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National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation
P.O. Box 369, Cochranville, PA 19330
Phone: 610-593-8038 Fax: 610-593-7283
Email: NAPE@napequity.org
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Promising Practices

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4-H Science in Urban Communities Promising Practices Guide4-HThis Guide contains promising practices, case studies, and suggested resources for expanding the quality and quantity of out-of-school science programming.
Doing What WorksUSDOEThis site contains research based best practices in multi media platforms.
Forging New Pathways: Promising Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Students in Career and Technical Programs That Are Nontraditional for Their GenderNAPE, NWLC, ACTE, and NASDCTEc This 2005 report describes promising practices for improving students' access to CTE programs that are nontraditional for their gender.
Guide to Promising Practices in Informal Information Technology Education for GirlsNational Center for Women in Information Technology and Girl Scouts of the USABased on a survey of 156 programs this report identifies eight practices that contribute most to success in science and IT.
How Can Unbiased Software Facilitate Girls' Interest in IT?NCWITTo avoid gendered outcomes, NCWIT recommends that teachers carefully select and use software that appeals to girls as well as boys. A sample tool for guiding this selection is provided on the back of this sheet.
Media and Informal Science LearningInstitute for Learning InnovationThis NSF-funded website features the best practices in innovative, media-based science education programs and concepts. 
National Inventors Hall of Fame School attracting national media attention for focus on creativitySTEMscapeAlison White, grant communications coordinator for the Ohio STEM Learning Network's Akron Hub, says that attention is a welcome acknowledgement that the school must be doing something right.
New Formulas for America's Workforce: Girls in Science and Engineering National Science Foundation (NSF)This book synthesizes findings from 224 NSF-funded projects, which studied differences in the ways girls and boys learn and react to science and engineering in the classroom and identifies ways to make science and engineering more appealing as subjects and career to all students, but especially to girls and to women.
Programs-in-a-Box and Promising Practices CatalogNational Center for Women and Information Technology Turn-key “how to” kits for university computer science departments.
Proven Practices for Recruiting Women to STEM Careers in ATE Programs.Edmonds Community College, Mel Cossette.This site contains research about career interest and survey of practices in STEM.
Reaching New Heights: Promising Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Students in Career and Technical Education Programs That Are Nontraditional for Their GenderNAPE, NWLC, ACTE, and NASDCTEcThis 2007 Report describes promising practices for improving students' access to CTE Programs that are nontraditional for their gender.
Success Strategies for Enganging Girls and Women in STEMITEST Learning Resource Center This webcast explores strategies and best practices for the recruitment and retention of girls and women in STEM.
The New Look ProjectIllinois Center for Specialized Professional SupportThe Flexible Program Improvement Model encourages self-study, research-based strategy implementation.
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