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Collaborating to get to Scale : A Faculty Knowledge Exchange for Developmental Mathematics

Collaborating to get to Scale : A Faculty Knowledge Exchange for Developmental Mathematics Tom Carey’s presentation at WA Rethinking Pre-college Math Meeting Mar 4 2011 Why a Faculty KEN – working back from the “business model” What Knowledge Exchange activities will work for faculty:

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Collaborating to get to Scale : A Faculty Knowledge Exchange for Developmental Mathematics

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  1. Collaborating to get to Scale: A Faculty Knowledge • Exchange for Developmental Mathematics • Tom Carey’s presentation at • WA Rethinking Pre-college Math Meeting Mar 4 2011 • Why a Faculty KEN – working back from the “business model” • What Knowledge Exchange activities will work for faculty: • Content – Connection – Contribution - Collaboration • How can we enable these Knowledge Exchange activities • Roadmap and open questions • Thanks to sponsors…Next steps for you, me , us ☺

  2. Working back from the “business model” for scale-up • Who cares about scale-up: • Faculty, as… • catalysts for student learning • innovators • professionals • effective, efficient, energizing, gentle(?) • College execs, system heads • sustainable model + value proposition to justify it • 1-3 course releases per year per department • Foundation and government leaders • one time investment leveraged into ongoing impact • We worked from the sustainable model backwards to the faculty activities & then • to the one-time investments to develop the infrastructure, test the model, etc.

  3. 1. Walkthrough: faculty knowledge exchange activities that are effective, efficient and energizing (E3) Share, adapt & re-use exemplary practices/resources Let’s look at examples currently occurring in our Knowledge Exchanges…

  4. 1E3Knowledge Exchange activities include: Discuss shared issues & explore potential solutions Share, adapt & re-use exemplary practices/resources

  5. An opportunity to discuss active learning With a group Of colleagues (designed to for both FT and PT faculty)

  6. Workbook is available for download – now being re-used at dept level as well as by our group.

  7. The page with activities for each course topic is also available online

  8. E3Knowledge Exchange activities include: Share, adapt & re-use exemplary practices/resources Discuss shared issues & explore potential solutions College Project Contribute ideas & expertise for projects at other colleges

  9. An example from the 2010 pilot study in LA, where a City College team used the comments from their colleagues to shape a successful redesign. …

  10. E3 Knowledge Exchange activities include: Share, adapt & re-use exemplary practices/resources Discuss shared issues & explore potential solutions College Project San Diego City Mesa Southwestern Contribute ideas & expertise for projects at other colleges Collaborate to create & adapt new practices/resources

  11. Three San Diego colleges collaborated to create hands-on learning activities to use in classes.

  12. 6 colleges are collaborating to customize local versions of “Algebra for Statistics”.

  13. Content Connection College Project San Diego City Mesa Southwestern Contribution Collaboration

  14. 1. What would bring you value in each of these activities? Useful Knowledge include: Content Connection College Project San Diego City Mesa Southwestern Contribution Collaboration

  15. How do we support E3 knowledge exchange activities? Walkthrough (cont’d): Support for faculty activities. Departmental resource persons [Faculty Colleagues] Online collaboration and exchange tools (+ Research program support team) Occasional F2F & Confer meetings & workshops • your thoughts and questions…

  16. Why a regional focus? • manageable size for starting teams (and seeding new ones) • aligns with state-wide initiatives and political will • contributes to faculty ownership and responsibility • enables periodic F2F interactions (especially at start-up of teams) • clarifies context of exemplary practices and resources

  17. Linking regional Knowledge Exchanges for a Knowledge Exchange Network Los Angeles region Knowledge Exchange for Dev Math MAA MathDL Dev Math Collection San Diego region Knowledge Exchange for Dev Math SF Bay area Knowledge Exchange for Dev Math Developmental Math Knowledge Exchange Network Ontario (Canada) College Math Association Knowledge Exchange tinyurl.com/sakedevmath, lakedevmath, bakedevmath, OCMAMathKEN

  18. Roadmap and Research Questions Q: How can we enable gentle progress from Incremental to Transformative change? Q: How do the roles of knowledge & evidence change with contextual distance? Q: How can we develop and support faculty roles in KEN? Q: How can we develop a stronger identity for teaching that is more “Professional, Innovative, Research-informed, Collaborative and Scholarly” (Teaching PIRCS) Connection Collaboration Content Contribution

  19. We are grateful for the support of… Your questions, suggestions, next steps… tcarey@projects.sdsu.edu

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