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Gail Paulin
on June 9, 1998
at 5:28AM
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Starting up
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Having received our funding notice May 12,98 we are in the process of scaling up our efforts with two types of introductions. The first is a one day conference for our site facilitators. It will be held three times this summer June,July and August, to accomodate teachers vacations schedules. Our first one is June 24. We are pleased to have about 90 of the 94 K-8 sites signed up to attend one of these sessions The conference will explain our DESERT Project LSC and the expectations for facilitators who will be paid over the year to attend monthly meetings to address issues of need and concern at the site level related to science.
Our second conference is called PULSE (Principals Understanding Leadership in Science Education) We have 40 principals k-8 signed up for the 2 day conference July 29-30. They will do a short adult inquiry, they will view tapes of science lessons and use Horizon's 5 point rubric to generate discussion of what effective science instruction looks like. they will also be given a CBAM assessment and time to learn about the LSC and to express their needs and concerns, to help us formulate the years PD for principals. Sorry I have taken so long to post, as you all may recall, starting up one of these is rather hectic( & I suspect it doesn't get better as one goes along. If anyone has suggestions for what one MUST be certain to include in such start up sessions, welcome suggestions. thanks Gail
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