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The Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at UBC: A Dean's Perspective
The Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at UBC: A Dean's Perspective By Dean Simon Peacock, describes his perspective on the lessons learned as Dean helping to lead this effort. The Carl Wieman Science ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
Resource Type: White Paper
Program Components: Professional Development:Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development

Communities of Transformation and their work scaling STEM reform
Communities of Transformation and their work scaling STEM reform A. Kezar and S. Gehrke, Pullias Center for Higher Education. A mixed-methods study of four STEM communities (BioQUEST, PKAL, POGIL and SENCER) to ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories, Change Leaders
Resource Type: White Paper
Program Components: Professional Development, Institutional Systems

Improving postsecondary STEM education: Strategies for successful collaboration and brokering across disciplinary paradigms
× Improving postsecondary STEM education: Strategies for successful collaboration and brokering across disciplinary paradigms This paper describes five strategies which STEM faculty can use to build and ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
Resource Type: White Paper, Conference Paper
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Interdepartmental Collaboration, Degree Program Development, Outreach:Policy Change, Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning

ACHIEVING SYSTEMIC CHANGE: A SOURCEBOOK FOR ADVANCING AND FUNDING UNDERGRADUATE STEM EDUCATION
Catherine L. Fry, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
This sourcebook is intended as a useful resource for allthose who have a stake in creating STEM solutions forUS society. It addresses the rationale for investing insystemic change throughout higher education, identifiescritical areas for investment, and provides pointers to keyreports and current STEM education reform efforts.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders, Costs and Benefits, Equity and Inclusion, Faculty Evaluation, Guiding Theories, Policy
Resource Type: White Paper, Report, Booklet
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Supporting Students:Student Engagement, Institutional Systems:Degree Program Development, Professional Development:Diversity/Inclusion, Supporting Students:Bridge Program

Promising practices in Undergraduate STEM Education
Promising practices in Undergraduate STEM Education Proposes set of promising practices for lower division courses and programs of undergraduate STEM, such as learning outcomes, group work, and learning ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories
Resource Type: White Paper
Program Components: Professional Development, Curriculum Development

An overview of national STEM Education Initiatives that Impact Undergraduate STEM Education
An overview of national STEM Education Initiatives that Impact Undergraduate STEM Education Google Doc from Kacy Redd, Noah Finkelstein, Linda Slakey and Emily Miller providing a list of all networks and programs ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment
Resource Type: White Paper
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Course Evaluation, Accessibility

Getting ideas into action: Building networked improvement communities in education
Getting ideas into action: Building networked improvement communities in education In this essay by Anthony Bryk, Louis Gomez, and Alicia Grunow, the authors argue that the social organization of the research ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories
Resource Type: White Paper
Program Components: Professional Development, Outreach:Outreach to K12 Teachers and Students