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posted by:
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Gail Paulin
on October 29, 1998
at 8:53PM
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subject:
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introduction
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TUSD's Districtwide Emphasis on Science Education Reform in Tucson (DESERT Project) views teacher leaders as key to a sustainable site learning community which supports effective science instruction. We currently have 9 teacher leaders called Collaborative Teachers who are housed centrally(7, k-5 2, 6-8) and are each assigned 10-12 sites. Tucson has 94 sites k-8. Each site has a Site Science Facilitator who in addition to being a full time classroom teacher, attends monthly professional development focused on building the skills and knowledge needed as a site leader and works with the teachers and site adminstrators to help communicate information about science education. As a new project(starting in the summer of 98) we have yet to put in place our third teacher leadership program- ARTs or Action Research Teachers. We will begin this program in January 99 for 8-10 teachers and expand to 20 classroom teachers. Their professional development will focus on developing expertise in classroom research to inform the project and to model the role of teacher research in science education reform. We all look forward to this discussion and hope to learn how to better develop support teachers in leadership roles.
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Welcome
- posted by Brian Drayton
on 10/26/98 - 06:52
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