Education – 麻豆视频 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:39:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-favicon_logo-32x32.jpg Education – 麻豆视频 32 32 Lusaka鈥檚 Expanding 麻豆视频 Partnerships Look to Solve Capacity Issues聽 /stories/lusakas-expanding-epic-partnerships-look-to-solve-capacity-issues-2/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:55:10 +0000 /?post_type=case_stories&p=17737 Read More... from Lusaka鈥檚 Expanding 麻豆视频 Partnerships Look to Solve Capacity Issues聽

]]> Like many other African cities, Lusaka is facing rapid urbanization and various challenges related to inequality, climate change, economic opportunity, and service delivery. The city is faced with limited technical capacity to deliver essential services to all 3.3 million people and with a growth rate of about 5% annually, Lusaka鈥檚 Local Authority is unable to match the growing demand for public services. The Local Authority is overwhelmed and is currently looking for strategies to help mitigate these issues. Similarly, the University of Zambia has sought to reform its teaching, research, and community engagement strategies to become more relevant to the immediate environment through research and teaching partnerships for community development. To meet both the city and University goals, the 麻豆视频 model provides a simple but powerful tool that can draw upon the skills and technical know-how of academicians, researchers, and their students, to help aid Lusaka鈥檚 struggling municipality. 

Lusaka already has a history of using the 麻豆视频 model on a smaller scale as the city signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Zambia to institutionalize the 麻豆视频 model in Lusaka. For the past four years, the model has been implemented on a small scale and has resulted in significant gains for the city. Currently, the City Council of Lusaka and the University of Zambia are looking to expand the 麻豆视频 model to create city-wide positive change to locally relevant issues such as climate change adaptation, waste management, and urban planning. This project will look to begin in August of 2023 and end by August 2024. 

In taking steps to expand the model, the City hopes to build capacity among all 麻豆视频 model actors in Lusaka through training, sensitization, and community engagement so that skills are created for upscaling deployment of the 麻豆视频 model in Lusaka. The City would also like to collaborate with other entities to identify community development interventions that are in line with the principles of the 麻豆视频 model and make investments to support urban climate adaptation, social and gender inclusion in city development plans, and support learning and innovation at a community level. Finally, the city would also like to undertake capacity development actions that look to build sustainability in all future 麻豆视频 interventions in Lusaka through expanded partnerships for 麻豆视频 innovations. 

In support of the goals, the project will look to sensitize at least 20 Departments at the University of Zambia to adopt the 麻豆视频 model in teaching and research. To increase the application of the 麻豆视频 model and principles in the community, the project will increase the capacity of all nine Departments at the Lusaka City Council. This research will work to accelerate the implementation and expansion of the 麻豆视频 model by expanding the agreement to build sustainability. Over 500 students are planned to be involved in the 麻豆视频 model beginning with graduate courses in Economics, Geography, Urban Planning, Development Studies, Environmental Management, Public Health, Geomatics, GIS, Environmental Education, Civil Engineering, and Education. 

There will be many actors involved throughout this project to meet as many goals as possible. The project will be implemented as a collaboration between the Lusaka City Council, the University of Zambia, and selected communities with each party holding a very specific role in the project. For instance, the Lusaka City Council will provide a specific policy framework for community interventions to take place. Communities will anchor and support all activities in the collaboration while the University of Zambia will provide the students and research capacity needed to expand the Epic model in the city. Members of the community will also take the lead in identifying key problems in the communities and in respective wards. Community members will be represented within each project by community leaders, Community-Based Organizations, Ward Development Committees, and residents. 

The University of Zambia will undertake capacity development activities to increase capacity on 麻豆视频 model implementation and raise awareness among the MoU actors. This includes training for students, Course conveners, Deans of Schools, and Heads of Departments at the University of Zambia and the Lusaka City Council. In terms of providing knowledge, university students will provide time and a technical understanding of selected topics and community members will supply time and local knowledge. Students will also take time to engage with communities to define priority interventions through the 麻豆视频 model. 

Through this research, the relationship between communities, the Lusaka City Council, and the University of Zambia will be strengthened. There will additionally, be聽 improved community service and a better understanding of development actions in communities particularly those focused on strengthening climate resilience in flood-prone areas, aligning with SDG 13. This 麻豆视频 project will bring improved governance and civic awareness in communities where 麻豆视频 projects will take place and see increased accountability from all parties involved in community development in Lusaka.聽聽

This project is ongoing and will be finished in 2024.

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]]> The State College Borough plans to build a bike connector path along Easterly and Westerly Parkway between the State College Area High School and Easterly Parkway Elementary. A group of students in CED 309 will analyze the best options for construction of the bike path, taking into account intersecting streets and curb cuts for driveways, as these impact both safety for pedestrians and cyclists as well as project costs.

