NISEN Convenes Fourth Annual Conference

Building Bridges IV is scheduled for September 11–12, 2000, at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. The fourth annual conference of the Northeast Informal Science Education Network (NISEN) is cosponsored by the Regional Alliance and the Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS).

The conference will offer a blend of workshop formats that are designed to meet the needs of both entry level and experienced informal educators. Topics for the intensive three- and six-hour sessions include:

  • Grantmaking: Finding Funds & Writing Successful Proposals

  • Program and Exhibit Evaluation

  • Attracting a Broader Audience

  • Interactive Theater: Bringing Science to Life

  • Designing Professional Development for Ourselves and Teachers

  • Inquiry: Introductory and Advanced
  • Participants can also attend shorter 75-minute sessions on the following topics:
  • Marketing Techniques

  • Serving a Multigenerational Audience: Is Your Site Family Friendly?

  • Connecting to Standards

  • Volunteers: Recruiting, Managing and Retaining

  • The Parent Involvement Project: Connecting to Your Community

  • After-School Programs

  • Managing in a Context of Continual Change
  • As always, the conference will provide opportunities for networking and sharing resources with colleagues from across the northeast region.

    For more information about NISEN and the conference, contact Molly Singsen at TERC, molly_singsen@terc.edu; or Patrice Garvin at MITS, 308 Congress Street, Suite 5D, Boston, MA 02210, (617) 695-9771, mits@world.std.com.




    Alliance Access
    Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2000

    In this issue:

    Facing Equity: Facing Ourselves

    The Online Science-athon

    Network Science, A Decade Later

    Promoting Schoolwide Reform

    Faculty Study Groups

    Heterogeneous Versus Homogenous Classes

    NISEN Convenes Fourth Annual Conference

    Access to Resources

    Science-By-Design Series

    NCTM Standards 2000