Coattailing once again on the Calculus Education seminar, this week we will have as our Brown Bag guest Michael Freeman from the University of Kentucky. He will launch the day's discussion by talking about the problem of gaining internal support for an innovation in education. His description: How do you get the Administration's ear, how do you get support to pilot an idea, how do you keep them informed and eventually buy into a program? These questions are important to anyone who wants to launch a MathExcel program (my name for what amounts to Uri Treisman's idea) and they're difficult. My own Administration, which has been notably supportive at the "experimental" level, is also awfully resistant to putting support on a predictable, recurring basis. We still have hope, but it's hard.

Come and join us on Thursday, October 28 at noon in the Math Lounge.

Coattailing once again on the Calculus Education seminar, this week we will have as our Brown Bag guest Michael Freeman from the University of Kentucky. He will launch the day's discussion by talking about the problem of gaining internal support for an innovation in education. His description: How do you get the Administration's ear, how do you get support to pilot an idea, how do you keep them informed and eventually buy into a program? These questions are important to anyone who wants to launch a MathExcel program (my name for what amounts to Uri Treisman's idea) and they're difficult. My own Administration, which has been notably supportive at the "experimental" level, is also awfully resistant to putting support on a predictable, recurring basis. We still have hope, but it's hard.

Come and join us on Thursday, October 28 at noon in the Math Lounge.