]]> The Spring Creek Watershed Association is working on improving its website with additional and interactive features through the Spring Creek Watershed Atlas Project. The primary goal is to inform the public about the importance of the watershed and increased environmental pressures due to regional growth and development. Students in CED 309 will research locally applicable land-use patterns and trends and their impact, and will share findings in an online story map application.

]]> The Mississippi River Watershed Management Organization鈥檚 (MWMO) education and outreach program seeks to 鈥減rovide information, services and products to promote responsible stewardship of water and natural resources by the watershed community.鈥 As part of this goal, MWMO would like to develop curriculum units for stormwater management best management practices (BMPs) that can be shared with both formal and informal educators. Currently, MWMO shares general resources with educators (e.g., resources from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources or the U.S. Geological Survey), but MWMO does not have the capacity to develop curriculum units for specific BMPs in their watershed.

Students in Engineering in the P-12 Classroom will be invited to develop engineering design curriculum units for BMPs in MWMO鈥檚 watershed boundaries. Curriculum resources tailored to stormwater management BMPs that are installed on sites within MWMO鈥檚 boundaries may increase and facilitate educators鈥 and the public鈥檚 engagement with these sites and practices. Curriculum units that educators can use at specific sites in the watershed would also support the goal of place-based education.

]]> Students will conduct background research on the design for a local economic resiliency dashboard. The dashboard would be used for communities to determine the economic strength. The project will focus on identifying the components of such a dashboard, potential audiences, and data sources for creating the tool.

]]> Focus awareness and education efforts to preclude fires that are easily preventable, focusing on the most effective methods that capture citizens鈥 attention and prompt them to take action. Review of our data about structure fires and identify the preventable causes and focus education and awareness efforts, based on cause and locations. Also identify the most effective programs to reach citizens and get them to take action. This project鈥檚 outcome could benefit the department by keeping our firefighters safer and less likely to be needed for response to preventable fires, and the citizens, keeping them safer and experiencing less property damage.

Livable City Year Contact Info
Teri Thomson Randall
Program Manager
terir@uw.edu
206.221.9240

University Faculty Contact
D.C. Grant
Information Systems
Lecturer
dcgrant@uw.edu
253-692-4537

Local Government / Community Contact
James Duggan

Fire Chief, Tacoma Fire Department

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]]> During the 2018-2019 school year, I have had the privilege of developing a program focused on reducing isolation and increasing support for new teachers in the Juda School District. I want to thank the wonderful administration and staff in Juda for allowing me to be a part of their community. When this project began, I knew rural schools, both in and out of Green County, are challenged with recruiting and retaining teachers. Why teachers don鈥檛 seek out jobs or stay in rural schools is not quite clear, but this possibly could be contributed to their overall job satisfaction. Efficacy is often linked to being provided with the appropriate support so teachers can feel they can do their job well. Research has also shown that the best level of support comes from other teachers. The district administrator and I also wondered if encouraging investment in the rural community increases a teacher鈥檚 desire to stay. All these thoughts transformed into the new teacher project in Juda. The story of three new teachers is likely a common tale across other small schools in Green County. This year Juda had three new teachers, all working in very different roles. We met on a monthly basis and covered a variety of topics pertinent to skills required of new teachers, including classroom management, teacher effectiveness, and teacher leadership. It was a challenge developing a program that fit the needs of three individuals teaching various content. I worked closely with the district administrator to design a program that would focus on strategies which highlighted the strength of these rural communities in an attempt to connect these teachers with the one thing their roles have in common: teaching in a small rural school. Together the teachers and I explored how the rural context presents unique aspects, both encouraging and challenging. Through this project, we discovered the importance of keeping teachers supported and interested by highlighting the positive effect the rural context has on their teaching practices. My time in Juda has shown me that the school is at the heart of the community and so are the teachers. I hope this research project will help future individuals who are challenged with creating an effective new teacher mentor program in a small rural school. Below I outline the framework to design the project, discuss program features, and present a modified version of the district鈥檚 current new mentor program.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

UniverCity Year Contact Info
Gavin Luter
Managing Director
gavin@cows.org
608-261-1141

University Faculty Contact
Katie McCabe
Communications & Operations

kmccabe4@wisc.edu

Local Government / Community Contact

Juda School District

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]]> Students in CED 475 will determine feasible renewable energy sources for the borough to explore, research current borough rules and regulations, and make recommendations for what the borough should do to encourage greater use of renewable energy sources.

]]> Students in CED 309 will create maps and other tools to help educate local leaders and the general public about the impacts of development and land use on Spring Creek Watershed and its role as an economic asset to the community.

]]> Students in CED 309 will estimate the loss of ash trees to the emerald ash borer, explore strategies to maximize the value of removed trees, and analyze the impact of tree loss on property values and the perceptions of public investment in tree planting.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Sustainable Communities Collaborative Contact Info

University Faculty Contact
Kate Zipp
Agricultural Sciences
Assistant Professor
kyz1@psu.edu
(814) 863-8247

Local Government / Community Contact
Alan Sam

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