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Successes in Increasing Nontraditional Participation and Completion – Local Strategies and State Policies
May 12, 2011NACTEI
Courtney Reed Jenkins
National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation
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Overview
• What would you like as a take-away?
• STEM Equity Pipeline Project – Overview
• Local Strategies
• State Policies
• Please join us!
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What the STEM Equity Pipeline Project is doing to recruit and retain women and girls in STEM
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STEM Equity Pipeline Project: Goals
• Build the capacity of the formal education community
• Institutionalize the implemented strategies by connecting the outcomes to existing accountability systems
• Broaden the commitment to gender equity in STEM education
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STEM Equity Pipeline Project: Intellectual Specialization
• Accountability – Using Data to Drive Program Improvement– The Five Step Process
• Professional Development - Implementing Effective Extension Services in the Formal Education Community
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The Five Step
Process
STEP 1Document
Performance Results
STEP 5ImplementSolutions
STEP 4Pilot Test and
Evaluate Best Solutions
STEP 3Choose
Best Solutions
STEP 2Identify
Root Causes
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STEM Equity Pipeline Project: Methods
• Professional Development
• Teacher Training
• Consulting and Technical Assistance
• Virtual Web-based Professional Learning Community (www.stemequitypipeline.org)
• Best Practices Handbook
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State Teams
• 11 states– California– Missouri– Illinois– Oklahoma– Wisconsin– Iowa – Minnesota– New Hampshire – Ohio– Texas– Georgia
• Secondary/Postsecondary collaboration
• Led by the agencies that administer career and technical education in the state
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Virtual Learning Communitywww.stemequitypipeline.org
• Public portal for the STEM equity pipeline community – Listserv– Links– Articles, Resources, Reports and Research– Calendar of Events in STEM – Webcasts, Webinars, Video, Podcasts, Power Points– Online courses and Tutorials– Performance Data on Women & Girls in STEM– Professional Development Needs Assessment– Project Evaluation Instruments and Surveys – Suggestion Box– More!
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How can I be involved?
• Visit the Virtual Learning Community– Register for the listserv– Complete the professional development
needs assessment– Access resources and best practices
• Participate in a webinar/webcast/online course
• Host a 5-step training
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Local strategies
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STEP 1Document
Performance Results
STEP 5ImplementSolutions
STEP 4Pilot Test and
Evaluate Best Solutions
STEP 3Choose
Best Solutions
STEP 2Identify
Root Causes
The Five Step
Process
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Data analysis
• Look at the entire STEM pipeline: where are the leaks?
• Compare between “academic” and CTE STEM programs for participation and performance
• Benchmark with other programs in the state, country
• Sex-segregated? Nontraditional?
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STEP 1Document
Performance Results
STEP 5ImplementSolutions
STEP 4Pilot Test and
Evaluate Best Solutions
STEP 3Choose
Best Solutions
STEP 2Identify
Root Causes
The Five Step
Process
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Why Search for Root Causes?
Keep from fixating on the
“silver bullet” strategy• Identify the conditions or factors that
cause or permit a performance gap to occur
• Direct cause (i.e. instructional practice)
• Indirect cause (i.e. teacher training)
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Resources available at www.stemequitypipeline.org
• Survey Instruments
• How to Conduct Interviews
• How to Conduct Focus Groups
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STEP 1Document
Performance Results
STEP 5ImplementSolutions
STEP 4Pilot Test and
Evaluate Best Solutions
STEP 3Choose
Best Solutions
STEP 2Identify
Root Causes
The Five Step
Process
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)
– Education: Academic/Technical Proficiency
– Successful programs: • Rosie’s Girls, Northern New England
Tradeswomen http://www.vtworksforwomen.org/programs_for_girls/rosies_girls.html
• Technical Opportunities Program, Chicago Women in the Trades http://www.chicagowomenintrades.org/artman/publish/article_206.shtml
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Proficiency
• Introduction to 3-D Spatial Visualization, Sheryl Sorby, http://www.delmarlearning.com
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)
– Education: Access to and participation in math, science, and technology
– Successful programs:• Minot Public Schools, Minot, North Dakota,
Programs and Practices That Work, 2005 Award Winner http://pages.minot.k12.nd.us/votech/File/fair.htm#2009
• Summer Camps http://www.stemequitypipeline.org/Resources/OnlineResources/Programs/default.aspx
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Access
• Computer programming for middle school girls, http://www.rapunsel.org
• Tech team: manuals to coordinate teams on computer programming, http://www.knowitall.org/techteam
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)
– Education: School/Classroom climate – Successful programs:
• Checking Your School for Sexism http://02b47b1.netsolhost.com/foundation/e107_images/custom/(10h)%20CheckingforSexism.pdf
• Destination Success, MAVCChttp://www.mavcc.org/
• Gender Equity Item Bank, Midwest Equity Assistance Center http://www.meac.org/Resources/pdf/assessment.pdf
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)
– Education: Support Services
– Successful programs: • Informal support groups (HCC)• Support groups (Tools for Tomorrow, Madison
Area Technical College; IA State – Women in Science and Engineering)
• Child care• Tools, books, resources
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)
– Career information: Materials and Practices– Examples of programs:
– Michigan’s Breaking Traditions Award– Cisco’s Gender Initiative marketing materials– Changing College Freshmen’s Attitudes toward Women
in STEM (NTAW2, p. 38)– U of O IT Program (NFAW2, p. 44, and NTAW, p. 39)– WOMENTECH at Community Colleges (NFAW, p. 195):
» Community College of Rhode Island» College of Alameda
– NASA
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Career info, cont.
