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Orientation to Nontraditional Occupations for Women (ONOW) developed by the Ohio Department of Education, Columbus, Ohio. This is an eight-week training program that has been used in Ohio and other states to help socio-economically disadvantaged adult women (often incarcerated or on welfare) explore and successfully enter high-wage careers in nontraditional fields in which they are under-represented such as construction, manufacturing, high-tech and nontraditional service industries.
Contact: Connie Blair
Email: connie.blair@ode.state.oh.us,
Phone: 614-644-6238
Web site: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/ctae/adult
Career Choices Curriculum developed by Academic Innovations, Santa Barbara, CA. This is a comprehensive career and life planning guidance program that helps young people, especially young women. It has been used in grades nine and ten in over 1800 schools nationwide and helps students understand the importance of making deliberate career choices and may contribute to decreased dropouts and higher achievement in reading and mathematics.
Contact: Mindy Bingham
Email: mindy@academicinnovations.com
Phone: 800-967-8016
Web site: http://www.academicinnovations.com
Playtime is Science: An Equity-based Parent/Child Science Program developed by Educational Equity Concepts, Inc., NY, NY. An intensive three-day program implementer training package is supplemented by follow-up training to help individual schools or districts and by materials to be used with the children. It uses inquiry-based activities in the physical sciences. It has increased teacher and parent use of science activities associated with increased positive attitudes among under-served groups, especially girls.
Contact: Merle Froschl and Barbara Sprung
Email: information@edequity.org
Phone: 212-243-1110
Web site: http://www.edequity.org
Family Tools and Technology developed by the Center for Family Involvement in Schools, a unit of the Consortium for Educational Equity, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. In this program teacher teams participate in five days of training to help them run a seven-session after-school program for girls and boys in grades 4-7, and their parents. The program attempts to enroll 70 percent girls in each group. Girls said they increased their use of tools as well as their attitudes about females using tools. Their parents and teachers became more positive about girls' endeavors in mathematics, science and technology.
Contacts: Arlene Chasek
Email: Aschasek@aol.com
Phone: 908-464-6284
Web site: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cfis
Robert Weber
Email: weber@CNJ.EDU
Phone: 609-771-1776
National Science Partnership for Girl Scouts and Science Museums developed by The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, PA and the Girl Scouts of the USA, NY, NY. This program provides two-hour leader training for each of seven student activity kits. Each kit contains 12-25 hands-on science activities for girls, ages 6-11. It has been effective in increasing interest in science among both the girls and their girl scout leaders. It also provides a model for partnerships between museums and other youth-serving organizations.
Contacts: Dale McCreedy
Email: McCreedy@fi.edu
Phone: 215-448-1092
Web site: http://www.fi.edu/tfi/programs/nsp.html
Sharon Hussey
Email: shussey@girlscouts.org,
Phone: 212-852-8150
EQUALS developed by the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley. The EQUALS mathematics program is thirty hours of in-service workshops focusing on hands-on problem solving, equity awareness, cooperative team work for teachers, parents, and community leaders who work with K-12 students. Teachers reported that EQUALS helped them address the needs of their female and language minority students and noted improvements in students' attitudes and scores in some aspects of mathematics.
Contact: Jose Franco
Email: equals@uclink.berkeley.edu
Phone: 510-642-0230
Web site: http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/equals
ASPIRE: Alabama Supercomputing Program to Inspire Computational Research in Education was developed by the computer science department at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. ASPIRE provides two-week and one week professional development programs for high school and middle school teachers to help them instruct students in solving real world problems using a computational science approach to problem-solving. Students learn mathematical modeling, simulation, and scientific visualization and develop writing and presentation skills by participating in an annual statewide EXPO. Although females are usually under-represented in such courses, ASPIRE teachers saw gender equitable student success in their year-long classes as measured by student enrollment, attitudes, project performance and gains on content tests. For example girls won about 50 percent of the prizes in the various contests based on course projects.
Contact: Gypsy Abbott
Email: gabbott@uab.edu,
Phone: 205-934-8330
Web site: http://aspire.cs.uah.edu
Campus Peer Training Project developed by the National Coalition Building Institute, Washington, DC. This three-day college campus "train the trainer" institute works with 30-70 students, faculty, administrators and support staff to lead prejudice reduction workshops to respond to racism, sexism and other inter-group conflict. Workshop participants gain skills and awareness and increase their commitment to actively oppose prejudiced and stereotypical behavior.
Contact: Cherie Brown
Email: ncbiinc@aol.com,
Phone: 202-785-9400
Web site: http://www.ncbi.org
The Program on Intergroup Relations, Conflict and Community (IGRCC) developed by the Program on Intergroup Relations, Conflict and Community, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In this program, formal academic courses and personal experience provide the basis for structured conversations/intergroup dialogues across racial, ethnic, and other social group boundaries such as gender. The program has been used with undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Michigan and adapted by other universities. Students learned conflict management.
Contact, Monita Thompson
Email: IGRCC@umich.edu
Phone: 734-936-1875
Web site: http://www.umich.edu/~igrc
Succeeding at Fairness: Effective Teaching for All Students developed by Myra and David Sadker, School of Education, American University, Washington, DC. This flexible three-day tiered teacher in-service training program increases the effectiveness and equity of cassroom teaching. It does so by helping participants understand gender-related research and increase their own gender equitable classroom interactions. Many participants also become empowered through their own experiences in peer coaching and replicating this training program.
Contact: David Sadker
Email: Dsadker@aol.com
Phone 202-885-3728,
Web site: http://www.american.edu/sadker/ or http://www.sadker.org
A Woman's Place...Is in the Curriculum developed by the National Women's History Project, Windsor, CA. This five-day teacher training conference on women's history is for K-12 educators to help them incorporate multicultural women's history into all subjects from elementary school to college. The participants who come from across the nation as well as other countries bring the multicultural roles of women in US history into their schools by using existing resources and developing their own activities and courses.
Contact: Molly MacGregor
Email: NWHP@aol.com
Phone 707-838-6000
Web site: http://www.nwhp.org
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