Professional Development Workshops

Monday, June 29

As a pre-conference treat, we’ve scheduled a day of professional development opportunities.  You may choose from six wide-ranging topics and learn from the best!  All six offerings will be onsite at Asilomar from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. on Monday.  Pre-registration and a fee to cover facility rental, snacks and lunch is required.
 

Grant Writing 101 Location: Curlew So, you think you need a grant.  Are you and/or your organization ready to apply for a grant?  If you are, where do you find grant opportunities?  How do you know if an opportunity is right for you?  How do you write a strong proposal?  Is it all about the writing? This workshop will answer all these questions and more.  Designed for the person who is about to write her first grant proposal as well as the individual who has written several proposals, you’ll walk away with helpful tools, resources and tips.
	Presenter: Deborah Goldstein is a professional grant writer with more than ten years experience in the field.  She has worked on foundation, corporate, and government grant proposals for universities, a science center, and most recently, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and has raised over $20 million during that time.
The ABC’s of Program Evaluation Location: Triton Do you need to conduct a program evaluation but are not sure how to get started?  Join us as we develop a logic model and evaluation plan for one of your environmental education programs.  We’ll also explore the advantages and disadvantages of surveys, tests, interviews, observations and alternative assessments.  You’ll learn how to write good survey and interview questions for one of your own programs. Prior to the workshop, we’ll contact all the participants and ask you to bring program agendas, curricula, lesson plans, evaluation tools, and other program related materials.  This will help you come prepared to develop an evaluation instrument and pilot test it with other workshop participants.  We’ll provide participants with lots of examples and guidelines for developing good evaluations.  Each participant will receive individual feedback on the instrument they develop. This workshop is being offered by the marine and environmental education evaluation professionals with BridgeWater Education Consulting (www.BridgeWaterEC.com).
	Presenters: Dr. Beth Day-Miller has advanced degrees in marine science and marine science education and has worked for more than 20 years designing and conducting professional development workshops for various adult audiences.  In addition, she has over 13 years of experience conducting evaluations of education program.
	Janice Easton has spent more than 15 years designing, facilitating and evaluating programs for environmental educators.  She co-developed the Applied Environmental Education Program Evaluation (AEEPE) online course for the Environmental Education and Training Partnership at the University of Wisconsin-Steven Points and has remained an instructor since its launch in 2004.
Picturing Science Location: Acacia How do you integrate science, art and literacy?  This special one-day workshop will highlight activities from Picturing Science that build science, language, and visual literacy around a central thematic question related to the Ocean Literacy Essential Principles.  Participants will have the opportunity to engage in activities that focus on scientific skills, art techniques, and language building which are all connected to a central theme. The Picturing Science project, developed by Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, represents a way to incorporate multidisciplinary instruction in science, language literacy, and visual arts to support environmental literacy.  The goals of the project are for students to look at their environment through new perspectives and engage creatively with scientific process and content.  By combining instructional strategies that engage the whole brain, we put science into a more complete human perspective.  The thematic nature of the program demonstrates how many different ways of thinking can contribute to the essential question.  By bringing together art and science, creativity and intuitive thinking combine with evidence-based analytical thinking. Picturing Science students produce a showcase of work that demonstrates their ability to connect scientific ideas to their world.  Using a variety of artistic techniques that emphasize observation and careful representation of what is seen will enhance the skills also emphasized in the scientific process.  Writing helps encourage critical thinking, and students are guided through the creative writing process to develop concepts and words about their images.  Students must synthesize information and think critically to determine how to build their visual and written showcase of the scientific theme.  The incorporation of creative and technological aspects helps to build a well-rounded individual who is better able to apply creative problem solving, just as professional scientists do.
	Presenters: Erin Baumgartner is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Western Oregon University.  As a science educator, she develops curriculum that emphasizes scientific literacy through authentic scientific practice.
	Lori Phillips is currently the Director of Pacific Center for Arts and Humanities in Education at PREL  She teaches education courses in visual and verbal literacy in Micronesia, American Samoa and Hawaii.  Lori is the co-author of the Picturing Science program with Dr. Kavita Rao.
	Elizabeth Kumabe-Maynard is an extension agent with Hawaii Sea Grant. She is the program leader of the Hanauma Bay Education Program.  Her areas of expertise include environmental education and community outreach.
