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I hope that you will continue to support the important work that The
POGIL Project team will accomplish over the coming years, and join us
on our mission to make effective student-centered learning commonplace
across the country and around the world.
BY MAIL:
We want you to share in the success of this Project, because
without your contributions, none of this would be possible.
You can make a contribution online at www.pogil.org/contact/donate
I am humbled and inspired by everything that the POGIL community
has already achieved, and look forward to even better things in the years
to come. As I remind people annually at the POGIL National Meeting:
“Everyone in The POGIL Project is great, and we work really hard.” And I
wouldn’t say it if it weren’t true! As a community, we strive to support each
other as we build on the successes we have realized over the past decade,
and to help each other achieve (and exceed!) our goals for the future.
ONLINE:
Every year, we continue to grow and improve our efforts as an
organization, and the past 12 months have proven to be exceptional in
the development of The Project. In 2014, we continued to push forward
with our strategic plan goals, expanded into more subject areas with new
material collections, and added new voices to the POGIL team with
workshops and events in more areas than ever before.
WAYS TO GIVE
When my colleagues and I began using the group
learning approach that became POGIL back in
1994, we wanted to engage students directly in
their learning within an environment that better
helped them gain meaningful understanding of
difficult content. What we ended up with though,
was something much more expansive— a continually growing team of
dedicated educators that has worked to improve STEM education for
more than 10 years.
The POGIL Project
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Dear Friends,
The POGIL Project provides quality resources to
educators around the country and the world who are
interested in putting students at the center of their own
learning. Your support, no matter the amount, is vital to
ensuring that we can continue to have an impact on
thousands of educators and students every year, as well
grow as an organization. We hope that you will consider a
contribution to The POGIL Project.
FROM THE DIRECTOR
2014 ANNUAL REPORT
Shawn Simonson, ED.D., C.S.C.S., ACSM H/FI
Director, Human Performance Laboratory
Associate Professor, Boise State University
REALIZING THE PROJECT’S STRATEGIC PLAN
In 2012, The POGIL Project developed a 5-year strategic plan to guide
the direction of The Project. By the close of 2014, we will have completed
the first two years of that plan and the POGIL community has been
working tirelessly to realize its goals, establishing new initiatives aimed at
increasing the scope, diversity, and effectiveness of The Project.
STRATEGIC PLAN HIGHLIGHTS:
Development of an Activity Development Network, an online resource for
NEW INITIATIVES
EVERY DOLLAR HELPS TEACHERS
AROUND THE COUNTRY
As a 501(c)(3) organization, a large portion of our operating budget comes
from donations from individuals just like you. Your incredible support
helps The Project continue to provide quality professional development
to more and more teachers every year, and have an impact on countless
students across the country.
A Partnership with Baltimore City Schools
The POGIL Project will hold workshops for AP Biology and Chemistry teachers in the
Baltimore City Public School system in the 2014-15 school year, and plans to expand our
work with the city school district to all STEM subjects in the near future.
New POGIL Computer Science Materials
These materials will soon be completed as part of a program to develop resources for the
new AP CS Principles course launching in 2015. In addition, as part of a grant funded by
to collaborate.
NEW POGIL MATERIALS
The POGIL Project expanded its programming in India, working to increase
In 2014, members of The POGIL Project completed work on several new
material collections, with more on the way! In the past year alone, The
POGIL Project has endorsed the following:
awareness, implementation and other active learning strategies, and to support the
development and sharing of POGIL activities.
Creation of the TAPAS (Truly Awesome POGIL Activity Showcase), a digital
collection of exemplary and diverse POGIL activities that spans multiple disciplines.
The first POGIL Regional Summits took place, bringing together experienced
facilitators in the same geographic area to share ideas and best practices to strengthen the
quality of POGIL implementation at all levels.
more than
the Helmsley Foundation through AAC&U, POGIL will be used to implement the new
Computer Science principles course at Westminster College, as well as create a biologycomputer science learning community.
workshops held
more than
Looking to the Future
The POGIL Project has organized a multi-institution consortium to facilitate
a professional development network aimed at improving the performance of
underrepresented students in STEM gateway courses, as well as further assessing the
effectiveness of POGIL.
“I support the POGIL Project
because my students are best
served by the pedagogy. I can
meet them where they need me.”
Kristin Plessel
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Rock County
Cameron Rutledge, Junior
Chemistry Major
Franklin & Marshall College
Costs of POGIL Workshops:
teachers who want to find and test activities, as well as find other educators with whom
Throughout the past year, The POGIL Project has embarked on many exciting
new initiatives aimed at expanding the scope of our work, as well as ensuring that
even more students are able to experience active, student-centered learning.
