NASSMC: Programs

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style="color:white;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920/http://www.nassmc.org/contact.html">contact nassmc</a></b></font></div></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="154" valign="top" width="83%"> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="1" width="97%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1240" valign="top"> <p class="style3"><font color="#003366" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="nassmc"><b>One dimension of NASSMC's work is to undertake projects and partnerships that test and disseminate processes and materials that are designed to advance the work of its member coalitions. Such projects, conducted with funding from national agencies and private foundations, are:</b></span></font> </p> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> <font color="#003366"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920/http://www.nassmc.org/linkingleaders.html">Linking Leaders for Systemic Improvement</a> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font color="#003366"></font></b></font></font></b></font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font color="#003366"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920/http://www.nassmc.org/pfsproject.html">NASA Explorer Schools Partnerships for Sustainability</a></font></b></font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920/http://www.nassmc.org/summits.html">NASSMC State Summits Implementation Program (NSSIP)</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920/http://www.nassmc.org/nbs.html">The NASSMC Briefing Service</a></b></font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920/http://www.nassmc.org/grant_seeker/gsintro.html">GrantSeeker</a></b></font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="#4"><font color="#003366">NASSMC/Annenberg Media Public Awareness and Engagement Project</font></a></b></font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="#3"><font color="#003366">Systems Thinking</font></a></b></font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="#8"><font color="#003366">Speakers Bureau</font></a></b></font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="#6"><font color="#003366">Light, Sound and Instructional Communication: A Seminar for Educators </font></a></b></font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="#7">Sustaining States' Standards-Based Reform Initiatives </a></b></font></span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> </font></span> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3" width="100%"> <tbody> </tbody> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><hr> <span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a name="4" id="4"></a>NASSMC/Annenberg Media Public Awareness and Engagement Project</b></font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"> <span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920/http://www.learner.org/" target="_blank">Annenberg Media</a> </strong> in partnership with NASSMC and its member coalitions, </font></span>will work to assist the state organizations in the implementation of their Public Awareness Action Plans designed to promote public engagement in the improvement of mathematics and science education. <table width="50%" border="0" align="right" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="10"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#E5E9EB"><p><span class="style2"><strong>What is Annenberg Media?</strong><br> Annenberg Media is a unit of The Annenberg Foundation. Annenberg Media's mission is to advance excellent teaching in all disciplines throughout American K-12 schools. Former names of Annenberg Media are: Annenberg/CPB, The Annenberg/CPB Project, and The Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project. </span></p> <table width="10%" border="0" align="right" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td><div align="center"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><b><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920/http://www.learner.org/" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920im_/http://www.nassmc.org/graphics/annenberg.gif" border="0"></a></b></font></div></td> </tr> </table> <p class="style2">Annenberg Media pursues this mission by funding and broadly distributing multimedia resources for teachers to help them improve their own teaching practice and understanding of their subject. Annenberg Media makes use of telecommunications technologies—the Internet, including broadband video streaming, and satellite television broadcast—as well as hard copy media to disseminate these multimedia resources, ensuring that they reach as many teachers as possible.</p></td> </tr> </table> <p>The assistance of Annenberg Media is to be built around facilitating teacher access to the Annenberg Media programming through the Annenberg Media Channel. Working with the state coalitions, Annenberg Media can increase the participation of schools and, consequently, extend the reach of its programming. In some cases this may include access to the Channel through coalition websites or a related broadcast venue. Annenberg Media offers to jointly announce its collaboration with a state coalition thereby promoting public awareness of the coalition and its activities, and of the professional development programming for math and science teachers offered through the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920/http://www.learner.org/channel/broadband/video.html" target="_blank">Annenberg Channel</a>. </p> <p>As an initial step, Annenberg Media might issue a joint press release with the coalition and NASSMC or participate in a press conference announcing their collaboration. The coalition would, in turn, promote the use of the Annenberg Channel in schools across the state and work to assist schools in acquiring the capability to receive the programming from the satellite feed or the online stream. </p> <p>Where feasible, a team, composed of coalition leaders, NASSMC staff, invited colleagues from sister state coalitions might meet with Annenberg Media representatives to explore enhancing public awareness of critical issues in mathematics and science instruction and to develop strategies. Of course public recognition of the organization through its activities is a concurrent objective. Successful strategies employed by other states might be examined also and tailored to meet specific current needs and projections. The team might assist also by suggesting and connecting support resources. </p> <p><em><strong>Interested coalitions will be asked to submit a brief proposal to NASSMC outlining the primary goals and objectives of a public awareness campaign and expressing willingness to commit coalition time and resources to the project.</strong></em> NASSMC will share these proposals with Annenberg Media to determine how both organizations might support the plan. NASSMC will commit staff time and limited travel funds for meetings. Annenberg Media brings to the table its excellent programming and its commitment to enhance the quality of science and mathematics teaching. </p> <p>For more information please contact us at: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920/mailto:info@nassmc.org">info@nassmc.org</a></p> </p> <p><a href="#top"><img alt="back to top" border="0" height="16" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920im_/http://www.nassmc.org/graphics/top.gif" width="100"></a> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><hr> <span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="3" id="3"></a><b>Systems Thinking</b></font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="177" valign="top"> <p class="body" style3><em>"Organizations are perfectly designed and operated to produce the results they get."