Teachers from partnership school district are being provided with 100 hours of professional development in three phases. The first phase was designed to lay a foundation with the math, science (mostly physics), and engineering design principles to prepare the teachers to infuse engineering design into their programs. The second phase involves the use of our seismic engineering design challenge as a module that the teachers will take back to their programs. The third phase involves fall follow-up meetings of the cohort. The plan was to consider the cohort to be one group over the five years. One group that will simply grow larger each year, rather than five separate cohorts. Data was collected from participants regarding the quality and outcomes of the professional development. The participants also developed a portfolio of resource materials collected in a project binder.
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