Potential Research Questions for Freedom School

Please simply edit this post and add your questions. That way it will be in one place.

RQ’s for freedom school:

• How are the goals for the school being acted out in practice?
• To what extent and in what ways are the science identities of the students being repaired?
• In what way is reform-based teaching being enacted? What is the nature of the relationships with students and how is it being fostered by faculty and staff?
• What is the nature of the partnership with East High and how does it affect teaching and learning at the Freedom School?
• With STARS:
  • How does the focus of the school impact the way stars is ‘lived’
  • What type of identity work is done through the interactions between the two sites?

J’s plan for Spring 2009

Project and research work as related to GRS:

• Project 1: My primary goal is to help organize our data. This has two pieces
  • Development of the database that will be used to hold information about all our projects and data
  • Entry of our data into this system
• Project 2- Work on the course syllabus for disruptive technologies course.
• GRS Research: Beyond the writing that April and I are already doing, I think I will most likely be playing a support role in new research. It does make sense that as I am organizing the data, that I also begin to some data reduction and basic analysis.
• My research: I will be doing an RSRB-approved study on the negotiation of purposes in virtual worlds used as part of classrooms.

Busy semester but I think at this point it looks manageable.

Thanks,
J:)

2009 0130 Meeting Agenda

We have an agenda for the meeting this Friday the 30th of January at 2-4 pm. We will meet off campus in Panera at 12 Corners.

Prior to this meeting please take five minutes to do two things:

1. Log into the server via remote desktop (this may entail finding out your password from a tech expert), and confirm that you can get into the Get Real! Science Folder. This is important as permissions to do this may have changed.

2. Post on the blog at:

http://grsresearch.wordpress.com/

Agenda-

-30 minutes – upcoming pd that April will be facilitating and would like our feedback.

-logging onto our data on server – data organization on the Get Real! Science Folder

-February 11 – an update on the lunch hour.

-kankana – an update – share quick overview of slides from presentation.

-Freedom School Questions for future research

On Agenda for next meeting:

(next meeting – 474 questions)

(schedule STARS brainstorming)

-Michael

regrouping

Hey all -

Okay, so what’s on the agenda for this Friday?  I would like to have 20 minutes to pitch some ideas for professional development for next week.   I think each of us was going to post 1) possible research questions for our Freedom School collaboration that could guide RSRB and data collection ; and 2) a description of what each of us will do for project and research work.

Could someone post the calendar here too – who’s facilitating next?  Thanks!

*April

Update for Friday, Jan. 23rd

Hello Everyone,

In lieu of our “meeting” we will be meeting at April’s office to organize and store data.  However, at some point, we still need to ‘break’ to get an update from Kankana about her work with George Moses and the Freedom School. If possible, I’d also like to spend a few minutes brainstorming our research questions for 474 data and how we’d like it organized in Atlas TI. So, if you have any ideas or thoughts, please post them!

Thanks and see you tomorrow!

Project work and research work

My thoughts…

Jeremiah and I were hoping to collaborate on the “data management” issue. April’s office (no offense April) seems like a daunting task for just one individual and we feel that together we can accomplish great things – or at the very least, some great organization. Out first meeting together will be on Monday, January 19th to get things sorted and devise a plan of action. We will be able to update you on Friday, the 23rd, during the research meeting.

In terms of research work, I plan to complete the STARS binders (angels singing in background) and possibly get the “master binder” set up for next year. In addition to this, I will work with Michael and April in setting up the 474 research in Atlas TI. We will need to meet to discuss what research questions we are trying to answer and how to best manage the data set.

In the meantime, I will review (once I can find them) some old notes and emails to see what questions we had been asking during the EMI paper – April and I had (what now feels like) hundreds of questions about the cohort, their learning experiences, identity development as a reform-minded teachers, how the coursework offered by 474 supported their development, their expectations of how a classroom should look versus how it does look, teachers’ perceptions and attitudes about reform, and how teachers developed within contexts which did or did not support their reform-minded efforts.

Okay – thanks everyone for the great meeting today – and the awesome food was greatly appreciated!

Hello!

