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Hello all! I’m the Geology Program Manager at Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, GA.

Hello, I'm Danielle Garrett Associate Professor of Chemistry Education at Belmont University. I'm also highly involved in developing and running chemistry outreach and PD for students and teachers, respectively.

Welcome everyone to today's web seminar. NSTA is proud to partnering with ASTE in this seminar series.

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What differences do you notice when working with preservice teachers vs. inservice teachers in informal spaces?

Love these science-rich environments for preservice teachers!

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Are the pre-service teachers all undergraduate? How were these off-campus hands-on experiences built into a typical undergraduate course schedule? How often do pre-service teachers engage in these experiences in a given semester?

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Huge thanks, Loyola and partners! Wonderful work! I see some connections between your partnership and ours.

I'm wanting to find ways to bring wetland education to schools in North Louisiana.

I would love to start a partnership, especially to help strengthen geoscience education in Georgia at the Pk-12 level

Teachers see what they do in the classroom as supporting students' learning of science outside of school (not vice versa)

A children's museum in Athens, Ga.

Good Morning from the Philippines!!I would like to start a partnership about STEM education.

Starting a partnership with a new STEM Museum for Children in Minot, ND. Being built, will be completed in 2023.

What a spectacular setting!

It's gorgeous, Lara! Thanks!

Please share questions in the chat!

Yes, please, happy to answer questions:) Thanks!

Jared & Lyric, what advice do you have for folks who might want to start building partnerships like we've heard about here?

REACH OUT- yessss!

Great work Lamar/Bowden/Trinity/Bamberger team!

This is the first week in a month that I'm actually indoor. Lots of teacher pd and student outdoor learning this summer!

Thanks everyone! I am happy to connect and help anyone, I have friends all over the world that love the outdoors and to talk science

Melissa and I are also willing to help any way we can with connecting ideas to other academic disciplines.

Reaching out to any universities is a great step- Brian is a great example!

CRSE = culturally responsive and sustaining education

I'd love to hear more about how teachers see themselves as part of the places.

From your reviews, have you found many examples of sustainable community partnerships without large grant/outside funding?

Amazing you have your own teacher prep program! I am hoping to create partnerships between teacher prep programs and ISEs in my area for mentorships and working to determine how to begin.

@AndreaLucas, thank you, for your kind words and for being here.

NSTA had a great informal share-a-thon session at the recent conference, and ASTE has a division devoted to informal science ed as well -- both ways to connect with likeminded folks and brainstorm ideas/share challenges, etc

When working at Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, we establish a partnership with a local university instructor. Preservice teachers visit the Science Center and serve as trained volunteers within the Science Center. No grants required.

Something to think about is scientists often need to include outreach for their science grants so partnerships can sometimes leverage that (this is the case at AMNH)

I have seen targeted ads for AMNH’s MAT program! How did that program begin as an inroad in the community for earth science education?

I'm wondering if anyone from ISLEs can speak to internal collaboration between education experts and science content experts as parts of these programs and partnerships.

@Danielle that's great! Feel free to reach out with any questions.

To this day, almost 20 years later, the program continues.

I can’t wait for you all to come see us in Atlanta next year!

@Hannah - we started with Race to the top funding from NY state

There are some examples of this work with sustainability and partnerships in one of the videos we shared. I can share a link to that here in just a second.

NYS used those funds to start residencies like the one we now have

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bD27b4uY_73pF_xzhB5qbNf9c0da0liPT9sxZ5P4GU4/edit#slide=id.g13d0c4b77f5_0_0

Thank you all for your perspective on this!

@Hannah AMNH has a long-standing history of partnerships with teachers and higher education institutions. Our MAT residency program was designed to address the critical shortage of qualified and certified Earth science teachers in New York State

Such great conversation!

Reach out to your cities sustainable partners. We did and invited them to listen to students present. We then were able to reach out to them to speak to students. Your water companies are a great resource too.

@Flavio- a great way to start an informal/formal partnership

One of the challenges of partnerships is continuity as people move, change roles, etc. It's helpful when resources are shared in a repository and move forward with the changing team.

Lisa - this is one of the most fun parts of the partnership. We've had such fabulous conversations sitting down and thinking about what aspects of the curriculum the ISLEs can best help us to teach about. It really is important for us to make sure we connect regularly.

Yes passion is so key. Also also - not having a few people knowing the process/systems - having layers of staff who know the guiding principles of the partnership

Definitely a challenge, Ellen!

So true, fostering and sharing institutional knowledge is so critical

Sounds like having a system to develop teacher leaders for the partnership can be very helpful

One strategy is that if there is a program or course with preservice teachers is to make sure you have co-leaders, and each course has co-faculty

@Julie YEEEESSSSSS

Agreed Julie! Partners are often looking for schools willing to do work that is outside of the box and not a “traditional” field trip. I think being creative is key as well.

Julie, yes! It takes a community.

Andrea has also been awesome at helping us get in contact with people around San Antonio. Shout out to you! Thank you Andera!

Andrea.

Our AMNH grads have provided PL for other teachers on how to use museum resources, lead field trips, etc.

AMNH MAT program has a co-teaching model- where even our science content courses are with a museum scientist AND an educator

The preservice teachers co-teach with our partner residency school mentor teachers.

Being a preservice teacher who is brand new, it is super important to have the communication with my mentor teacher, administators, and the partners

AMNH - thanks for sharing info on the co-teaching models

With university partners, knowing the research protocols and getting on top of all the paperwork has been essential in being able to collect data from university students and cultural org partners.

LOVE that idea!

It is super awesome to see kids' behavior and their passion when we use the backward planning! I was able to experience this first-hand when the kids were working on the pollinator project!

Great tip Lara!

Folks might also be interested in the resources from CAISE: https://www.informalscience.org/

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Thank you for sharing so many wonderful details about all of your programs!

Thanks to all of you! :-)

Thank you for the informative webinar - much appreciated!

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Thank you all for your time tonight!

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Wonderful perspectives! Thank you to all our presenters!

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Thank y'all!! Very motivating to strengthen existing partnerships!

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Get out, reach out! Thanks y'all

We'd love to continue the conversation. Please reach out with any questions

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The 11/17 webinar isn't on the site yet?

Will be there soon, Julie! :)

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