• Guidelines for Identifying Bias in Curriculum and Materials, Safe Schools Coalition http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/guidelinesonbiasscreen.pdf
• Careers for Men in Early Childhood Education, National Association for the Education of Young Children http://sales.naeyc.org/Itemdetail.aspx?Stock_No=594&Category=CBrochure&SText=
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Career info, cont.
• American Careers
• Am I a Fair Counselor, Destination Success, MAVCC http://02b47b1.netsolhost.com/foundation/e107_images/custom/(10i)%20FairCounselor.pdf
• Could This Be Your Life, New Jersey Nontraditional Career, Resource Center, Rutgers Univ.
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Career info, cont.• • Gender Equity Tip Sheets http://
02b47b1.netsolhost.com/foundation/page.php?14
• Bias Evaluation Instrument, Nova Scotia Department of Education http://www.ednet.ns.ca/pdfdocs/studentsvcs/bias_evaluation/bias_eval_ss.pdf
• Are You Man Enough to Be a Nurse, Oregon Center for Nursing http://www.oregoncenterfornursing.org/documents/poster_67k.jpg
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)
– Career Information: Early Intervention
– Successful programs:• Girls Redesigning and Excelling in Advanced
Technology, http://www.miamisci.org/great/index.html
• Go-Girl: Gaining Options – girls investigate real life, http://www.smartgirl.org
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)
– Career information: Characteristics of an occupation
– Successful programs:• Beyond the Beakers: Smart Advice on Entering
Graduate Programs in the Science and Engineering, http://www.bcm.edu/smart/?PMID=2993
• Think again…girls can! Videos, http://www.girlscan.org
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)
– Family: Family Characteristics and Engagement
– Successful programs: • Talented Girls Bright Futures, Publication by
Project Lead the Way http://www.pltw.org/inforeq.shtml
• American Careers Parent Magazine, Nontraditional Careers Edition, http://www.napequity.org/page.php?18
• Tech Savvy Girls Video and Resource Guide, http://www.aauw.org/research/all.cfm
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Family, cont.
• FIRST (Female Involvement in Real Science Technology), http://www.chabotspace.org/visit/programs/first.asp
• Explanatoids, http://www.explanatoids.com
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)
– Internal/Individual: Self-efficacy
– Successful programs: • Carol Dweck, Mindset• National Science Partnership for Girl Scouts and
Science Museums, http://www.fi.edu/tfi/programs/nsp.html
• Improving Girls’ Self-Efficacy with Virtual Peers, http://www.create.usu.edu/mathgirls.html
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)
– Internal/Individual: Attribution
– Successful programs:• Gaining Confidence in Math: Intelligent Tutors with
Custom Design for Girls, http://k12.usc.edu/AW/index.html
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)
– Internal/Individual: Stereotype threat
– Successful programs: • Girls Creating Games,
http://programservices.etr.org/gcgweb/• Imagination Place!,
http://www.edc.org/CCT/imagination_place/• Challenging gender stereotypes with computer-
based social models, http://ritl.fsu.edu/_Website/projectsPals.asp
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Stereotype threat, cont.
• Engineering, Science, and Math Increase Job Aspirations (Es Mija), http://www.idra.org
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)
– Societal issues: Media (positive)– Successful programs:
• Men Teach http://www.menteach.org/• Cisco Gender Initiative Strategies, I am an
Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc. http://gender.ciscolearning.org/Strategies/Strategies_by_Type/U.S._High_Schools/Index.html
• SciGirls, http://www.pbskids.org/dragonflytv• NASA Space Club• Her Own Words, videos and posters
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Positive media
• Transforming the Role of Women and Girls in Science and Engineering (CD set) and Audio Portraits of Women in STEM, http://www.womeninscience.org
• You can be Anything! A music video, http://www.umbc.edu/be-anything
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)
– Societal issues: Peers
– Successful programs:• After-school science plus,
http://edequity.org/afterschool_materials.php• Scheduling
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)
– Societal issues: Role Models/Mentoring
– Successful programs:– IWITTS– Community-based Mentoring (NFAW, p. 49)– RISE: Research Internship in Science and Engineering
(NFAW, p. 21)– MentorNet: http://www.mentornet.net/– IA State Women in Science and Engineering (Carol
Heaverlo, Outreach Coordinator, (515) 294-5883 [email protected])
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Role models, cont.
• Girls E-Mentoring in Science, Engineering and Technology GEM-SET, Univ. of IL, Chicago http://www.uic.edu/orgs/gem-set/
• IGNITE, Seattle Public School System http://www.ignite-us.org/
• Nontraditional Student Mentoring Program, Northeast Community College http://www.napequity.org/page.php?16
• Telementoring, http://www.edc.org/CCT/telementoring/index2.html
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Identify Root Causes (Step 2)Select Best Solutions (Step 3)– Societal issues: Collaboration– Successful programs:
• Girl Scouts• Operation SMART, Girls, Inc.
http://www.girlsinc.org/about/programs/operation-smart.html• National Girls Collaborative Project, Program Directory
http://www.pugetsoundcenter.org/ngcp/• Expanding Your Horizons
http://www.expandingyourhorizons.org/
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Resources
• STEM Equity Pipeline Projecthttp://www.stemequitypipeline.org/
• National Science Foundation, New Formulashttp://www.nsf.gov/ehr/hrd/Newformulas/newformulas.jsp
• WEPAN Knowledge Centerhttp://www.wepanknowledgecenter.org/home
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State policies
• Require LEAs to participate in 5-step/data retreat when they do not meet nontrad participation and completion requirements– KS– MO
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State policies, cont.
• Align discretionary grants with the 5-step/data retreat process– IA ($100,000-$150,000/yr investment)
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State policies, cont.
• Host voluntary annual 5-step/data retreat for LEAs– IL– MN– WI– TX– CA
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