! Talk! Talk !

Developing a National Network

Summer Workshops focused on Math and Science Pedagogy

Developing collaborative induction support strategies

Social Network Mapping

 Develop a Mission and Vision statement for the National Network and a new name.  Establish an on-line presence  Expand the social network begun at the conference  Brown University Summer Math Program  Working Group on Educational Policy  Future CETE STEM Conferences

It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone. Unknown