[Osta-board] FW: NSF Meeting 2/28

[Lynda]

How do you think we should encourage participation?  Can anyone go to 
this?

Lynda Sanders
OSTA President
NBC Early Adolescent Science


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Subject: NSF Meeting 2/28
Date: 1/2/12 6:28:37 PM
From: "Berns, Barbara" <BBerns at edc.org>
To: jodie.harnden at pendleton.k12.or.us, smcw at bendcable.com, 
sandsciosta at charter.net, aheminway at kunaschools.org, 
durfeeea at d25.k12.id.us, greenesw at billings.k12.mt.us, 
beth_thompas at gfps.k12.mt.us
Cc: SSiegelvexler at pacsci.org


Dear colleagues:

I am writing on the recommendation of Jeanne Chowning and Sonia 
Siegel-Vexler.

I am a staff member EDC ( a non profit organization in MA), and am the 
leader of a major resource network for NSF. In that capacity, we have a 
cooperative agreement with NSF to support a series of regional meetings 
that focus on the NRC report, Successful K-12 STEM Education: 
Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering, 
and Mathematics. (Report can be downloaded from 
successfulstemeducation.org )

There was a roll-out meeting for the report at Drexel University in 
Philadelphia in October, and planning is underway for a day-long meeting 
at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle on Feb. 28th. We are 
collaborating with WA LASER on this meeting which is designed to attract 
particpants from the northwest, with a particular emphasis on 
practitioners. We will also be inviting STEM thought leaders, 
policy-makers, industry leaders, civic leaders, and funders. Invitations 
for the meeting will come from NSF who is the host of the meeting.

I am writing to see if you think this meeting might be of interest to 
teachers and administrators in your state or region.  If you would be 
interested in informing them about regional meetings, we could send you 
materials, or have them receive an invitation from NSF.

If you find this of interest, I would be happy to have a conversation 
about it.  You can communicate with me by email, or we could set up a 
time for a call.

Thanks in advance.

Barbara
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Barbara Brauner Berns
Learning and Teaching Division
Education Development Center, Inc.
55 Chapel Street
Newton, MA 02458
(phone) 617 618 2562
(fax) 617 630 8439
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