• Elementary Summer Leadership Institutes
• Secondary Summer Science Leadership Institute
• NC-MSEN Statewide Institutes for Teaching Excellence
• e-Mentoring for Student Success
• Survey of High School Science Support Documents
• National Youth Science Camp Winners

Elementary Summer Leadership Institutes

The 2007 Elementary Summer Leadership Institutes will offer mathematics and science content professional development in concurrent sessions in different areas across the state.

June 24-29      Central Institute, Caraway Conference Center, Asheboro
July 22-27       Western Institute, Lake Junaluska, Waynesboro
August 5-10    Eastern Institute, Trinity Center, Salter Path

High School Summer Science Leadership Institute

Register now for the 2007 High School Summer Science Leadership Institute!

Focus: The focus of this years Institute is threefold: implementing the 2004 NC Standard Course of Study, the High School Exit Standards, and Science and the Graduation Project. We will share materials for Biology, Chemistry, Earth/ Environmental Science, Physical Science, and Physics for both standard and honors courses. Assessment will also be addressed.

School districts are encouraged to send a TEAM of teachers and a science supervisor representing the different high school courses with the expectation that these participants will provide updates for all science teachers in their district. Smaller school districts may wish to cooperate to send a regional team.

Registration Deadline: JUNE 15, 2007.

For more information, please visit http://community.learnnc.org/dpi/science/archives/2007/01/2007_high_schoo.php

Call for Proposals

High School Summer Science Leadership Institute
Riverfront Convention Center, New Bern, July 9-12, 2007
Poster Sessions and Presentations

Proposals Due: May 18

This year we have set up an application process to facilitate better organization of our sessions. Please fill out the attached application by saving the MS Word document, typing your response and submit by e-mailing to eehasse@dpi.state.nc.us. You may submit a proposal for a poster presentation or a 90 minute session or both. Please fill out a separate application for each session you propose. Proposals are due by May 18, 2007. We will select presenters and notify all applicants by May 25, 2007.

North Carolina Mathematics and Science Education Network (NC-MSEN) Statewide Institutes for Teaching Excellence (SITE)

SITE: Biology

This five-day institute, with follow-up sessions online and at NCSTA in November, will focus on selected elements of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for Biology. It will address critical areas recommended by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction: content, misconceptions, and instructional strategies designed to improve student achievement. Other foci are embedding literacy into instruction and using concept maps and other strategies for assessment purposes. The NC DPI-produced Biology support documents will be provided to all participants.

Module I: Energy and Matter in Living Systems: Respiration, Photosynthesis, Energy Transfer in the Ecosystem (including conservation of energy and conservation of matter).

Module II: Genetics and Evolution: Gene Regulation, Evolution and Adaptation (including unity and diversity of life).

These workshops were developed in cooperation with the NC Department of Public Instruction, who is also co-sponsoring the workshops.

Please visit http://education.uncc.edu/cmste/SITE/biology.html for a complete listing of locations, dates, and contact information.

eMSS (e-Mentoring for Student Success)

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Division of Secondary Education: Mathematics and Science is excited to have been given another opportunity to partner with The New Teacher Center of Santa Cruz California and Montana State University in offering e-mentoring to beginning middle grades and secondary science teachers in North Carolina.

eMSS (e-Mentoring for Student Success) is a high quality, content-based, online mentoring program that is designed to increase beginning science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge, to integrate with their districts' induction programs, and to provide ongoing mentor professional development to veteran teachers. This will be accomplished through one-on-one mentor to mentee relationships. Mentors will be veteran science teachers (working or retired) who have expertise teaching the same content and grade level as the mentee. Mentors will receive a $1400 stipend for participation in the program for one year.

Deadline for mentor applications: May 15, 2007

For more information and the online application visit: http://emss.nsta.org and click on “North Carolina”.

Seeking Mentees…

Would you like to…

• have an experienced science teacher as your personal mentor
• participate in content-focused professional development
• access a vast array of science resources
• attend an optional information and orientation program for North Carolina eMSS participants in the Fall, after the mentoring program commences. More information will be sent in the acceptance email.

The Division of Secondary Education: Mathematics and Science, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, partnered with e-Mentoring for Student Success (eMSS), is recruiting 1st – 3rd year middle and high school science teachers to participate in an innovative online mentoring project. Mentees will work online with experienced science educators, research scientists and other new teachers.

Applications will be accepted as long as Mentors are available.

For more information and the online application visit: http://emss.nsta.org and click on “North Carolina”.

Survey of High School Science Support Documents

We need your assistance in completing an evaluation of our NEW High

School Science Curriculum Support Documents! We depend on your feedback for improvement! Don't worry - it is a very short survey - it should take no more than 10 minutes to complete (and that's if you write long comments!). All individual responses are confidential. Please fill out the survey AND help us get the survey to every NC science educator who uses our support documents by forwarding this information as appropriate.

To complete the Survey, go to

http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB225ZP4SP3GT

This is a survey to assess the usefulness of the High School Science

Support Documents, particularly the new edition which became available

Fall 2006 to support the 2004 Science Curriculum. If you have not yet seen these documents please go to: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/science/scos/2004/

Each document is linked to the NC Standard Course of Study for that course. The new documents are also available for purchase in notebook-ready form from DPI Publications at: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/publications/

National Youth Science Camp Winners

Governor Easley announced that Genevieve Pike of Wilson and Richard Ianniello of Candler have been selected as promising young scientific leaders in North Carolina’s 2006 high school graduating class. At the invitation of Governor Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, they will participate as delegates in the 43rd session of the National Youth Science Camp held near the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia. Laura Mayes of Durham and Camille Beasley of Raleigh have been selected as alternates.

Genevieve Pike is a senior at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. She has attended Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics at Appalachian State University. Genevieve is also a National Merit Scholarship commended student and a semi-finalist for the Park Scholarship at North Carolina State University. In addition, she is involved in a multitude of athletic, community, and service activities.

Richard Ianiello is a senior at Enka High School. He is an AP Honors Scholar and attended the High School Honors Institute at the University of Colorado School of Engineering. An Eagle Scout and an accomplished musician, Richard has also been involved with the CLIMBE project at Montreat College. He has held numerous leadership positions in the school and community, and has been involved in many service activities on a variety of levels.

Established in 1963 as a part of West Virginia’s Centennial Celebration, the National Youth Science Camp is an annual summer forum where two delegates representing each state exchange ideas with leading scientists and other professionals from academic and corporate worlds. Lectures and hands-on research projects are presented by scientists from across the United States who work on some of the most provocative topics in science today - topics such as fractal geometry, the human genome project, global climate change, the history of the universe, the fate of our rain forests, and robotics. Delegates to the NYSC are challenged to explore new areas in the biological and physical sciences, art, and music with resident staff members. Delegates also present seminars covering their own areas of research and interest.

The National Youth Science Camp’s diverse academic program is complemented by an outdoor recreation program, which leverages the Science Camp’s location in the Monongahela National Forest. The Science Camp’s outdoor program offers backpacking, caving, rock climbing, mountain biking and kayaking.

Genevieve and Richard will be flown to Charleston, West Virginia, on Sunday, June 25 and will return home on Sunday, July 16, 2006, after participating in this provocative educational program. The National Youth Science Foundation®, based in Charleston, West Virginia, covers all expenses, including travel. More information is available online at www.nysf.com and www.nysc.org.