Convocation on Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing Regions, States, and Citie

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Convocation on Rising Above the Gathering Storm
Energizing and Employing Regions, States, and
Cities for a Brighter Economic Future

• Convene leadership of industry, government,
  research, and education community from all 50
  states and the federal government.
  
• Share knowledge and encourage leadership of
  initiatives at the state and local level to
  strengthen US competitiveness.
  
• Discuss current national proposals to respond to
  the nations competitiveness challenge and their
  implications for states, localities, and
  regions.
• September 28th in Washington, DC

NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, NATIONAL ACADEMY
OF ENGINEERING, AND INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF TH
E NATIONAL ACADEMIES
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OF ENGINEERING, AND INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF TH
E NATIONAL ACADEMIES
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Immediate Convocation Impact

• Representatives from all 50 states.
• Almost 850 participants in person in Washington
  plus another 500 via video webcast particularly
  at the Beckman Center in California, Sigma Xi in
  North Carolina, and 5 sites in Pennsylvania.
• Over 90 of those participating in person in
  Washington indicated convocation was good or
  excellent via evaluation form.

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OF ENGINEERING, AND INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF TH
E NATIONAL ACADEMIES
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E NATIONAL ACADEMIES
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State Action Items in K-12 STEM
EducationIdentified by Convocation Participants

• Educate the American public about the need to
  improve STEM education in Americas schools
  
• Coordinate science, technology, engineering, and
  mathematics (STEM) education reform efforts
  working with State Legislatures and Departments
  of Education to get real changes in STEM
  curriculum.
• Attach to the Senate Bill a statement encouraging
  states to form coalitions to improve STEM
  education.
  
• Use a systems approach to improve STEM for Pre-K
  to 25. This means addressing all interacting
  variables, including, but not limited to Teacher
  Professional Development, Teacher education,
  Salaries, Support in the classroom, Afterschool
  programs, Distance learning, Preschool, and
  Parent/community education.

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OF ENGINEERING, AND INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF TH
E NATIONAL ACADEMIES
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More STEM K-12 State and Local Actions

• Prepare more and better math and science teachers
  as well as specialists (elementary school) and
  work with school counselors.
  
• Encourage underrepresented groups to go into
  teaching,
  
• Create systematic and persistent collaborations
  between universities and K-12 schools in their
  regions on curriculum develop and teacher
  preparation.
• Establish a state mechanism/clearinghouse to
  facilitate the involvement of the enormous pool
  of the states scientists and engineers in K-12
  education, with special focus on those scientists
  who have retired or will be retiring in the next
  few years.
• Develop a streamlined accreditation process that
  would enable these retirees to become middle and
  high school teachers.

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Yet More K-12 STEM Activities

• Meet with science centers and museums, and
  coordinate with state curriculum.
  
• Encourage partnerships with companies to
  encourage technical staff scientists and
  engineers to become actively involved as
  volunteers in local schools to promote STEM
  education.
• Establish a Teacher Advisory Council of Math
  Science teachers, collaborating with a
  stakeholder organization to develop goals and
  actions.
• Organize a K-12 state-wide symposium and use role
  models to excite elementary and middle school
  students to engage women/minorities
  
• Discuss what science, engineering, and
  mathematics courses should look like.
  

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State Action Items in Higher EducationIdentified
by Convocation Participants

• Establish an in-state scholarship program for
  high school graduates.
  
• Increase state support need-based scholarship
• Address issue of amount of undergraduate debt (it
  can be a factor for underrepresented groups in
  STEM on whether or not they continue with their
  graduate studies).
• Discuss what science, engineering, and
  mathematics courses should be like.
  
• Work in partnership with K-12 school systems on
  K-12 STEM topics described in previous slides.

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State Action Items in ResearchIdentified by
Convocation Participants

• Initiate a major, state-wide program, equivalent
  to the Academy Awards, to reward success in
  scientific research and in science education, so
  as to create desirable role models of scientists.
  Awards should be for research accomplishment at
  all levels from undergraduate student, graduate
  student, postdoctoral fellow, junior
  faculty/researcher, senior faculty/researcher.
• Develop strategies and a structure that will
  insure greater collaboration and synergy among
  research universities, government labs, and the
  tech business sector.

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State Action Items in InnovationIdentified by
Convocation Participants

• Establish a statewide ST authority.
• Conduct an assessment of states strengths and
  weaknesses in the development and
  commercialization of intellectual property,
  benchmarked against the best performing states.
• Appoint a high level group, possibly under the
  auspices of the Governor, to identify areas where
  states have the potential to build world
  leadership in the commercialization of
  intellectual property.
• Set up state funded competitively funded pre- and
  early-seed monies for universities to support
  transfer of technology to early stage start ups.
  

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State Action Items in CommunicationIdentified by
Convocation Participants

• Involve governors and legislators Ask the
  governor to convene a meeting of leaders
  
• Go back to State/Region and learn what is already
  happening. Ask governors, mayors, etc. Have you
  read the Rising Above Gathering Storm executive
  summary?
• Organize best practices to educate state
  legislators about the value of graduate
  education. Elevate the awareness of the
  importance of grad education (talk to other grad
  deans).
• Educate the public and measure public opinion via
  literature, campaigns, town hall meetings
  
• Create awareness/urgency in the public including
  parents via media and net campaigns.
  
• Fund permanent science exhibits at local shopping
  malls.
  

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Other State Action Items Identified by
Convocation Participants

• Work with the National Governors Association on
  their innovation initiative and inform and work
  with regional governors associations (such as
  the Western Governors Association).
• States should work together to establish joint
  funding, best practices, and joint projects that
  would benefit all states.
  
• Post best practices, but also remember that one
  size does not fit all.
  
• Mobilize association members as well as use
  association alerts and establish alert networks
  
• Hold state specific meetings on Gathering Storm
  report.

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Planned National Academies Activities

• Video of meeting presentations at
  www.nationalacademies.org/gatheringstorm (Some
  online as of now with completion by October 15.)
  
• List of action items, by State, identified by
  Convocation Participants.
  
• Brief summary of convocation discussions.
• Follow-up in 6 months and 1 year later to
  determine impact on state and local actions.

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OF ENGINEERING, AND INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF TH
E NATIONAL ACADEMIES
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E NATIONAL ACADEMIES
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Suggestions from Convocation Participant for
National Academies Activities

• Meeting in 6 months to one year to continue
  discussions (50)
  
• Keeping connected and updating others with new
  ideas/best practices (25).
  
• Via an e-mail list, website discussion group, or
  newsletter
  
• List of state action items.
• Summary and online access to convocation
  materials (powerpoints) (21)
  
• Inform the general public about the issues
  discussed in the Gathering Storm report (1)
  

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OF ENGINEERING, AND INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF TH
E NATIONAL ACADEMIES
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E NATIONAL ACADEMIES
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For more informationwww.nationalacademies.org/g
atheringstorm PDF of executive summary and
full report are available at no cost
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