September 19, 2019 @ 2pm ET
Participants: Becky Reid, Elizabeth Joyner, Margaret Mooney, LuAnn Dahlman, Megan Carter, Katy Rico
Agenda:
1. News from the Program Committee:
- Meetings committee is spinning up - first meeting 9/30
- Still no definite Summer Meeting location - but will be somewhere in the Northeast
- Asheville, NC? Week of July 6th or 27th?
- Ed Committee is hoping for the week of the 27th
- AGU
- Call out for Ignite@AGU talks Hosted at Planet Labs Headquarters
- Present at GIFT Workshop? Shelley as the Scientist? Becky with block coding? Becky will talk to Shelley about this
- Climate Explorer for GIFT - LuAnn may find a scientist partner and present
- Call for Community Fellows - due 10/7
- What can we ask of a fellow? What can we do to enhance their growth?
- Inventory & document education offerings throughout ESIP
- NGSS - Phenomenon
- Preservice Teacher? Elizabeth may have some contacts. Can we bring in a different type of fellow? Current teacher?
- Margaret will begin our application, Becky will submit
2. VSTA Meeting in Vermont—Not attending
3. Winter Meeting - Planning 2 working sessions
- January 7th-9th in Bethesda, MD (Bethesda North Marriott). More info to be shared at https://2020esipwintermeeting.sched.com/.
4. Identifying a school in D.C. area (or learning organization!)
- Elizabeth knows the Science Supervisor for Prince George County School Division in DC area. She will continue to try to make contact
- Put out word to ESIP-All that we are looking for a school in DC
- Ask Jim Acker at Goddard for possible contacts
5. Two sessions @ Winter Meeting
- Work with teachers to determine needs, what we can offer as support, and next steps
- Big Data - role of BD, Careers, why students should be data literate - lead to white paper for ourselves - strategic planning for ESIP Ed & data.
6. Cluster Plan Template (Could be useful for us as well) http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Cluster_Plan_Template
7. Haslem… Got Pocket Lab Airs attempting to get momentum going with one of our Middle School science classes to create some lesson plans. I am working to create an interactive google map that we will put data on and possibly create ArcGIS story maps about the data points and a spreadsheet…. Link below: Please explore and let me know what you think https://drive.google.com/open?id=1l9pGYH_WLeNdAD7a3TclYw7YR6eR8_wl&usp=sharing