</em></p> <p>The NASSMC Seminar in Systems Thinking was developed in cooperation with NASA to assist state and local partnerships in designing comprehensive, coordinated improvement plans for mathematics, science and technology education. Past participants have included representatives from state government, from both K-12 and higher education and from the business community. Initially available only to NASSMC member coalitions, the seminar is now open to math and science partnerships, professional organizations and other interested groups.</p> <p>This interactive seminar utilizes the national resources of NASSMC and those of NASA, the National Science Teachers Association and Annenberg Media to examine design strategies for addressing comprehensive change in math, science and technology education. Critical Path planning methods are introduced. Seminars may be scheduled at any location and cover 8 to 10 contact hours over a period of 1 to 2 days and are tailored to local needs.</p> <p>To any complex system, substantive change may be indistinguishable from catastrophic damage. Such changes are quickly "repaired" in the course of normal operation. All systems, whether they are biological, mechanical, electronic or social will develop patterns of response. They construct defense mechanisms, they maintain equilibrium and they resist change. How then can we effectively alter our education systems? What works and what doesn't work? What are the elements and primary sub-systems of an education system? How do these various system elements interact with each other? What happens when we change one of these elements?</p> <p>NASSMC's seminar in systems thinking addresses these questions and offers a way of seeing, a common language for analysis, and effective methods for building community among diverse groups. Systems thinking recognizes that the environment of all systems is other systems, that human systems function in dynamic environments and that real and lasting change requires a comprehensive and carefully structured approach.</p> <p>The total cost to participating groups is $2000. Organizations are encouraged to seek corporate sponsorship to subsidize this fee. The program is conducted by NASSMC. Please direct inquiries to:</p> <p>Jim McMurtray<br> E-mail: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920/mailto:jmcmurtray@nassmc.org">jmcmurtray@nassmc.org</a><br> Phone: 703-516-5973 </p> <p><a href="#top"><img alt="back to top" border="0" height="16" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920im_/http://www.nassmc.org/graphics/top.gif" width="100"></a> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><hr> <span class="nassmc"><a name="6" id="6"></a><strong>Light, Sound and Instructional Communication: A Seminar for Educators</strong></span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"> <p>Standard teacher preparation focuses primarily on educational psychology and preparation in the content areas. Only rarely however, does it also expose communication. If teaching may be regarded as an art, then as in any other artistic endeavor, there is a science to be mastered.</p> <p>Whatever we may know or speculate about human learning, it is always assumed that teachers understand the fundamentals of human communication and that they will intuitively know how to manage the learning environment. This may not always be the case. The ability to effectively manipulate light and sound is critical to successful teaching.</p> <p>The program, initially developed at a NASA field center through collaboration between Earth remote sensing and education specialists, examines how effective management of light and sound may improve instructional communication. The program addresses such questions as: <ul><li>What does "adequate classroom lighting" mean? </li> <li>How can classroom teachers address auditory noise problems?</li><li>What are the elements of highly effective visual communication?</li> <li>How do we select the sensory channel for sending an instructional message? </li> <li>How do we know if that message is being received?</li></ul> </p> This one-day seminar is appropriate for educators and administrators at all levels. Handout materials include a source list, a CD with visuals and notes from the introductory presentation, and a checklist for evaluating instructional environments. The ideas are presented in a collegial atmosphere. Participants engage in active discussion of the ideas presented and are encouraged to examine additional sources and to form their own conclusions. A fee of $2000 covers the cost of travel, expenses, materials and staff time.</span></p> <p>For more information please contact us at: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920/mailto:info@nassmc.org">info@nassmc.org</a></p> </p> <p><a href="#top"><img alt="back to top" border="0" height="16" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920im_/http://www.nassmc.org/graphics/top.gif" width="100"></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><hr> <span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a name="8" id="8"></a>Speakers Bureau</b></font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="177" valign="top"> NASSMC has provided speakers for its member coalitions on a wide variety of topics related to <b>mathematics and science education, education systemic reform, building community, general systems theory, engineering change, systems design, content standards, science and mathematics curricula and instructional strategies.</b> NASSMC's Speakers Bureau draws from present and former staff members, state coalition directors and allied Washington area professional organizations. In many cases speakers are provided to NASSMC affiliates at no charge. However, fees and/or expenses are charged by some speakers.</span> </p> <p>NASSMC will also assist member coalitions and other groups in securing nationally recognized experts or well-known personalities from the government, education, business and communication fields. </p> <p>For more information please contact us at: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920/mailto:info@nassmc.org">info@nassmc.org</a></p> </p> <p><a href="#top"><img alt="back to top" border="0" height="16" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920im_/http://www.nassmc.org/graphics/top.gif" width="100"></a> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><hr> <span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a name="7" id="7"></a>Sustaining States' Standards-Based Reform Initiatives </b></font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"> <span class="nassmc"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sustaining States' Standards-Based Reform is a broad array of activities that serve NASSMC's goal of providing tailored technical assistance, services, and resources to its member coalitions. Sustaining States' includes providing flow-through funds from NASSMC grants, supporting member coalitions' participation in national meetings, facilitating coalitions' application for systemic change grants (e.g., grants from the Aerospace States Association), providing consulting at in-state meetings, developing and disseminating sample video and print materials, and maintaining and expanding the resources of this website. Sustaining work currently is supported by grants from the ExxonMobil Foundation, The Medtronic Foundation, and SciMathMN (the NASSMC affiliate in Minnesota).</font></span> </p><p>For more information please contact us at: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920/mailto:info@nassmc.org">info@nassmc.org</a></p> </p> <p><a href="#top"><img alt="back to top" border="0" height="16" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206010920im_/http://www.nassmc.org/graphics/top.gif" width="100"></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr>   </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </body> </html>

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