Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) — Advancing what works in STEM education
Upcoming Events
Engaged STEM Learning: From Promising to Pervasive Practices
Network for Academic Renewal Conference
March 24-26, 2011
Hilton Miami Downtown
Miami, FL
Meeting website
Project Kaleidoscope, in partnership with AAC&U, announces the 2011 Network for Academic Renewal conference, Engaged STEM Learning: From Promising to Pervasive Practices. This interactive, hands-on conference will help campuses adapt, scale up, and sustain effective practices in STEM teaching and learning. The conference is designed for participants who wish to develop faculty and institutional leadership in STEM reform, broaden student participation and success in STEM fields, better assess engaged STEM learning in both the majors and general education, and connect the revitalization of STEM learning with ongoing campus work in Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP).
PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC) Regional Workshop
March 19, 2011
Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA
This PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory event will focus on getting the planning right, recognizing this time of limited financial resources for major facilities efforts is the ideal time for the analysis of current needs anddreams for spaces for learning (teaching and research) in STEM fields. The Dickinson story, and others to be explored, will outline the process of planning. As always with PKAL LSC activities, there will be time for academic participants to meet and consult with the facilitating architects. More information can be found here. If you have any questions, contact pkallsc@pkallsc.org.
To Register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LM3QVZZ
Registration Fee: $100 per person, includes materials, breaks and lunch. Participants responsible for securing housing.
Registration Deadline: February 20, 2010.
Promoting Pedagogical Approaches to Robust Learning in Undergraduate STEM Workshop
A Mountain View College Workshop in Collaboration with PKAL
February 3-5, 2011
Mountain View College
Dallas, TX
Meeting website
This workshop is the culmination of a two-year College Cost Reduction Access Act grant from the U.S. Department of Education to Mountain View College supporting a wide range of activities designed to enhance success of MVC students studying in STEM fields. Facilitators for this workshop bring deep expertise and experience in exploring contemporary, research-based STEM pedagogies and in adapting them at the local and regional level.
PKAL Sessions at AAC&U's Annual Meeting
January 26-29, 2011
Hyatt Regency Hotel
San Francisco, CA
Meeting website
Past Events
2010:
Facilitating Partnerships for STEM Pedagogy and Undergraduate Research
PKAL Atlanta Regional Fall Meeting
November 19, 2010
Brenau University
Gainesville, GA
Meeting website
For more information, click here.
Faculty Roles in Undergraduate Research Workshop
At the AAC&U Network for Academic Renewal Conference on Undergraduate Research In and Across the Disciplines
November 11, 2010
Washington Duke Inn
Durham, NC
Meeting website
Workshop participants will explore strategies for moving engaged learning to the center of faculty work. Using undergraduate research as a case study, facilitators and participants will examine expanding mainstream pedagogies to include engaged learning; re-conceptualizing the faculty role as engaged teacher-scholar; and redefining faculty workloads to include a full array of high-impact experiences.
What We Know About Planning Learning Spaces and What We Still Need to Know
PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory National Colloquium
November 5-7, 2010
Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles
Chantilly, Virginia
Meeting website
2010 PKAL/Keck National Colloquium on Leadership in Interdisciplinary (ID) STEM Learning
October 15-16, 2010
Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel
Washington, DC
Meeting website
The Keck/PKAL National Colloquium is the conclusion and celebration of a three-year project, during which campus teams have been engaged in interdisciplinary STEM education projects, ranging from interdisciplinary general education and first year experience programs to interdisciplinary courses in teacher education and majors programs in environmental science, neuroscience and human biology. The work of the campus teams has been focused on making recommendations and defining successful strategies in three key areas:
- Interdisciplinary STEM learning and assessment
- Institutional vision, cultures and practices
- Leadership and institutional change
The National Colloquium is designed to engage participants, including members of Keck/PKAL project teams, in developing a strategic leadership action agenda to advance interdisciplinary STEM learning--for all students.
Leadership Strategies: Accidental vs. Intentional
Upper Midwest PKAL Regional Gathering
October 10, 2010
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
Meeting website
Taking on leadership roles is a difficult choice for many young or mid-career faculty. Sometimes leadership responsibilities land in your lap and you become the “accidental leader.” Other people make specific choices throughout their careers in order to take on leadership roles to achieve their and their institution’s visions. At this gathering, we will discuss the challenges and rewards of leadership, explore your aptitude for leadership and share examples where effective leadership was applied.
