Rapid Planning Workshop Notes (10-26-07)

Notes from the Rapid Strategic Planning Workshop

October 26, 2007

College of Education

Workshop Facilitators:  Louise Sandmeyer and Michael Dooris

 

Group 1

Members:  Ellie Dietrich, Bob Hendrickson, Judy Leonard, Scott Metzger, Kathy Ruhl, Beverly Vandiver, and
Susan Woodhouse

1.  Translating Research to Practice to Impact

• Teaching
• Administration
• Learning
• Human Development
• Civic Engagement
• Policy

2.  Elevate the Status of Education as a Career at Penn State

3.  Increase Capacity of Educators to Apply Principles of Learning to Emerging   Technologies

• Impact of technology from a research perspective
• Using technology to broaden outreach

Group 2

Members:  Kathy Bieschke, Jim Herbert, Jonna Kulikowich, Eugenio Longoria Saenz, Sharon Patrick, Priya Sharma, Jackie Stefkovich, and Dan Thompson

I.  Living and Learning in a Diverse World (overarching/umbrella-like theme)

Underlying Strands/Themes

• Cross-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary dialogues
• Collaboration
• Technology
• Communities of Practice
• Pedagogy
• Student-Centered
1. How and what we teach
2.  What we choose to evaluate and how we evaluate it
• Research
• Worldview(s)
•  Life-long

II.  Concentric Circles

• Collaboration, Research, and Technology in the outer-most ring
• Student Centered and Pedagogy in the next ring toward the center
• Living and Learning in a Diverse World in the center

Group 3

 
Members:  Preston Green, Kathy Heid, Darla Homan, Brian Mauersberg, Karen Murphy, Lorraine Ritter, and
Rich Walter

Addressing Problems --  Developing Solutions

         Areas

                2.  Socio-Emotional --  HHD, Prevention Center

                3.  Biological Indices --  Liberal Arts, Biobehavioral health, Hershey
   
                4.  Teacher Education --  Arts and Architecture, Ag, Commonwealth, Disciplines

                5.  Understanding/Appreciation/Building on Strength of Differences (broadly defined)

                6.  Evaluating Technology --  See STEM also Public/Private Schools

Being careful not to assume automatically that technology is necessarily good.

Group 4

Members:  Craig Eozzo, Dan Grow, Richard Hazler, Esther Prins, Rayne Sperling, Jackie Taby, and Laura Zimmerman

1.  Community/Schools
 

• Working more systematically with communities to address educational issues
• Working more systematically with other PSU scholars to address education and community issues

2.  Learners --  the diversity of learning
 

• Collaborating with other scholars to help educators work effectively with marginalized, culturally diverse learners and to promote equity in education

3.  Science of the Learner
 

• Collaborative research and development with the scientific community
• Focusing on learners

4.  Reaching out to and Engaging with Diverse Communities
 

• Working more closely with extension to address pressing community issues

5.  Promoting Critical Literacies

• Critical analysis of the media
• Critical analysis of technology

 
Group 5

Members:  Dave Cochrane, Myrna Covington, Dorie Evensen, Jerry Henry, David McNaughton, Dana Mitra,
Michael G. Moore, and Deborah Smith

Constructing a Presence 

1.  Position ourselves as resources 

• Outreach --  faculty, students, alumni --  to influence policy decisions (e.g., the State Board of Education and PDE)
• Interacting more effectively
• Public Engagement

2.  Broadening Conception of Education

• Not just teacher certification
• Other areas of employment --  technology --  plan ahead

3.  Proactive

• State mandates
• How do we shape/respond  
• Looking for overlaps in what we do

4.  Connections 

• Across colleges --  undergraduate students
• Within the College --  research agendas
• Communities, schools, non-profits, to practice of all kinds
• To other populations, cultures
• How do other cultures connect to U.S. --  diversity issues
• Creative delivery systems
• To other issues – health, poverty, that influence education
• Continuing Education
• To other campuses
• Disciplinary communities

5.  Measuring outcomes of our programs 

• Alumni
• Employers

6.  Support/Recruitment $$ 

• Losing low income students
• Faculty
• Graduate students
• Grants