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May 27-28, 2009
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Oklahoma STEM Equity Pipeline Workshop covering Steps Two - Five of the Program
Improvement Process
Tulsa, May 27th or Oklahoma City, May 28th
(Registration
and More Information)
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May 18, 2009
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Wisconsin STEM Equity Pipeline State Team Meeting
Location: Crowne Plaza-Madison, 4402 East Washington Ave., Madison
(Registration
and More Information)
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May 5, 2009
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California STEM Equity Pipeline State Team Meeting
Holiday Inn Capitol, 300 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
For hotel reservations call 916-446-0100
This meeting is for ALL interested individuals in the California STEM Equity Pipeline
project.
(Registration
and More Information)
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April 21, 2009
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NGCP April Webcast: Engaging in Science; Enhancing Gender Awareness
This webcast is designed to provide an overview of the need, rationale, and research
behind embedding certain strategies into science learning opportunities. Two leaders
in gender and science, Dale McCreedy and Maryann Stimmer, will highlight several
exemplary programs and their impacts.
Dale McCreedy is Director of Gender and Family Learning Programs at The Franklin
Institute in Philadelphia. She has pioneered the development of science museum program
structures and resources to encourage girls and young women in science through collaboration
with local and national partner organizations. Maryann Stimmer is Coordinator of
Science Programs at the Educational Equity Center at the Academy for Educational
Development (EEC@AED) and Science Manager at The After-School Corporation (TASC).
She is currently leading an initiative at TASC to build comfort and confidence in
afterschool staff to deliver quality afterschool science and math experiences.
(Registration)
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March 29-April 1, 2009
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Partners
on the Path to Equity: 2009 National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity & Women
Work! Professional Development Institute
Doubletree Hotel, Arlington, VA
(STEM Equity Pipeline
Leadership Institute)
(sponsorship or
donor information)
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March 11, 2009
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WEBINAR - Step Five of the Five-Step Program Improvement Process
Mimi Lufkin, CEO, National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation
The fifth step is to implement fully tested solutions based on plans that evaluate
the success of the solution in reaching the expected performance results. This step
also addresses how to use evaluation results to plan the next steps in state and
local improvement efforts.
This webinar is a follow-up to the webinars covering Step One: Document Performance
Results and Step Two: Identify Root Causes, held in
November and December; Step Three: Select Best Solutions held in
January. Step Four: Pilot Test and Evaluate Solutions held in February.
Click this link to
view these archived webinars if you missed them.
(archived webinar)
(PowerPoint)
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February 11, 2009
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WEBINAR - Step Four of the Five-Step Program Improvement Process
Mimi Lufkin, CEO, National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation
The fourth in a series of five webinars on the Five-Step Program Improvement Process,
this presentation will focus on how to conduct a pilot test and evaluate solutions
before moving forward with full implementation. Tips for designing a program evaluation
will be reviewed including how to choose a study design, select a pilot site, select
outcome measures, identify data sources, and train pilot site staff. This webinar
will help you identify strategies for testing a solution before full implementation
whether it be in multiple classrooms, schools, institutions or statewide. Relevant
to the classroom teacher, district/college administrator or state agency staff –
this webinar will help you get started on the right path to increasing the participation
and completion of women and girls in STEM related career cluster programs.
This webinar is a follow-up to the webinars covering Step One, Step Two, and Step
Three held in November, December, and January. Click this
link to view these archived webinars if you missed them.
(archived webinar)
(PowerPoint)
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January 28, 2009
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WEBINAR - GESA Works! Generating Expectations for Student Achievement (GESA):
Essential Classroom Instructional Elements to Improve Student Achievement in STEM
Dr. Dolores A. Grayson, Developer/Author, CEO, GrayMill Consulting and the GESA
Educational Alliance
If you are concerned with achievement, success, productivity and retention in the
classroom, this webinar series is for you. Designed for K-16 professional development
staff, administrators, and STEM and CTE coordinators at the local, regional and
state levels, this webinar series is focused on classroom-based strategies that
create high expectations for all students. Strategies are related to the root causes
and other barriers identified in the 5-Step Process presented by Mimi Lufkin.