Cracking the Diversity Code Location: Willow Inn Living Room Getting the right messages to the right audience is critical to the success of your organization’s mission.  But audiences are changing and becoming more ethnically and socially diverse.  Are you sure your audience is walking away feeling inspired, connected and ready to use the information you gave them? What are “universal themes” and how do you apply them to your program? This workshop will help you develop programs, signage, exhibits and activities that successfully reach your audiences.  Build a template for creating multicultural and multigenerational programs that inspire people of any socio-economic, ethnic or generational background.  In addition, you’ll learn how to use audience driven techniques to create effective exhibit labels.
	Presenters: Michelle Templeton is the director of the City of Watsonville’s Wetlands Nature Center.  She is responsible for multicultural program development and delivery as well as creating interpretive exhibits and signage.  Previously she developed the multicultural program for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.  She has also worked as a classroom teacher and led several diversity workshops.
	Jenny de la Hoz has developed and delivered multicultural programs in the Education Department of the Monterey Bay Aquarium since 1998.  She is currently overseeing a partnership program between the Aquarium and partners in the community of Watsonville, California.  With over 15 years in both formal and informal educational settings, she has travelled all over the country giving workshops on multiculturalism and science education.
Putting Marine Science on the Map! Location: Surf and Sand Would you like to incorporate new place-based media technologies into your marine science programs?  Come explore Asilomar State Beach and learn about this fascinating coastal ecosystem.  Then, put your new knowledge online for all to enjoy by creating a media-rich interactive map using free Google tools. This workshop will provide hands-on practice so that you can teach your students how to create an online nature map.  You will upload and import photos, add text, embed video, and publish your map all in one day.  We will also cover what to do with maps that your students (or you!) create, including emailing them to friends and embedding them on your website or blog.  These techniques are easily incorporated into both formal and informal education programs.  Use the digital tools familiar to your students to connect them to local marine and aquatic environments while teaching science content standards. Workshop participants should be comfortable with basic computing and internet skills.  Participants are asked to bring their own laptop and digital camera, if possible.
	Presenters: Andrea Swensrud has been managing, developing and teaching marine science education programs for more than 10 years.  She currently is the Education Project Supervisor for the PBS series Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures, produced by KQED Public Broadcasting and Ocean Futures Society.
	Jessica Neely is a former high school science teacher and department chair and has been in the science education field for over 10 years.  She is the Project Supervisor for Science Education at KQED and offers educational resources and trainings using resources from QUEST, KQED’s multimedia science, nature, and environment series.
Ocean Literacy Location: Sanderling Would you like to help define and improve Ocean Literacy?  Want to encourage other teachers to teach more about the ocean? Here's your chance!  Join the next phase of the Ocean Literacy Campaign--conducting professional development. For the past two years, COSEE, NMEA, NOAA and College of Exploration have worked with hundreds of scientists and educators to develop the OL Scope & Sequence.  It breaks down the essential principles into four grade bands (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12) and provides guidance to curriculum developers, standards committees, informal science educators, and classroom teachers about how ocean sciences concepts can be understood and taught. Over one hundred scientists and educators participated in the online public review of the Scope & Sequence in November, 2008.  Now you can join us in a workshop focused on the design of professional development experiences to help teachers use the Scope & Sequence in their classrooms.  You will deepen your own knowledge of ocean sciences, pedagogy and professional development design as you help us create a variety of professional development experiences. This workshop, partially paid for by COSEE California, is intended for lead teachers, curriculum leaders, professional developers and informal educators who work with teachers and schools.
	Presenters: Lynn Uyen Tran is Center Manager of COSEE California and Research Specialist at the Lawrence Hall of Science.  She leads the MARE/LHS efforts on developing and reviewing the Scope & Sequence for the Ocean Literacy Principles.
	Craig Strang is Director of COSEE California, Associate Director of the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and sits on the NMEA Board of Directors.  He has been working with others on the Ocean Literacy Campaign since 2003.
	Lynn Whitley is the Director of Education for the University of Southern California Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and Sea Grant Program, and is co-director of COSEE-West.  She has been involved with the ocean literacy movement for many years.  She has created, implemented, and taught marine science programs in both formal and informal settings and is passionate about helping to create an ocean literate public!