Quantifying Quantitative Reasoning in Undergraduate Education: Alternative Strategies for the Assessment of Quantitative Reasoning
A workshop co-sponsored by Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) and the QuIRK initiative
October 8-10, 2010
Carleton College
Northfield, MN
Meeting website
Too Little Time, Too Much to Cover? Effective Teaching and Learning in Undergraduate Intro Biology Courses Workshop
Willamette Valley Biological Education Network (NSF-funded Research Collaborative Network Initiative)
October 2, 2010
Willamette University
Salem, OR
Meeting website
Teaching introductory science and mathematics courses is a challenge. Typically the students who take these courses bring a wide range of backgrounds in previous experience and future goals. In biology, in particular, the rapid growth of knowledge and profusion of subdisciplines have made it difficult to come to consensus about what concepts and skills are most essential for introductory courses. This workshop will allow participants to share their approach to these issues and will focus on learning methods that engage students in constructing their own knowledge. Importantly, this workshop is part of an ongoing effort to build a sustainable STEM pedagogical community in the Willamette Valley across diverse educators and institutions. We will engage in discussions about building robust communities of learners both within our immediate reach and across a network of institutions and about how to nurture leaders to promote best educational practices.
PKAL Summer Leadership Institute for Early Career Faculty
July 17-22, 2010
Baca Campus of Colorado College
Crestone, Colorado
Meeting website
The 2010 Summer Leadership Institute is for early-career STEM faculty engaged with transforming undergraduate STEM education in their classrooms and departments to apply for the 2010 PKAL Summer Leadership Institute. It is designed to enhance the leadership capacity and ability for early career faculty to act as agents of change within their home institutions or professional societies to reform STEM education. The Summer Institute will be held July 17 – 22, 2010 in the heart of the Rocky Mountains at the Baca Campus of Colorado College in Crestone, Colorado. It is the 11th Summer Leadership Institute.
Upper Midwest Regional PKAL STEM Leadership Workshop for Early Career Faculty
Sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation
June 11-13, 2010
St. John's University
Collegeville, Minnesota
Meeting website
A weekend leadership retreat for early career STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) faculty in the upper midwest region will be held at St. John's University on June 11-13, 2010. This workshop is designed for faculty who are thinking about leading transformative STEM learning projects in their classrooms, departments or institutions. The application deadline has been extended to May 7, 2010.
Atlanta-PKAL Spring 2010 Meeting: Exploring Pathways from Classroom Pedagogy to Undergraduate Research
April 16, 2010
Georgia Gwinnett College
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Meeting website
Both classroom pedagogy and the undergraduate research experience are essential components of a vibrant undergraduate STEM experience. The implementation of effective pedagogies in introductory courses is important for gateways into STEM disciplines at the beginning of undergraduate study. At the end of undergraduate study in a STEM discipline, well prepared students must demonstrate the ability to engage in independent inquiry and/or research. This meeting will explore ways in which in-class mentoring with pedagogies can be programmatically connected with out-of-class mentoring in undergraduate research. The presentations, workshops and discussions will be led by STEM faculty who have been exploring pathways from classroom pedagogy to undergraduate research.
Spring Interdisciplinary Leadership Roundtable
April 9-11, 2010
Mt. Washington Conference Center
Baltimore, MD
Meeting website
The meeting goals included: 1) identification of key leadership factors required to foster successful and sustainable interdisciplinary programs in different campus contexts, including barriers and ways to overcome them 2) development of institutional models of institutional leadership - organizational structures, practices, and policies - that provide the administrative, financial, physical, and cultural infrastructures needed to facilitate interdisciplinary learning over the long-term and 3) outline of a leadership handbook and contributions to the Facilitating Interdisciplinary STEM Learning National Colloquium and final project report.
Welcome Reception and Conversation with PKAL Director, Susan Elrod
March 31, 2010
American Society for Microbiology
Washington, DC
Meeting website
Sharing Our Work: A MnSCU-PKAL Showcase Featured at Realizing Student Potential Conference
February 26-27, 2010
Minneapolis Community & Technical College
Minneapolis, MN
Meeting website
Learning Outcomes and Learning Spaces
February 6, 2010
Linfield College
McMinnville, OR
Meeting website
This workshop was of value to campuses at an early stage in shaping and reshaping learning spaces for undergraduate communities of learners. During the one-day workshop, participants: explored “learning spaces that work” to help students reach learning outcomes, identified key questions and processes by which those spaces were imagined, realized and assessed, and developed short- and long-term agendas for transforming learning spaces
PKAL Sessions at AAC&U Annual Meeting
January 20-23, 2010
Grand Hyatt Hotel
Washington, DC
Meeting website
AAC&U and PKAL have joined forces to advance and amplify work on improving undergraduate education in mathematics, technology, and the various fields of science and engineering (STEM) in colleges and universities across the country. The 2010 Annual Meeting marked a milestone in the partnership between AAC&U and Project Kaleidoscope with several PKAL sessions featured at the meeting.
PKAL Workshop at 2010 NCSE National Conference
An Integrated Approach to Addressing Sustainability in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Learning Environments
January 20, 2010
Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center
Washington, DC
Meeting website
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