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Leadership in Education of Math and Science
In 25 years, the College of Education at the Georgia Institute of Technology celebrates its 15th anniversary and tops the US News and World Report rankings for schools of education. It becomes a school for all aspects of education, including leadership and innovation, particularly in STEM fields, and is regarded as the most rigorous of its kind in the country.
Georgia Tech will model a culture of leadership where it is regarded as a catalyst and leader in the K-12 public education revolution in the United States.
Georgia Tech will be internationally recognized among the best universities for preparing and educating leaders who, through their vision and innovating thinking, are solving the most challenging global issues.
Your comments relating to this Big Idea are invited and welcome. Specific ideas/suggestions about possible future approaches at Georgia Tech in this subject area are particularly important and helpful to the planning process.
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Frankly Tech's involvement in Submitted by Anonymous on Wednesday November 4, at 4:57 pm
Frankly Tech's involvement in this goal might be to "partner" with another Georgia institution as it has with Emory in BioMedical field. GT might consider being the Math/Science curricula resource and participate in actively developing a learning center for the advancement of K-12 education in the state but not embark in creating any new "Colleges". Let's try to remain a Master and not the Jack of all trades.
Why K-12 public grades in US are failing Math and Science today Submitted by Renu Kulkarni on Monday October 26, at 9:19 am
Take a read at an insightful article in today's WSJ on this very topic: http://bit.ly/3w3xSg.
What can Georgia Tech start doing today to position ourselves for the leadership position we aspire to? In future WSJ stories, we should see Georgia and GT interviewed as a 'leader, visionary, and expert' for having driven advances in K-12 STEM learning.
GT College of Learning Submitted by Anonymous on Monday October 19, at 9:17 am
I love this idea! If you need to start it by focusing on STEM, that's fine. It will help diversify the campus a bit, while staying true to our mission and purpose.
GT is now a university focused on excellence, not just engineering.
GT School of Education Submitted by WENDY NEWSTETTER on Thursday October 8, at 10:00 am
This is a brave and bold idea to consider. A first thought is NOT to call it the College of Education. There is too much (frankly negative) baggage associated with such a name. What about the College of Leadership and Learning? Also, should the focus be K-16 or just focused on post secondary learning. There are many other folks around the country addressing the K-12 arena why not distinguish ourselves and become known as innovators and leaders in the 11-24 level- high school through graduate education? This would set us apart and let us focus on what we do already but in a more rigorous fashion. Such a move would require creating tight, positive relations between high schools and the university, a model that embraces the flow from secondary schools to college. Imagine who would be involved in this adventure. First we would leverage the remaining cognitive scientists on the campus who were once a part of a vibrant community that made GT known internationally as a center for cognitive science research, a community dispersed due to political forces. The editor of the premier research journal of engineering education, Jack Lohmann, is a provost here. He is fully tied into trends throughout the world. In BME we have already started to develop a model for graduate student leadership, a year long engagement to foster servant leadership with our colleagues in ILE. This bold idea ia something that several of us have bandied about for a few years.
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