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Jane Horwitz

Submitted by Jane Horwitz on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 9:36am
Jane Horwitz
Director, Science Outreach Initiative
University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences

Jane Horwitz is the Director of the Science Outreach Initiative for the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where she helps to link STEM faculty and other researchers to educational opportunities in K-12 schools and the community. The office grew out of the Penn Science Teacher Institute, an NSF-funded initiative offering masters degrees and other professional development opportunities for middle and high school science teachers. Prior to assuming this role, she led the Penn-Merck Collaborative for Science Education in the Graduate School of Education, providing programming for K-8 educators from Philadelphia public schools. She has degrees in botany (A.B., Smith College) and science education (M.S.T., University of Pennsylvania), and a certificate in non-profit administration from Penn’s Fels Institute of Government. She is the former Director of Education of the New Jersey State Aquarium at Camden; and has also worked at The Franklin Institute, Penn’s Morris Arboretum and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where she was involved with both school and general public programming and exhibits.

Subject Areas of Interest:
  • astronomy
  • biology
  • chemistry
  • environmental science
  • geology
  • math
  • physics
  • psychology

Education Areas of Interest:
  • science content-specific pedagogy courses
  • social justice education
  • education in high need schools
  • urban education
  • interdisciplinary approaches
  • project-based learning
  • gender and education
  • retention
  • organizational culture
  • professional expertise
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Mary Lee Prescott-Griffin

Submitted by Mary Lee Presco... on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 9:36am
Mary Lee Prescott-Griffin
Dept. Chair and Professor of Education
Wheaton College

Mary Lee is Chair and Professor of Education at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where she is a friend and supporter of active, engaged STEM education projects and initiatives, while teaching in her field, literacy. She teaches a number of literacy-related courses and supervises early childhood and elementary student teachers. In addition to an active teaching and research agenda – most recently focused on the impact of mindfulness and stabilized attention on readers and writers – Mary Lee regularly conducts workshops and teacher trainings in the U.S.A. and abroad. She is the author of mindfulness and literacy-related articles and three books -- Writer to Writer: Fluency and Craft in Multilingual Classrooms (2008), Reader to Reader: Building Independence Through Peer Partnerships (2005), and Fluency In Focus: Comprehension Strategies for All Young Readers (2004).

Education Areas of Interest:
  • social justice education
  • urban education
  • interdisciplinary approaches
  • project-based learning
  • gender and education
  • global/international education
  • recruitment
  • retention
  • support structures
  • organizational culture
  • professional expertise
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Lisa Smulyan

Submitted by Lisa Smulyan on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 9:36am
Lisa Smulyan
Professor, Educational Studies
Swarthmore College

Lisa Smulyan is Professor of Educational Studies at Swarthmore College, where she teaches courses in educational foundations, adolescence, gender and education, and comparative education. Her publications include Balancing Acts: Women Principals at Work; Collaborative Action Research: A Developmental Process; and several articles. Her research focuses on teacher leadership, classroom-based research with teachers, life/case history as a basis for understanding school practice, and investigations into the role of gender in teachers’ and administrators’ work experience.  During the past several years she has worked on various CETE grants, including one to support first and second year CETE teachers in the Philadelphia area (through the Philadelphia New Teacher Network) and another to support mid-career urban teacher leaders in Philadelphia, Boston and New York City.



Education Areas of Interest:
  • social justice education
  • education in high need schools
  • urban education
  • gender and education
  • global/international education
  • support structures
  • organizational culture
  • professional expertise
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Daniel Bisaccio

Submitted by Daniel Bisaccio on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 9:36am
Daniel Bisaccio
Director of Science Education Education Department
Brown University

