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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
Funded by the National Science
Foundation HRD-0734056

STEM Equity Pipeline Calendar


Archived Calendar Events

May 27-28, 2009

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)

May 18, 2009

Wisconsin STEM Equity Pipeline State Team Meeting
Location: Crowne Plaza-Madison, 4402 East Washington Ave., Madison
(Registration and More Information)

May 5, 2009

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)

April 21, 2009

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)

March 29-April 1, 2009

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)

March 11, 2009

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)

February 11, 2009

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)

January 28, 2009

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)

January 13, 2009

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)

December 17, 2008

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)

December 1, 2008

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)

November 13-14, 2008

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

November 12, 2008

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)

November 6-8, 2008

National Conference for Women Engineers: Women Leading a Technical Revolution
Baltimore, MD (info)

November 5, 2008

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)

November 2-5, 2008

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)

October 24, 2008

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)

October 22-23, 2008

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.

October 21, 2008

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.

October 9,16, 2008

WEBINARS - Headlines from the Field: National Experts Share Research with WEPAN
(more)

September 11-12, 2008

Career Technical Education Equity Council Annual Conference
Tulsa, OK (more)

September 5, 2008

WEBINAR - Overview of the Five-Step Process
(more)

August 4-6, 2008

Oklahoma Career and Technical Education Conference
Oklahoma City, OK (more)

August 7, 2008

Aerospace Industries Association and National Defense Industries Association Workforce Committees Meeting
Dallas, TX

July 28-30, 2008

Cisco Networking Academy Conference
Little Rock, AR (more) (Powerpoint)

July 25-29, 2008

Association for Gender Equity Leadership in Education Annual Conference
Boston, MA (more)

July 15-16, 2008

Illinois State Team Five Step Program Improvement Process Training
Heartland Community College, Normal, IL (more)

July 16, 2008

STEM Education, Girls, and the Challenges that Follow: From the Classroom to STEM Careers
Congressional Briefing, Washington, DC (more)

July 9, 2008

Cisco Networking Academy Conference
Portland, OR (more) (presentation materials)

July 2, 2008

Cisco Networking Academy Conference
Saratoga Springs, NY (more) (presentation materials)

June 16, 2008

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

June 11-12, 2008

Wisconsin State Team Meeting and Five Step Program Improvement Process Training
Madison, WI (more)

June 11, 2008

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

April 6-9, 2008

National Conference - NAPE/Women Work! National Conference, Arlington, VA.
For more information go to http://www.womenwork.org/network/conferences.htm

May 21, 2008

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

April 9, 2008

STEM Equity Pipeline Leadership Institute
Crystal City, Arlington, VA.
For registration information go to http://www.napequity.org/nape_steminstitute.htm