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ADVANCE GSE Program Workshop June 1, 2015 Baltimore, Maryland

Expanding on our NSF ADVANCE FORWARD to Professorship Workshop Catherine Mavriplis Rachelle Heller

FORWARD • Focus On Reaching Women for Academics, Research and Development • 1997-2015 • Started with FORWARD to Graduate School workshop in 1998 • Ratcheted up to FORWARD to Professorship in 2001 with NSF ADVANCE

FORWARD to Professorship • 1 st workshop in 2003 • 7 national workshops (2003,’04,’05,’07,’08,’10,’11) • Adapted workshop for MIT in 2005 • MIT adopts Path to Professorship annually in 2006 • Added NIH funding in 2007 • 2009: funding for Pay It FORWARD - training 10 teams “Probably the most inspiring and confidence building thing I've ever done as far as science goes.”

Pay It FORWARD • RFP for 10 teams to adopt/adapt workshop • Seed funding of $10,000 per 1 st workshop • Additional $5,000 for 2 nd • Training: essentials, design, delivery, observation, participant experience, debrief • Mentoring • Observation and discussion for subsequent implementations

Expand/Scale Up • Geographically • Ethnic/minority groups • Discipline • Numbers

Expand/Scale Up • Geographically • Ethnic/minority groups • Discipline • Numbers

Expand/Scale Up • Geographically • Ethnic/minority groups • Discipline • Numbers

Lessons Learned • The Whole is Bigger than the Sum of the Parts • So You Want to Host a Workshop • The Devil is in the Details • Watching Your Creation Mature

Sustainability • Difficult • Joining forces with stakeholders • Developing a cadre of new leaders • From Grassroots to Administration? • Publish and word of mouth

Thank you

Role Models Matter: Scaling Up Outreach 2011-2016

Project Goals • Goal 1: Co-develop and customize role model training and resources • Goal 2: Scale up role model trainings and resources • Goal 3: Promote partnerships • Goal 4: Promote sustainability within partner groups

Role Model Training Role Model Training • Effective communication with girls • Developing rapport with girls • Communicating career and academic pathways • Encouraging inquiry and scientific thinking • Effective questioning and feedback techniques

Customized Partner Resources Role Model Guides provide partners support in recruiting and retaining role models and structuring events to effectively engage role models and girls. Resources include icebreakers, effective messaging for STEM, facilitation strategies, reflection prompts, and evaluation tools.

Role Models Matter Toolkit

Research & Evaluation Results Role Models Matter hits the sweet spot between research-based content and practical, easy-to-implement strategies.

Lessons Learned : Scale Role Models Matter has expanded beyond its original, planned partners. • Partner Relationships – within group • Developing a functioning social network – between groups • Keeping it local • Time and documentation • Results

Sustainability is an orientation … not a destination. • Institutionalize practices through intentional community building • Clear and consistent communication • Customization and adaptability support implementation • Knowledge sharing • Availability of resources • Building broad participation • Empowering role models to influence change • Creating organizational networks

Thank you! jjoyce@techbridgegirls.org

Girls RISE (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering) National Network Supported by NSF GSE/EXT 2009 – 2015

Goals ฀ To address the national need to prepare the next generation of female scientists and engineers. ฀ To strengthening the professional capacity of informal science educators to engage and motivate minority girls in grades 6-12 to explore and pursue science and engineering careers.

Partners ฀ Frost Museum of Science ฀ Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) ฀ SECME, Inc. ฀ Network of eleven science museums ฀ Research Advisors: input into research section of website, national institute keynote speakers

Objectives ฀ Develop infrastructure for a national network of science centers and museums. ฀ Develop linkages between organizations with the common purpose of increasing the pipeline female scientists and engineers.