Dan Bisaccio was hired by Brown University’s Education Department in March, 2008 and is the graduate Director of Science Education (Master of Arts in Teaching) and lecturer in education. Prior to joining Brown University’s Education Department, Dan Bisaccio was hired as the Math/ Science/ Technology Division Head charged to develop and implement a program to meet the needs of all students for the 21st Century at Souhegan High School (a public school in Amherst, New Hampshire). SHS has received a number of state and national awards for offering public school students’ authentic research and interdisciplinary opportunities in academic areas as well for developing a science program that has 90% of all students graduating with at least 4 years of science credits. At SHS, Dan has taught advanced biology, tropical ecology, and a Conservation Biology & Literature senior seminar as well as developing and teaching ongoing professional development workshops for teachers and interns. Dan also leads a number of professional institutes for science teachers around the nation annually. His teaching methodology and research has been highlighted in several books, on National Public Radio, and on a CBS TV special focused on public education. He was an adjunct faculty member at Keene State College where he taught geology for eighteen years and continues at Northeastern University teaching a tropical terrestrial ecology course at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute / Panama each February. Dan’s on-going research with the Smithsonian Institution’s Biodiversity & Monitoring Program involves secondary, college students, and teachers with authentic field research opportunities at several tropical sites in Central and South America. His work has been recognized by the United Nations Environmental Program (Convention on Biological Diversity) where he is an active contributor to their international biological diversity education outreach committee and has presented, with his students, pedagogical as well as biological research at United Nations Conferences on Biological Diversity (Montreal, CA – May, 2007; May, 2008 -Bonn, Germany). Dan has been the recipient of many national, state, regional teaching awards – including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching as well as authoring several articles on educational pedagogy and practice.

Subject Areas of Interest:
  • biology
  • computer science
  • engineering
  • environmental science
  • physics

Education Areas of Interest:
  • science content-specific pedagogy courses
  • social justice education
  • education in high need schools
  • urban education
  • interdisciplinary approaches
  • project-based learning
  • global/international education
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Ecological Imaginings: Anne's Reading Notes/Resources

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 9:13pm

Reading for Ecological Imaginings, Fall 2012
Allen, Paula Gunn. "Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale." The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986. 222-24 (on the political implications of  narrative structure):
    * tribal habit of mind toward equilibrium of all factors
    * even distribution of value among all elements in a field
    * no single element foregrounded...no heroes, no villains
    * no chorus, no "setting"...no minor characters...
    * foreground slips along from one focal point to another until
      all the pertinent elements in the ritual conversation have had their say...
    * focus of the action shifts...there is no "point of view"....

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The Rhetorics of Silence

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 6:10pm

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Lighthouses and Laboratories

Submitted by jrlewis on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 8:41pm

Everyday

She ventures out

To Brant Point Lighthouse,

Dr. Grobstein brought her up to lighthouse keeping.

Here the storyteller’s problem is the sound;

There the sailor’s problem is the sea.

To see her, an officer ducks

Out on the deck.

 

Their alchemy

Is tertia non datur.

The third is not given for

Turning base metal into gold.

Her skin tans golden while waiting for him.

She is true, and he only likes true stories.

He learns that Wellington’s are good

For climbing rain slicked boulders,

Other details and facts. 

 

Every night

He litters his room’s

Floor with facts about her.

The facts are chirping like crickets,

He has an infestation keeping him awake.

Heading to the toilet, he stubs his toe on a fact

He needs a toad.  An anurian she would say,

A story to swallow legs and eyes

And all.

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Welcome!

Submitted by Ann Dixon on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 8:06am

Welcome to the CETE Conference, hosted at Bryn Mawr College May 30 - June 1, 2012. I'm Ann Dixon, co-founder and webmaster of Serendip, and pleased to host online conversations among CETE participants during and after the conference. Serendip has been focused on interdisciplinary inquiry since its inception 18 years ago, and I hope you'll have the time to take a look around on Serendip while you're here. Some of the exhibits that might interest you are:

Summer Institutes for K-12 Teachers - with materials and resources spanning more than 20 years
/local/suminst/

Playground Activities - perhaps not what you expect
/playground/

Alice Lesnick's Empowering Learners: Theory and Practice of Extra-Classroom Teaching - /exchange/education/handbook

Hands-on Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Students and its companion resource, More Minds-on Activities for Teaching Biology -
/sci_edu/waldron/

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CETE

Submitted by admin on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 7:30am
Consortium for Excellence in Teacher Education

The Consortium for Excellence in Teacher Education is building a network for excellence in STEM teacher education at liberal arts institutions. This discussion begins at the spring 2012 conference held at Bryn Mawr College with support from the National Science Foundation, and will continue and expand following the conference. 

Conference participants all have accounts for logging in and posting. If you would like to request an account to join the discussion or if you need technical assistance, please contact us. 

 


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Emily Dickinson's Poems on Silence

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 12:50pm

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