21st Century Digital Learning Environments (Unable to Attend / Working Meeting on Pontiac Promise)

FI³T Project PIs Meeting

March 16., 2009

5:00 – 7:00 pm

SOE Conference Room 251

Fairlane Center South (FCS)

University of Michigan-Dearborn

AGENDA

1.0 Welcome

2.0 Winter Activities

2.1 Student Attendance

2.2 Parent Involvement

2.3 Corporate Partners

2.4 Winter PI Meetings

3.0 Summer Camp

3.1 Schedule

3.2 The Henry Ford Museum visit

4.0 Second Cohort Preparation

5.0 Others

6.0 Adjourn

FI³T Project PIs Meeting

(Revised Minutes)

March 16, 2009

5:00 – 7:00 pm

SOE Conference Room 251

Fairlane Center South (FCS)

University of Michigan-Dearborn

AGENDA

1.0 Welcome

Attendees: Margret Hoft, Mesut Duran, Brahim Medjahed, Elsayed Orady, Caroline Beyer, Shedrick Ward, Sharon Holloway, Silas Willams, Ermelda Polk, Mark Jenness

2.0 Winter Activities

2.1 Student Attendance

· Joshua Brandly & Antonio Dudet are not returning. Ebony Ellis’s case is not clear. SAMPI will prepare an exit interview form and conduct interviews with not returning students.

2.2 Parent Involvement (differed)

2.3 Corporate Partners (differed)

2.4 Winter PI Meetings

· Scheduled for April 20 from 5-7 in SOE Conference Room 251.

3.0 Summer Camp

3.1 Schedule

· The first week (4 days) of the Summer camp is tentatively scheduled for the week of June 15 and the second week of the camp will be held in the last week of August (week of 24, 4 days).

· Dr. Duran will start a VLT discussion on this issue to finalize decisions for this matter. Students will be informed about the summer camp schedule by March 28 workshop.

3.2 Structure

· The structure of the summer camp will be discussed in detail at the upcoming PI meeting but it will involve a whole-group trip to the Henry Ford Museum, 2 field trips to partnering companies, and informational sessions about inquiry-based project design and preparation for Design activities.

4.0 Second Cohort Preparation

4.1 Pontiac Schools

· Due to plan for mass teacher layoffs at the Pontiac Schools at the end of the school year, the second cohort of the program will involve DPS only.

4.2 DPS

· DPS will identify 16 new teachers and financially support them to participate in a series of IT/STEM workshops that will be offered during the weeks of June 22 & 29 (tentative).

· Ideally, new teachers will be recruited from the current teachers’ schools to develop better connection and collaboration between the current teachers and the new teachers.

· Teacher Info page will be revised accordingly and posted on the VLT for questions and comments and later will be distributed to the prospective new teachers.

· Each STEM area will offer 2 half-day (4 hour each) workshop to the new coming teachers in team teaching format—Current content faculty and K-12 teacher teaching their related workshop together (knowledge transfer from current lead teachers to new teachers in training)

· At the end of the workshop series, in collaboration with current teachers, the project will identify and invite 4-5 new teachers to participate in the second cohort.

5.0 Others

· Cohort one summary package for Year 1 should be prepared and distributed to DPS administrators

· Interviews with students, faculty, and teachers for the Year 1 activities will be conducted by the Evaluation team.

· Student work displays (out put) in the school and on campus are needed by the Evaluation team.

6.0 Adjourn