Reflecting upon 30 Years of STEM Partnerships between Industry, University, and Public Schools: Past Lessons, Current Successes, and Future Dreams

Abstract

The importance of partnerships is critical in educational arenas, but information on how partnerships form with the involvement of corporations, districts, and universities working in harmony is limited in the current literature. The teacher preparation program described in this paper is a “built-to-last” partnership model with over 650 teachers prepared to be teacher-leaders in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The authors provide a history of the program’s development, the sustainability of the program over time, the content of the various components of the partnership, and the evolution of the program, including its current status.

Ameliorating the Special Education Teacher Crisis: Systems Thinking and Innovative Approaches

“…• Offer scholarships, in addition to or instead of TEACH grants, to recruit for high-need schools. Universities have coordinated scholarships across organizations into a single database to recruit teachers at the university aligned with getting the district leaders to provide "paid" student teaching internships while others have harnessed foundation and Title 1 funding to provide richer financial support for teachers (Dieker et al, 2021;Scott et al, 2006).…”

“…A master's cohort in these same sites are using Title 1, scholarship, and endowment funds to ensure SETs move up the pay scale, with efforts to create a strong cohort of leaders in these schools. From the over 100 teacher leaders funded to date, over 75 remained in the same schools and placements 5 years later (Dieker et al, 2021). Offer apprenticeships and ensure the new employees have the most enticing jobs (Kolding et al, 2018), or encourage paid internships.…”

Agenda de investigación sobre la Historia de las universidades en las revistas de historia de la educación en Web of Science (2020-2022)

“…Otros estudios se han enfocado en la enseñanza de las ciencias, la tecnología, la ingeniería y las matemáticas (STEM) en la Universidad y su vinculación con la industria; en particular, el estudio sobre las asociaciones de formación docente y su vinculación con la sociedad en una perspectiva histórica (Dieker, Butler, Ortiz, & Gao, 2021). También se ha abordado desde una perspectiva histórica la relación entre la vinculación con el medio y las universidades, entendiéndolas como un espacio que se abre lentamente a raíz de los procesos políticos, sociales y económicos, como el caso de la European University (Barnett & Guzmán, 2021).…”