This first session, in a series of four, will give an overview of the essential
elements for increasing student achievement which explores the correlation between
perceptions, expectations, behaviors and achievement. Research-based areas of disparity
in instruction, that can prevent some students from exploring nontraditional paths
and pursuing interest in STEM-related classes and careers, will be reviewed. You
will be given immediately usable tips and tools for increasing the success of every
student in a classroom.
(archived webinar)
(PowerPoint)
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January 13, 2009
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WEBINAR - Step Three of the Five-Step Program Improvement Process
Mimi Lufkin, CEO, National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation
Once you have identified the most critical root causes to address in your improvement
effort, the next step is to identify and select the solutions that seem most promising
for testing and evaluation. This webinar will assist you in reviewing and selecting
potential solutions for testing in Step 4. This webinar is a follow-up to the webinars
covering Step One and Step Two held in November and December (see below).
(archived webinar)
(PowerPoint)
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December 17, 2008
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WEBINAR - Interactive Effects in the Theory of Planned Behavior: Examining Attitudes,
Norms, Control, and Stereotype Threat to Predict Girls' Math Performance and Intentions
Bettina Casad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
This webinar will discuss the role of stereotype threat in girls' performance in
STEM disciplines. The presentation will review research on stereotype threat and
provide evidence for why STEM educators should consider this phenomenon in their
classrooms and educational practices. Findings from a study with eighth grade Algebra
students who participated in an experiment on stereotype threat will be highlighted.
The presentation will conclude with a discussion on how educators can help eliminate
stereotype threat and its negative influence on girls' performance in STEM disciplines.
(archived webinar)
(PowerPoint)
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December 1, 2008
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WEBINAR - Identifying Root Causes: Step Two of the Five-Step Program Improvement
Process
Mimi Lufkin, CEO, NAPE
What does the research say about root causes for a lack of participation and completion
of women and girls in STEM programs and how can you conduct your own local action
research to identify the root causes in your program? These questions will be answered
and tools given to you to use immediately.
(archived webinar) (PowerPoint)
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November 13-14, 2008
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Oklahoma State Team Five Step Program Improvement Process Training
Metro Technology Center, Springlake Campus, Oklahoma City, OK For more information
contact Lou Ann Hargrave at
louhargrave@okcareertech.org
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November 12, 2008
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NGCP November Webcast: Inspiring Girls in Science and Engineering: Interactive
Program Models and Resources
Learn about two exciting programs focused on inspiring girls in science and engineering.
SciGirls offers fun science experiences for girls across the country, based on DragonFly
TV videos that showcase girls and women doing science. Engineer Your Life is a national
messaging campaign designed to reposition engineering as a rewarding career choice
for girls. Based on in-depth research and message testing, the project aims to meet
girls where they live, promoting engineering through the lens of what matters to
girls as they begin to shape their own futures. Learn about the program's free resources
and how you can use it in your work and share with others. (register)
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November 6-8, 2008
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National Conference for Women Engineers: Women Leading a Technical Revolution
Baltimore, MD (info)
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November 5, 2008
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WEBINAR - Documenting Performance Results: Step One of the Five-Step Program
Improvement Process
Mimi Lufkin, CEO, NAPE
Identifying gaps in performance at the student, program and school level and using
appropriate benchmarks is key to beginning the process of understanding the reasons
why women and girls aren't participating or completing STEM related cluster CTE
programs in your school. Learn how to use your Perkins data and other data to help
identify where interventions need to occur to increase student access and success.
(archived webinar)
(PowerPoint)
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November 2-5, 2008
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National Educators Workshop in Materials Science, Engineering and Technology
This year's theme is; It's a Materials World, Sustaining our Next Generation. Get
ready to attend another informative and educational event at the National Educators
Workshop held in Hartford, Connecticut, November 2nd - 5th 2008. This year's conference
is being hosted by The Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing. (information)
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October 24, 2008
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WEBINAR - Industry Expectations for Our Graduates: What We Can Do In Our Education
Programs Now!
It is no surprise that jobs are rapidly changing. But how does a program know about
the changes, keep pace with the changes, and respond to them? Our invited panel
will discuss the changing engineer-technician relationships and the match to current
and future desired skills. We will consider what should be in a student's individual
career plan, what is the right department strategy, what interactions should occur
between courses, what is the learning hierarchy, and what are the essential skills
in technology focused programs. Many of our students are currently employed - what
are the delivery innovations that make sense today? What does industry emphasize
for success criteria, and how can we learn from their methods? (register)
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October 22-23, 2008
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California Community College Association of Occupational Educators, San Diego,
CA
Mimi Lufkin, Project Director: Workshop on the California STEM Equity Pipeline Project.
