[LTER-education] Nominate someone to join us at ASM!

[Alan Berkowitz]

Here are my thoughts about uses for this year’s funds, in rough priority
order.

1.       Ensuring that each LTER site is represented by someone from
education/outreach/engagement at the ASM.

2.       Support the REUxLTER initiative. We received funds from NSF (as a
supplement to the LNCO) to provide cross-site virtual sessions to
LTER-based REU students this summer, bring 15 REU’s to the ASM and plan a
longer-term initiative for REU across LTER (REUxLTER). Mentor scientists or
educators that could contribute to this effort but don’t have site funding
could be supported with the LTER Ed funds.

3.       Support the continued exploration/development of cross-site RET
programming. In this case, mentors, educators and most especially teachers
who have been LTER-based RET’s would be prime candidates for funding.

4.       Support the data literacy work. I recently met first hand with
folks (Dan Damelin, Chad Dorsey) from Concord Consortium of CODAP fame and
Andee Rubin from TERC. Though we opted NOT to have them present a workshop
for us at the ASM, I think their participation would be of great mutual
benefit.



If there is interest among the group in either 2 or 4, I’m happy to look
into potential applicants for the funds.



Thanks,



Alan



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Alan R. Berkowitz, Ph.D.

Head of Education

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Millbrook, NY 12545

Phone: (845) 677-7600 ext. 311

Fax: (845) 677-5976

berkowitza at caryinstitute.org



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*From:* education <education-bounces at lists.lternet.edu> *On Behalf Of *Caitlin
Potter
*Sent:* Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:54 AM
*To:* lteredureps at lternet.edu; education at lternet.edu
*Subject:* [LTER-education] Nominate someone to join us at ASM!



Dear LTER Ed Reps,



We (Kari, Jill, Caitlin and Sam) are writing to follow up about the $8K
allotted to the LTER education

committee each year. A few months ago we made a group decision to spend
these funds to bringing

people to the ASM who wouldn’t be able to make it otherwise. See this
documen
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/19uy_8xA10yU9hsSoX9EH3WCLo6gN09Xz-1WGXtAugYc/edit?usp=sharing>t
for more

information about the discussion.



For more information about our process for making decisions, see here for the
by-laws <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3xT0TaiQmt0NDdrbHRrdExubms>.



If you have someone in mind (e.g., a teacher, guest speaker) to bring to
ASM, please complete

this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeBy8e6LISva98Rb65fcOsK5ii329uCRqdrnqme8SaLHof6yw/viewform>
with a short paragraph of nomination by 12pm (PST) on July 9th. We know
it's a quick turnaround and apologize for that! We’ll organize the
nominations and share out to the whole group with a draft decision for
moving forward by the July 12th meeting.



We especially encourage nominations for people who will:

· Provide professional development to Ed reps

· Provide an important perspective to our discussions (e.g., teachers,
specific expertise

missing from our group)

· Bring on as a partner





Thanks so much for your nominations, and let us know if you have any
questions!



Best,

Caitlin, Kari, Jill and Sam



-- 

Caitlin Barale Potter, Ph.D

Education and Community Engagement Coordinator
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, University of Minnesota
Office: 612-301-2602     Website: cedarcreek.umn.edu/ed
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