Implementation Team
Members of the Team
The team is made up of professionals with broad expertise in helping projects be successful. Every member of the team has an advanced science degree and can substantially contribute to conversations about how program elements can arranged to best meet a project's goals. Collectively, the team boasts several decades of experience consulting with project PIs to design and implement their project activities with each staff member drawing not only on their own skills and knowledge but that of the whole team. The work of the team can be broken down into five main areas.
Websites and Online Project Support
Projects that elect to have a SERC-hosted website are assigned a team member to support their use of Serckit. Staff contribute to site architecture design, web content development, design of graphical elements, technical support for project personnel and participants, quality assurance review of web pages, web publishing, and many other technical tasks.
Project examples:
On the Cutting EdgeCLEAN Network
Workshop Planning and Support
Many projects use workshops to meet program goals such as building community, creating curated collections of teaching materials, coming to consensus on best practices, and setting agendas for future work together or community initiatives. The team has extensive experience in developing workshop programs, including the pre-workshop assignments and post-workshop follow-on activities, to meet these goals. This often includes guiding project leads in the best use of the Serckit platform functions, and providing examples from previous activities, tying our work back to our expertise with web development.
Project examples:
Project EDDIETeaching Computation with MATLAB
Project Management
Team members provide PIs with guidance and assistance in project management borne of collective experience working with scores of efforts. Staff can: organize and facilitate project meetings and workshops; track project progress; manage budgets for some or all of a project; provide remote and on-site workshop support in real-time; manage project communication, marketing, and outreach; provide event and project evaluation in cooperation with SERC's Evaluation Team.
Project examples:
Program Development
Members of the team can provide project PIs with insights around how to achieve the outcomes they envision for their programs. Staff bring extensive science content knowledge and teaching experience to bear in areas such as faculty professional development, community of practice development, education research, and curriculum development. The SERC staff overall is a valuable resource for any science education project.
Project examples:
WILSIMSpatial Thinking Workbook
Event Planning and Support
Members of the team bring considerable expertise in planning and supporting in-person and virtual events. Team staff can provide tools and experience needed to run effective and engaging conferences, workshops, webinars, meetings, working groups, and more. Team member insight into event structure, audience engagement, technical support, and event management can ensure success for leaders and participants. This includes utilizing best practices for running meetings, such as modeling effective pedagogies as well as improving upon experiences through both formative and summative assessments, such as designing and implementing daily road checks and end of workshop surveys.
Project examples:
Earth Educators' RendezvousInTeGrate Workshops and WebinarsASCN Transforming Institutions Conference