Pre-Summit Checklist

To prepare for the Summit in advance...

1. Introduce yourself: Please add a photo and introduce yourself in a brief bio, ~100 words emphasizing your PD work, in the google doc linked below. And come back now and then to take a look, as the intros get filled in, to see who else is coming that you'd like to meet!

Scroll down to find the bio/photo page, and please share your photo and bio no later than October 25. Please note that this google site is set up as not searchable by search engines, so that your contact info is shared within the participant group but not more widely on the internet.

2. Tell us about your work: We are collecting Program Profiles for the projects and programs that will be represented at the Summit. Together these represent a menu of significant PD efforts in or across STEM disciplines and reflect the expertise of those attending the Summit. Please consider which program or project you'd most like to share at the Summit, and look through the bios to see who else may be attending from that program. Then decide together how you will complete the Program Profile, and fill out our template below. This material will be used two ways: the Profiles will be included in the report from the Summit, and they will be prepared as posters for a Festival of Sharing the first evening.

Guidelines:

• Choose one project/program to share... probably your most recent work... not everything you've ever done, awesome as it may be! [Clarification: We can include more Profiles in the report than we can in the posters. So if you'd like to share a Profile for the report for more than one program that you've been involved with, please do so! And just let us know which you'd like to share as a poster.]

• One Profile per project... so please coordinate with others from your project. For example - Matt and Dave can collaborate to prepare one Profile for MAA Project NExT. Stan can do one that covers all involved in the PRODUCT project.

• Not everyone needs to share a Profile... if we have 50 poster presenters, we'll have no one to look at posters! If you'd like to share a Program Profile for the report but don't feel compelled to give a poster, let us know that too. [See clarification above]

Scroll down to the Program Profile folder for a template and an example, and please complete the Program Profile no later than October 25.

3. Reflect on your work: Choose one or more of the pre-readings on professional development and instructional change, from recently published work, and think about how your own work is situated in the broader landscapes that these pieces describe. Read ahead of time to inform your participation in the Summit discussions.

Scroll down to find links to the readings and a google drive folder of PDFs.

4. Bring with you to Boulder: Laptop or other device on which you can help contribute to crowd-sourced notes. Water bottle (it's high and dry here!). Your readiness to enjoy, learn, and meet cool folks. And feel free to bring project schwag if you want!

• Having tech trouble? Contact Devan.

• Got questions about content or purpose? Contact Sandra.

Thought-Provoking Reading

Laursen, S., Andrews, T., Stains, M., Finelli, C. J., Borrego, M., McConnell, D., Johnson, E., Foote, K., Ruedi, B., & Malcom, S. (2019). Levers for change: An assessment of progress on changing STEM instruction. Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science. [if you don't have time to read it all, we suggest the first and last chapters, and the review chapter for your field.]

Emery, N., Maher, J. M., & Ebert-May, D. (2019). Studying professional development as part of the complex ecosystem of STEM higher education. Innovative Higher Education, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-019-09475-9

Macdonald, R. H., Beane, R. J., Baer, E. M., Eddy, P. L., Emerson, N. R., Hodder, J., Iverson, E. R., McDaris, J. R., O'Connell, K., & Ormand, C. J. (2019). Accelerating change: The power of faculty change agents to promote diversity and inclusive teaching practices. Journal of Geoscience Education, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/10899995.2019.1624679 free download to first 50 users of the link...

Manduca, C. A. (2017). Surveying the landscape of professional development research: Suggestions for new perspectives in design and research. Journal of Geoscience Education, 65(4), 416–422. https://doi.org/10.5408/17-281.1

PDFs of these readings are also available in the folder below.