[NTA] Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) — Advancing what works in STEM education - Applications Due March 24

From: "Ericsson, Aprille J. (GSFC-5000)" <aprille.j.ericsson@xxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:24:46 +0000

Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) — Advancing what works in STEM education
http://www.aacu.org/pkal/stemleadership/index.cfm?goback=%2Egde_1805416_member_5829588431121973249#%21
STEM Leadership Development

About the Programs

PKAL Summer Leadership Institute (SLI)
The PKAL Summer Leadership Institutes are designed for both early- and 
mid-career STEM faculty engaged in leading projects aimed at transforming 
undergraduate STEM education in their classrooms, departments, and 
institutions. Each Institute exposes STEM faculty to the theories and practices 
required for them to act as agents of change in their home institutions and/or 
professional societies. Over 40 percent of Institute alumni currently hold 
positions of leadership on their home campuses. Women, minorities and persons 
with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

For more information on the Summer Leadership Institute, download our PDF 
brochure 
here<http://www.aacu.org/pkal/events/sli/documents/PKALbrochureFINAL.pdf>.

2014 Institute Dates:

  *   Institute I: July 18 - 23, 
2014<http://www.aacu.org/pkal/events/sli/index.cfm>
  *   Institute II: July 25 - 30, 
2014<http://www.aacu.org/pkal/events/sli/index.cfm>

SLI Resources:

  *   SLI Alumni - Participants and Mentors from 1996 – 
present<http://www.aacu.org/pkal/events/sli/alumni.cfm>

The PKAL Leadership Initiative (LI)
From 2004-2007, Project Kaleidoscope collaborated with a select group of 
campuses around the country in an NSF-funded leadership development initiative. 
The intent was to nurture campus-based leadership teams tackling the 
interesting and challenging work of building and sustaining robust STEM 
learning environments for undergraduate students. This leadership initiative 
(LI) wove together issues relating to setting a vision that reflects 
institutional mission and circumstances, issues relating to the politics and 
processes of change, and issues relating to personal leadership—for faculty and 
administrators. Other threads woven through this tapestry of institutional 
change captured issues relating to the what, how, why and where of student 
learning.

Leaders on PKAL LI campuses worked through a process of articulating an 
institutional vision, shaping goals and strategies to realize that vision, and 
outlining specific activities through which those strategies will be 
implemented. A collective effort within the LI community was the sharing of 
approaches to overcoming systemic barriers to institutional transformation.


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Aprille Ericsson, Ph.D.
Deputy to the Chief Technologist of the Applied Engineering and Technology 
Directorate (AETD)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
Bldg 23-Rm E153-Mail Stop 490.0
Office: 301.286.9154, Work Cell: 301.452.4540
Aprille.J.Ericsson@xxxxxxxx<mailto:Aprille.J.Ericsson@xxxxxxxx>
"Shoot for the moon and even if you miss you will still be among the stars"
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the 
hope of today and reality of tomorrow. - Robert Goddard
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[NTA] Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) — Advancing what works in STEM education - Applications Due March 24

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