Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) — Advancing what works in STEM education
Project Kaleidoscope Partners
Over the past several years, the work of PKAL has been enriched and extended through collaborative efforts with a wide range of “near-peer” networks, recognizing that collaborations are powerful “agents of change.” What we are learning validates research on dissemination: how ideas evolve, emerge and are enhanced when like-minded colleagues pursue a common vision. This research also speaks directly to the impact of “near-peers” on influencing and persuading others to explore, adapt and assess approaches having demonstrable impact on strengthening STEM learning at all levels. The range and diversity of networks and collaborations now making a difference at the undergraduate level is remarkable; dissolving boundaries of discipline, geography, spheres of responsibility and career stage as they work to transform the undergraduate STEM learning environment in this country.
“Our goal must be to collaborate with each other. Our tasks are too great and our time is too short for any other approach.” - George E. Brown, then Chair of the House Science Committee, United States House of Representatives (1991)
Over the past twenty years, powerful collaborations have been shaped through which individual agents of change make a collective difference. The value of such networks and collaborations is on many levels— primarily serving to promote and facilitate greater adaptation of best/promising practices in transforming programs and spaces that serve student learning in ways that lead to broader transformation of STEM learning at the institutional level. Ideas and materials from each of these collaborations will be found on the PKAL website and in PKAL communications.
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