“[With POGIL] not only do I
retain the information, but I
get to teach other people, which
reinforces what I’m learning.”
teachers trained
more than
students impacted
(and counting)
conducting workshops in
countries
Since 2012
Legend: One
equals 300 individuals & One
*
equals 5 workshops
THE POGIL PROJECT DONORS As of October 2014:
Julie Abrahamson
Karen Anderson
Susan Arenberg
Rodney Austin
Mary Bartholomew
Christopher F. Bauer
Susan Bell
Gautam Bhattacharyya
Ellen Boyle
Andrew R. Bressette
Betsy Brooks
Donnell J. Butler
Kelly Butler
Patricia Butler
Paula W. Butler
John Campbell
Joseph Carroll
Joseph Chambers
Elna M. Clevenger
Roy Cohen
Renee S. Cole
Colleen Conway
Richard Copp
Kimberley Cousins
Frank J. Creegan
Jim Dearing
Paul DiVito
Elliot P. Douglas
Marcy Dubroff
Mark Ediger
John Farrell
Arnold Feldman
Tracy Feldman
Ruth Ferguson
Ted Foster
Franklin & Marshall College
Ronald Frederick
Regina Frey
Laura Galligan
Michael Garoutte
Alan Glazer
Anne Glenn
Steven J. Gravelle
Thomas J. Greenbowe
Alex Grushow
Jill Guerra
Sue Guillaud
Ellen Harpel
Bruce Heyen
Carol Higginbotham
Matt Higgins
Tom Higgins
Donald Hirsh
Megan Hoffman
Kevin Hoke
Laura Hollabaugh
Tina Holland
Tom Holme
Elizabeth Jensen
Murray Jensen
David Johnson
Loretta Jones
Joseph Keane
Nancy Keebler
Steven Kennedy
Daniel King
Clif Kussmaul
Jill Lafer
Juliette Lantz
Alan Levine
Jennifer Lewis
Susanne Lewis
Carol Baker Libby
R. Daniel Libby
Jim LoBue
Jennifer A. Loertscher
Mark Lonnegren
Ashley Mahoney
Elizabeth Mancini
Larry Margerum
Mark Maroncelli
Andrea E. Martin
Delphine Martin
Jenny Mayer
Craig P. McClure
Timothy McElroy
Tina Mewhinney
Benjamin Miller
Alva Moog
Bob Moog
Richard S. Moog
Tracey Arnold Murray
Barbara Murray
Elizabeth O’Shea
Fred Owens
Linda Padwa
Anna Parker
Lawrence Pensack
Marty Perry
Laura Philips
Kristin Plessel
Rongson Pongdee
Jeff Pribyl
Danae R. Quirk Dorr
Sarah Rathmell
Susan Richardson
Alan Rosan
Carl Salter
Daina Savage
Candace Schneggenburger
Jamie L. Schneider
Andy Schultz
Paul Schultz
David Scott
Krista Seanor
Lorie Sedlmyer
Shawn P. Shields
Shawn Simonson
Jerry Sipe
Aaron Spangler
Donald Spangler
Teresa Speakman
Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh
James N. Spencer
David Stameshkin
Conrad Stanitski
Mike Staton
Barbara Stebbins-Boaz
James P. Stevenson
James Stevenson
Andrei Straumanis
John Strauss
Richard Strauss
Marie Tassini
Chris Thompson
Stephanie Torcivia
Laura Trout
Scott Van Bramer
Mary Walczak
William Wallace
Gail H. Webster
Hal White
Robert Whitnell
Cindy Wingenroth
Robin Wright
Meg Young
Zelda Ziegler
Nasserald Zubair
Eric Zuckerman
Amanda Jane Zullo
Analytical Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry
Introduction to Materials Science and
Lantz, J. et al. Lancaster, PA: The POGIL
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Approach Quantitative Analysis Collection.
Project; New York: Wiley.
Calculus I: A Guided Inquiry. Straumanis,
A. et al. Lancaster, PA: The POGIL
Project; New York: Wiley.
Engineering: A Guided Inquiry. Douglas, E.
POGIL Activities for Introductory Anatomy
and Physiology Courses. Jensen, M. et al.
Lancaster, PA: The POGIL Project; New
York: Wiley.
General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry:
Quantum Chemistry & Spectroscopy:
M. and A. Mahoney. Lancaster, PA: The
Grushow. Lancaster, PA: The POGIL
A Guided Inquiry. 2nd Edition Garoutte,
POGIL Project; New York: Wiley.
A Guided Inquiry. Shepherd, T. and A.
Project; New York: Wiley.
And the following collections are coming soon:
AP Chemistry, Computer Science, and Analytical Chemistry - Instrumentation