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Overview
Programs and Activities
–Building Awareness Conference
–Strategic Planning Institutes
-Curriculum Showcases
Regional Sites
Leadership Team
Partnerships
–Corporate
–Publishers
–School Districts
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LASER
Center Programs and Activities
The LASER Center is designed to help client school districts first initiate and
then implement five-year plans for K-8 science education reform. Representative
activities in the initiation phase include the following:
- At one-day Building Awareness Conferences, leadership teams
from client districts in a region come together to create a vision for science education
reform in their districts.
- At intensive, six-day LASER K-8 Science Education Strategic
Planning Institutes, leadership teams from client districts collaborate with regional
and nationally recognized experts and members of other teams to develop five-year
strategic plans to reform K-8 science education in their districts.
- At one-day K-8 Science Education Curriculum Showcases,
district representatives participate in interactive workshops and discussions that focus
on inquiry-centered, sequential science curriculum units developed with the support of the
National Science Foundation.
Implementation-phase activities, designed to help client school
districts as they put their five-year plans into effect,
will include the following:
One-day LASER Beginning Implementation Conferences will provide client districts in the
initial stages of implementation with strategies for the next level of science education
reform.
Several-day LASER Advanced Implementation Conferences will provide
district and community leaders with access to information, resources,
and assistance needed to implement and sustain an effective program,
including:
- Curriculum piloting, selection, and adoption
- Professional development for novice, competent, and expert
science teachers
- Materials support systems
- Assessment strategies
- Building administrative support
- Building community support
- Achieving literacy through science
At the National Science Teachers Association Annual National
Convention, the NSRC and the Association for Science Materials Centers
(ASMC) sponsor a LASER Networking Forum for members of the coalitions
from each Regional LASER Site.
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