Education/Telecon 2019-09-19

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