Professional Development Opportunities

Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, BSCS (http://www.bscs.org)
Development of science curricula for grades K-college

The Wright Center for Science Education, Tufts University, Medford, MA (http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center)

Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (http://cibt.bio.cornell.edu/) The institute exists to update the knowledge of high school teachers in modern biology. A second purpose is to provide teachers with hands-on experience with lab exercises suitable for use in high schools and to provide resources for implementing the lab exercises in their classes. A third goal is to facilitate the formation of a network of participants and Cornell biologists.

Another program developed interdisciplinary, hands-on activities for middle school science students. Middle school science teachers worked with CIBT alumni (high school biology teachers) and Cornell scientists to develop innovative lab activities for middle school science classes. The activities are being shared with other teachers at local, state, and national workshops.

Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Teachers (http://www.nsta.org/programs/tapestry/)Administered by the NSTA, 50 grants of up to $10K and a minimum of 20 "minigrants" of $2.5K each to K-12 teachers.

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (http://www.enc.org/)

The PEW Charitable Trusts (http://www.pewtrusts.org/grants/grants_item.cfm?image=img3&program_area_id=3)

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (http://www.mellon.org/MellonRecentGrants.htm)

Science Teachers Association of New York State (STANYS) (http://www.stanys.org) Grant money for science students

Attracting Ph.Ds to K-12 Education. (http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10433.html)

Bioboard (http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/ug-ed/wwwboard/bioboard.shtml) Concerned with teaching introductory science courses

Biology Education Online (http://www.accessexcellence.org/LC/BEOn/)

Bioscene (http://papa.indstate.edu/amcbt/bioscene.html)
The publication of the Association of College and University Biology Educators.

E-Newsletters for Teachers Science Monthly is a theme-based newsletter geared for K-12 educators. The newsletter provides timely activities, lesson plans, and resources for quality science instruction. Sign up online at teachervision.com. The newsletter is archived on the Learning Network's Teacher Channel, TeacherVision.com.

The Knowledge Loom -- What Works in Teaching and Learning. (http://www.knowledgeloom.org) Developed by a federally funded research laboratory at Brown University, the site contains information about model professional development programs.

Association of College and University Biology Educators (formerly the Association of Midwestern College Biology Teachers) (http://papa.indstate.edu/amcbt/index.html)

Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences (CELS) (http://www.wisc.edu/cels)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (http://www.hhmi.org)

Project Kaleidoscope (http://www.pkal.org)

Workshop Biology (University of Oregon) Targetted to teaching non-majors. (http://biology.uoregon.edu/Biology_WWW/
Workshop_Bio/wb.html)

The Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE) (http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/able)

BioQuest (http://bioquest.org)