Objectives ฀ Build capacity – and sustainability – through ongoing training and support for informal science education professionals. 28

Objectives ฀ Facilitate the translation of gender and diversity research into practice . ฀ Provide online access to current research, materials and tools that address gender equity and diversity in STEM. 29

Why the Informal Science Community? ฀ Parallel mission: Shared culture of broadening interest and engagement in science. ฀ Pedagogy compatible with how girls learn: non- competitive, active learning, often in small groups, encourages dialog about science, promotes self efficacy that “ I can do science. ” “ No one ever flunked a museum. ” — Frank Oppenheimer

Overall Project Goal: Capacity Building for Museums National Institute for Regional Hub Museums E. South New Mid E. W. North N. South S. W. Mtn. N. S. Central England Atlanti North Central Atlantic South South Pacific Pacific L’ville Sci Explora Conn Sci Ctr c Central St Louis Sci MD Sci Central Atlantic Cal Ctr Ctr Ctr NYSCI COSI Sci-Port MiaSci Academ OMSI LA y Research Engineering Cultural Knowledge building: Pipeline Competency translating research Identify and build Assess into practice, community organizational stimulating new resources to recruit, climate with research serve and retain respect to race, ethnicity, gender girls Regional Workshops to Build Capacity of Museum Practitioners Presented by Regional Hub Trainers (Extension Agents) to Informal Science Educators in their Regions

Activities/Strategies

National PD Institutes ฀ Conducted annually to build capacity of regional hubs and build community. ฀ Each event introduced new tools for hubs to use at regional workshops. ฀ Incorporated expertise of research advisors.

Regional Workshops ฀ Regional hub trainers conducted 76 replication workshops. ฀ Ninety-nine travel awards were awarded to ameliorate financial barriers to attendance at regional workshops.

Regional Workshops ฀ Developed relationships between regional hubs and with museum practitioners in their region to build sustainability. ฀ Regional hub trainers and museum practitioners adapt content to make it their own – and build sustainability.

Mini-grants ฀ 58 competitive mini-grants awarded to initiate or expand gender-related programming. ฀ 4,815 girls served (4,016 girls were under 18, 799 girls were 18 or older). An additional 725 family members attended mini-grant funded events. ฀ Mini-grant funded events involved 363 mentors, 173 museum staff, and 144 other educators.

Girls RISEnet.org ฀ Has 1,213 registered users, representing 1,053 unique entities/organizations. ฀ Received 22,366 total visits, with an average 3:28 minutes per visit. ฀ Includes research articles, showcases of model programs, over 200 hands-on engineering and science activities, online workshop resources. ฀ Will remain open for public access through 2020. 37

Collaborations to build sustainability ฀ National Engineers Week Foundation ฀ AAUW ฀ SciGirls ฀ GSE/EXT projects, such as NGCP ฀ Smithsonian Affiliate Museums ฀ Engineering Society Chapters ฀ NISEnet (Nanoscale Informal Science Ed Network) 38

Contributions to the knowledge base Girl-Friendly Exhibit Quest: An Assessment and Discussion Tool Equity in Informal Science Learning Environments: An International Needs Assessment Girls, Equity and STEM in Informal Learning Settings: A Review of Literature PDF versions of documents are available to download at: www.girlsrisenet.org/showcase/detail/89 39

Summative Evaluation ฀ Overall, found that the Girls RISEnet model successfully engaged informal science educators and built organizational capacity of science museums nationwide to deliver girl-friendly STEM programming. ฀ In addition, the evaluation documented that the project developed solid regional networks focused on engaging girls in STEM.

Regional Hub Network Survey ฀ Found that all Girls RISEnet Regional Hubs engaged in some level of collaboration with other organizations in pursuit of increasing girls’ access to STEM. ฀ Shows that nine of the regional hubs developed a moderate level of collaboration that, in addition to capacity building efforts through the program, involves coordinated activities with other organizations .

฀ Six regional hubs established high level collaborative efforts with other organizations that involved integrated activities which involved a deeper level of collaboration (e.g. identifying an initiative that involved applying for grants/funding together). ฀ Eight regional hubs were identified by partners as “girl - friendly STEM experts.” ฀ Five regional hubs were identified by partners as “cultural competency experts.”