Contents

• Introduction
• Who Should Attend
• What This Workshop Can Do For You
• Faculty
• Deadlines and Registration Process
  
• Program Highlights
• Venue and Accommodations
  
• Transportation
• For More Information
• Application

Introduction

Spend three days in beautiful Boulder, Colorado! This workshop offers participants the tools necessary to design and implement effective, standards-based workshops for formal and informal educators working in:

• Schools
• Museums and planetaria
• Youth programs
• Nature centers and outdoor programs
• Professional societies

Who Should Attend

Scientists and Education & Public Outreach (EPO) managers in space and earth science who:

• Have some experience developing workshops for educators.
• Are based at universities, NASA centers and flight projects, research institutions, and government agencies.
• Are familiar with the National Science Education Standards.

Educators interested in working with scientists and EPO managers to develop high-quality workshops on space and earth science topics.

Participants are also strongly encouraged to apply in teams of two from each organization. Experience shows a greater impact and more effective post-workshop implementation of best practices when colleagues can attend the workshop together. Please consider bringing a colleague!

What This Workshop Can Do For You

• Deepens your knowledge about how to design professional development experiences for educators that meet real educational needs and are consistent with science education reform.
• Creates opportunities for networking with educators and other scientists engaged in the professional development of science educators.
• Provides an opportunity to review your existing professional development programs and generate ideas for how to strengthen and improve them.

We will ask participants to elaborate on their professional development (PD) prior experience in the application process. We will also request that participants bring an actual or proposed PD agenda to the workshop for critiquing purposes.

Faculty

Jim Short, Biological Sciences Curriculum Study
Cherilynn Morrow, Space Science Institute

Deadlines and Registration Process

**The registration fee includes the poster session reception, conference materials (including a source book), continental breakfasts, and luncheons each day.

• Hotel Reservation Deadline: February 25, 2004
  Phone Number 1-800-338-5407

Applications are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. You can register and pay online using a credit card through a secure server. If you do not wish to pay with a credit card you should contact Christy Edwards at edwardcl@colorado.edu, 720-974-5824. Apply here.

Program Highlights

The workshop is limited to 20-30 participants, which allows a deeper, more involved experience than in larger conference settings. The agenda includes:

• Day 1: Teaching Science as Inquiry: A Professional Development Experience Devised by the SCI Center at BSCS
• Day 2: A Framework for Designing Professional Development for Teachers of Science (as devised by Susan Loucks-Horsley and colleagues)
• Day 3: Applying Best Practices to Your Work as a Professional Developer of Educators
• A reception/participant poster session on the evening of Day 2
• This workshop is being designed in collaboration with the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study's (BSCS) SCI program, renowned experts in providing professional development for professional developers of science teachers.

Venue and Accomodations

The workshop will be held at the Boulder Broker Inn. A block of rooms has been set aside for workshop participants. Rooms must be reserved by February 25. Please make your reservations with hotel directly at 303-444-3330 or 1-800-338-5407, and mention the Space Science Institute Workshop when making your reservation to receive the group rate. Please plan to arrive on Wednesday evening, March 17, as the workshop begins early on Thursday morning. Plan to depart no sooner than 4 pm on Saturday. The workshop officially ends with lunch on Saturday, March 20. Denver International airport recommends that you arrive two hours prior to your departure time, and the airport is about an hour's drive from the hotel.

Transportation

If arriving from out-of-state, consult your travel agent to fly into Denver International Airport (DIA), an hour's drive from Boulder. One-hour shuttle service to Boulder from Denver International Airport is available for about $25.00 each way on Super Shuttleor Boulder Express. Check-in near the rental car counters on the airport's baggage claim level. For reservations:

For More Information

For more information, please contact:

Christy Edwards
Space Science Institute
4750 Walnut Street, Suite 205
Boulder, CO 80301
Phone: 720-974-5824
FAX: 720-974-5837
Email: edwardcl@colorado.edu