The Wipro Science Education Fellowship program is managed nationally and in the greater Boston area by the University of Massachusetts – Boston. The program also has significant presence in California, Florida, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, and Texas. Each site works cooperatively as a national program, and locally as an individual program.
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The California Wipro Team’s vision for developing teacher leadership in the Wipro SEF Program focuses on developing leadership practices and broadening educators’ perspectives beyond the classroom by applying their leadership skills within their school and district contexts. To meet these goals, the California Wipro Site is continuing to offer the Wipro SEF Classic program to two more cohorts of science teachers from their partner school districts.
The Florida team’s goal is to continue the empowerment of the Wipro SEF Fellows. It is unusual for educators to choose their professional development path much less spearhead a project with it. In this phase, Fellows are further enhancing what they have learned from Phase 1 to increase the district wide impact. The continued personal vested interested in their Phase 2 projects make them the champion for it, as well as involving other individuals (administrators and additional teachers) to help them work towards the overarching goal of district transformation. They have increased the number of projects in their second cohort which has also resulted in every district having a project which helps them achieve the desired district transformation.
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The current project is an expansion of the Wipro SEF teacher network, providing opportunities for collaboration and leadership, and focusing on collaboration between science and math teachers in middle and high school. The project is addressing the challenges of teaching science and math in a harmonious manner at the middle and high school grade levels. The collaboration between math and science teachers is essential to the implementation of successful science and math curricula. This project is focusing on having teachers develop such a culture in a systematic manner using appropriate research articles and paired science and engineering practices and Common Core math practices.
This project involves twelve alumni Fellows working on district-related initiatives and one Fellow working on publicizing the program. Each of the alumni Fellows has recruited a team of district teachers. Together, these teams will work towards their respective goals as a new cadre of teacher leaders are nurtured.
The Mercy University Greater New York Wipro Science Education Fellowship has successfully supported a new branch of Wipro SEF, that the Mercy University Center for STEM Education (MCSE) calls, “Wipro SEF Reimagined.” This innovation phase of Wipro involves teacher led, collaborative projects that are designed to enact district change in STEM education. These projects, created by Wipro SEF Fellows and newly participating teachers, receive buy-in from administrators as associate group members, as well as in-district support from DSCs. Over the course of 4 years, MCSE aims to establish a norm of collaborative action towards district change in the five existing Wipro SEF partner districts.
The Wipro SEF Innovation phase is underway at UNT Dallas with the specific goal of achieving district transformation through teacher leadership. Toward this end, they are funding three types of projects: school projects, collaborative projects and individual projects, The school projects are designed to address a specific need of the school or district. Of a total of 14 projects funded, there were 9 school projects in the first year. During Year 2, two of the participating school districts are expanding on previous school projects to other grades and subjects.