For more information on CCCAOE go to
www.cccaoe.org. Click here
for presentation power point.
Keynote Address: Perkins IV: The Special Populations Perspective. Click
here for presentation power point.
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October 21, 2008
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sySTEM Now Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mimi Lufkin, Project Director; Barbara Bitters, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction;
and Karen Showers, Wisconsin Technical College System presented a workshop on The
Wisconsin STEM Equity Pipeline Project. For more information go to http://www.esmke.com. Click
here for presentation power point.
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October 9,16, 2008
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WEBINARS - Headlines from the Field: National Experts Share Research with WEPAN
(more)
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September 11-12, 2008
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Career Technical Education Equity Council Annual Conference
Tulsa, OK (more)
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September 5, 2008
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WEBINAR - Overview of the Five-Step Process
(more)
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August 4-6, 2008
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Oklahoma Career and Technical Education Conference
Oklahoma City, OK
(more)
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August 7, 2008
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Aerospace Industries Association and National Defense Industries Association
Workforce Committees Meeting
Dallas, TX
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July 28-30, 2008
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Cisco Networking Academy Conference
Little Rock, AR (more) (Powerpoint)
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July 25-29, 2008
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Association for Gender Equity Leadership in Education Annual Conference
Boston, MA (more)
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July 15-16, 2008
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Illinois State Team Five Step Program Improvement Process Training
Heartland Community College, Normal, IL (more)
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July 16, 2008
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STEM Education, Girls, and the Challenges that Follow: From the Classroom to
STEM Careers
Congressional Briefing, Washington, DC (more)
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July 9, 2008
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Cisco Networking Academy Conference
Portland, OR (more) (presentation
materials)
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July 2, 2008
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Cisco Networking Academy Conference
Saratoga Springs, NY (more) (presentation
materials)
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June 16, 2008
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Webinar Invitation: Integrating the Disability Perspective into the WIRED Framework
The 21st century global economy demands a more highly educated workforce equipped
with the skills to ensure career opportunities for American workers and to make
America's businesses competitive in a global market. As we seek to develop America's
talent to meet the recruitment and retention needs of the 21st century workforce,
we need to ensure that people with disabilities are included in the WIRED strategies
to create pipeline hires. The workforce system needs to promote the employment of
people with disabilities in jobs which provide career lattices and a variety of
STEM and other high-growth, high-technology sectors at the regional, state, and
local levels. This Webinar will discuss strategies to show how the "disability perspective"
can be integrated into the WIRED framework.
To Register: http://www.workforce3one.org/public/webinars/details.cfm?id=272
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June 11-12, 2008
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Wisconsin State Team Meeting and Five Step Program Improvement Process Training
Madison, WI (more)
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June 11, 2008
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NGCP June Webcast: The Gender Chip Project
How can we use media to inspire young girls to enter the science and technology
fields? In this webcast, participants will watch a short clip of "The Gender Chip Project" and then discuss ways to use the
film, accompanying online toolkits and curricula for their different stakeholders.
When presented in a range of public settings–from professional group meetings to
college peer clusters and presentations for high school students–"The Gender Chip
Project" provokes deep and wide-ranging conversations among women in the STEM fields,
and serves as a springboard to build awareness and affect change at the institutional
and policy levels.
To Register:
http://ngcproject.org/events/register.cfm?eventid=80
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April 6-9, 2008
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National Conference - NAPE/Women Work! National Conference, Arlington, VA.
For more information go to http://www.womenwork.org/network/conferences.htm
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May 21, 2008
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WEBINAR - Assessing Effectiveness: Do your program activities make a difference?
Insights learned from the Assessing Women and Men in Engineering (AWE) Project
For registration information go to https://nape.webex.com/nape/onstage/g.php?d=669982620&t=a
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April 9, 2008
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STEM Equity Pipeline Leadership Institute
Crystal City, Arlington, VA.
For registration information go to http://www.napequity.org/nape_steminstitute.htm
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