Okay – the calendar for our research group meetings has been posted to google calendars, but just in case:

Every Friday from 2 -4 pm:
(Names listed are the facilitators for those sessions)

1/23 – Liz
1/30 – Kankana
2/6 – Michael
2/13 – Jeremiah
2/20 – April
2/27 – Liz
3/6 – Kankana
3/13 – Michael
3/20 – Liz
3/27 – April
4/3 – Liz
4/10 – Kankana
4/17 – Jeremiah
4/24 – Liz (with Kankana on reserves in case Aiden comes early…)
5/1 – Michael
5/8 – April
5/15 – Jeremiah

Scribe post 2008 0722

Here is a scribe post from our meeting. However it is not exactly taken as the meeting unfolded, but slightly after the meeting.

Highs and Lows made us giddy… eg. Janet is up for tenure…

NARST proposal updated and on google.docs at (link forthcoming)

 

 

Data system/management also on Google docs: (link forthcoming)

 

Next time have three plusses and three arrows for each EMI paper…

July 15 Scribe Post

We had to review and set for what we are working on:

• April finished her NOVA chapter
• April is working on workshop for the KNOWLES conference: This will be on blogging in math and science and
• Michael and Liz are working on NARST Symposium
• Interviews for 486
  • Second within the next two weeks [nope changed to only having a final one]
  • Third after 8/8- Jeremiah will schedule these; Kankana, Liz and Jeremiah will conduct them
  • FOR NEXT YEAR: Need to do before class starts
• NARST Proposal
  • This will be what is being done with video data from the KNOWLES group to answer the question(s)
    • what criteria were used to measure success
    • post induction vs. pre induction
    • roles played within the interview sessions
    • how did needs differ based on years of experience
  • Data to draw from
    • stimulated recall
    • focus group
    • rsts
  • For a proposal don’t necessarily hit the full data analysis but know what your findings are and then work from those to show what will be discussed
  • Michael and Liz will have something written to give to April for next week
• Data/Process Management
  • Have an online forum for submitting work to a database/webfolder storage space- Jeremiah will find out more information on this
  • Need to start capturing standard processes of data collection – This could become a handbook [that may be published at some point]
• List serv- Kankana took care of this and it is up to date
• International Handbook Chapter has the precis written, a planning time with Ralph and the outline was revised. Writing first draft will begin on it Thursday
• Binders:
  • Liz will pull together the get real science publications in a binder
  • Kankana is putting together a binder for all data: We will all bring the data we have to put in
• EMI Reviews: Liz and Jeremiah are working on this. They have read the articles and will have the notes done by the 29th. April will send a sheet with reviewing guidelines from another journal.
• We will be in 1160b for Fall semester from 3-5 except for 9/5, 10/10, 11/7, 12/5

Next Meeting Agenda Items

• NARST 20 min (Liz and Michael will bring something written)
• Data Management (Jeremiah and Michael will facilitate a brainstorming)
• Handbook (Kankana will facilitate– everyone will bring data that they have)
• Highs and Lows (15 min)
• Updates on projects (15 min)

Happily scribed by,
J:)

Research Group Notes

So lets try the scribe for the day/meeting trick. I’ll be first scribe:)

First, we spent some times organizing ourselves. We are going to have binders of our core let.

• For each binder we will have the larger Discourse section, our focus or a depth section and then a section where GRS papers are located dealing with that topic.
• When papers are put in the

Second we talked about research design. We need three overarching plans for research:

• How are we going to study GRS teacher research program is our impact (we need to know primary objectives — need to really focus on the urban science ed.)? So talk about what everyone is doing..
• A new look (research)-pre-tenure: how is this impacting kids. So look at stars/camp and K-12 kids (perhaps)
• Get real science phase 2 (474 not in course structure). What are we going to do with all the graduates of GRS that is manageable and valuable and then how are we going to study its impact.

Third we tallked about the website priorities

• Do we need things for updates @ camp??
• Do we need things for updates for research??

Fourth we talked about the papers that need to plan and look forward to planning and put in place:

• 3rd space paper
• Camp paper
• Orlando paper
• 474 paper (have to)

Fifth we talked about what proposals for AERA NARST, etc need to put together

• Nova chapter- Thick description of GRS. Then analysis of perceived impact and the perceived tensions.

Finally the planning for the work session: Here is the chart for work that we developed to help plan.

More to come,

J : )