"To Infinity and Beyond"
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| Photo taken by Laurie Kish |
Taking my Action Research Project to a whole new level...
My Action Research project and Literature Review focused on the impact that corporate sponsorship and the integration of technology had on High School student’s motivation to learn mathematics and their ability to apply what they had learned. Working in the corporate Medical Device world and having a son in High school I realized that perhaps I might be able to connect the two and make a difference in the life of the students as well as show Corporate America that giving time and dollars to a local school might help them to secure future Engineers, Biomathematicians and Scientist.
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| Riverside High School |
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| bioMerieux Inc. The Odyssey Bus National Tour - Lab in Motion http://microsite.biomerieux-usa.com/odyssey/ |
My plan for publishing my Action Research project involves presenting it at two national conferences, one focused at Human Resource professionals and employee educators within corporations and the other focused on school educators. If I could get my message out to these two audiences then perhaps they could find mutual benefits in building lasting partnership where the sky could be the limit. My project focused only on mathematics but I see this application in all areas of high school education: science, engineering, economics, and beyond.
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| http://www.astd.org/ |
I selected The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) which is an association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals. Members work in many industries and organizations with a goal to link learning and performance to individual and organizational results. They have a voice on critical public policy issues and legislation concerning advancements in workplace education so why not explore the possibility of them assisting or partnering with school educators on policies that can benefit both of them like tax credits for corporations that help educate students? They have an annual international meeting that attracts thousands of corporations from many industries. This is a perfect setting to introduce the concept and advantages of corporate sponsorship with local community schools and the benefits to them.
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| Screen shot from http://www.iste.org/conference.aspx |
The improvements to educational outcome and our future labor force are so closely tied together that it becomes very important to select a venue that targets both key audiences, K-12 and undergraduate institutions as well as corporate sponsors. So I selected The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) for my K-12 and Undergraduate target audience because they strongly believe that corporations are major stakeholders in education and that we need to collaborate with them to successfully transforming education. Each year at their international conferences they have nearly 20,000 educational technology professionals and corporate representatives from 60 countries that come together over five days to learn, collaborate, and share information all of which leads to unlocking students’ potential. I feel this is a perfect opportunity to share my vision and results with the K-12 and undergraduate educators to encourage them to allow corporations to sponsor their classrooms.
- Publishing/Leadership Thinking Outload Blog #1
- Publishing/Leadership Thinking Outload Blog #2 http://childrenrfuture.blogspot.com/2011/05/wk3-publishingleadership-project-post-2.html
- Publishing/Leadership Project
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