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bullet Sue Boudreau presents the "Problems with Oil Project" at the California Science Teacher's Association's Area Conference in Pasadena, CA in Oct. 2011. This project links issues around petroleum to physical science standards, and helps students take informed and effective action on oil-related issue of their choice. Click here for the PowerPoint, teacher resources and the blog that supports teachers implementing this and other science projects.

bullet Beverly Ann Chin, Ann Kindfield and Catherine Saldutti led a panel of judges in New York City as they scored top entries for the ThinkQuest International Competition, sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation. Students around the world solved problems and presented digital media projects, web-based applications, and presentations using the ThinkQuest Projects™ platform. Congratulations to all of the 2011 winners and thank you, judges!

bullet Catherine Saldutti, Lauren Birney and Beverly Ann Chin present Concept Construxions at the ASCD and NSTA annual conferences alongside The Perris Union High School District team: Jennifer Nagle, Charles Newman, Blake Burnett and Richard Romero. We thank these terrific teachers and administrators for sharing their successful cross-curricular integration of this academic language system. Perris, CA is the first group to join our free EduExChange Program!

bullet Our colleague Ann C.H. Kindfield has co-authored Inscriptional practices in undergraduate introductory science courses: a path toward improving prospective K-6 teachers' understanding and teaching of science with Marcy Singer-Gabella. Click here, and then click the title of the article to download.
bullet We congratulate the organizers and researchers behind The Ultimate Block Party in NYC, held in Central Park on October 3 to celebrate and raise awareness about the value of free play for children of all ages. Want innovators? Stop testing children and let them play! Click here for more resources and information about the efforts of this expanding movement.


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bullet We are pleased to welcome Smarties Tutoring Services to NYC as a new SES provider for Grades K-8 in Math and ELA. Smarties is led by Dr. Isaak Aronson, a committed educator with real curriculum and instruction background. Further, the Smarties program is run by teachers, a quality that EduChange supports. Smarties has successfully offered services in CT, MA, RI and NJ. Their new NYC vendor number is SMA227287 and the contract number is NCLB066.
bullet Click here to download information about The 7th Annual Summer Invitational, where we joined our Rockefeller University hosts in welcoming teachers and network leaders representing Grades K-12 from August 16-19, 2010. Participants engaged in our curriculum mapping "Reflect to Project" protocols, learned concrete differentiated instruction strategies, and utilized our new software, The Differentiated Planning Assistant, to aid them in their backwards unit & project planning. Thanks to our participants for their hard work and active participation all week!.

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bullet Catherine Saldutti is invited to make 3 presentations at the inaugural New York State STEM Collaborative Summer Institute at SUNY Oswego, August 9-11, 2010. EduChange congratulates the Collaborative as the first state effort to convene member organizations in the STEM community to discuss the integration of STEM disciplines and the coordination of memberships statewide. Catherine's presentations included: Text And Tech: Broadening Our Idea of Reading For Math & Science in The Digital Age; A System Of Systems: Coordinating Math And Science Academic Vocabulary Through The Grades; and she was joined by Bruce Mallory of Brookline High School to present The Ups & Downs Of CO2: Using Mathematical Modeling To Explore A Real Scientific Data Set.
 
bullet We want to thank all of our host schools and the 340+ teachers who participated in our FREE professional development events sponsored by the NYCDOE, targeting math and science educators, their CTT and special education partners, EL specialists, and APs supporting students in both subjects in Grades 6-12. To get a sense of what happened in Spring 2010, Click here.
 
bullet EduChange supports COECs from around the Eastern region by facilitating their first peer cluster meeting, sponsored by a grant from the NIH. The Community Outreach and Education Core (COEC) translates the Center for Environmental Exposure and Disease (CEED) research information into tools and resources for community stakeholders. The meeting was hosted by UMDNJ as well as invited COEC programs from Columbia University, The Johns Hopkins University, and The University of Pennsylvania.

 
bullet The ink finally dried on our new NYC Literacy Professional Development contract, and to celebrate we conducted our first Secondary Writing Institute with Dr. Beverly Ann Chin on January 13-15, 2010. ELA and Social Studies teachers in grades 6-12 came together to triangulate writing instruction, writing tasks, and writing rubrics. We explored the 6+1 Traits of Writing and writing for Regents essays. As an extra bonus, Dr. Sandy Simon, our Rockefeller University host, shared his own experiences about the collaborative writing process for research science.

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bullet Sue Boudreau and Anne McCarten-Gibbs of New Global Citizens youth philanthropy organization present the "Take Action Project" at the National Science Teacher's Association's Area Conference in Phoenix, AZ, December 1-3, 2009. This project helps students take informed and effective action on a science-related issue of their choice. Click here for the PowerPoint, teacher resources and an online community link for teachers.

 
bullet Catherine Saldutti and Beverly Ann Chin present at the 2009 Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English Their session is entitled Crafting Writing to Deepen Reading Comprehension, and the PowerPoint and other handouts may be retrieved by clicking here. Beverly will be joining us in NYC January 13-15, 2010 for our own Secondary Writing Institute--stay tuned!

 
bullet EduChange supports the work of the NYS Teacher Centers through their Evaluation and Strategy Committee. Working with Teacher Centers across the state in Spring 2009, we queried a segment of NYS teachers and administrators at all levels. This work probed educators' beliefs about high-quality teachers and gathered information about their professional development needs and behaviors. Thank you for your continued commitment to strategic improvement, NYS Teacher Centers!
 
bullet Catherine Saldutti and Sue Boudreau give a presentation at the 2009 California Science Education Conference, The presentation is entitled Stories in Statistics: Data Interpretation for Middle School Students, and the PowerPoint and other handouts may be retrieved by Clicking here. adding more text

 
bullet The EduChange team helps SciPlay complete a pilot program in 6 elementary and preK-8 schools across NYC. Click here to download the white paper that discusses various relationships around inquiry and play. Great news: The SciPlay project has been adopted by the NY Hall of Science!
 
bullet Educhange teams up with Socratic Technologies to launch the Educator Advisor Network, an exclusive online community focused on giving educators a means to express their needs and opinions to school districts, politicians, educational companies and consultants. Click here to become a member.
 
bullet EduChange becomes the exclusive professional development provider for Teachers for Learners, a supplier of research-based tools designed to support teachers in delivering best-practice instruction. Contact Teachers for Learners to find out more about their products and our accompanying workshops.
 
 
bullet The Spanish Flu of 1918 is contagious again as Catherine Saldutti immerses Expeditionary Learning teachers across the nation in this compelling topic. Teaching science in context using active pedagogy was the focus of science institutes in Boston, MA; Minneapolis, MN; Phoenix, AZ; and Atlanta, GA-complete with a trip to the Centers for Disease Control-in 2006-2007.
 
 
bullet EduChange collaborates with The Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Loudoun County Public Schools to complete qualitative and quantitative evaluation of their middle school science curriculum & professional development program.
 
bullet EduChange and The Rockefeller University Teachers, July 31 - August 4, 2006.  9 middle and high schools across NYC boroughs sent teachers from all disciplines to this intensive professional development and course planning institute. Among the sessions offered were: Peer Review in the Scientific Community (Sandy Simon, Ph.D. and Rockefeller University Lab Head); Routines, Protocols & Classroom Set-up; Reading Strategies and Writing Process for Science; Course Planning a la Backwards Design; Diverse Learning Needs; Learning Content and Inquiry Through Laboratory Experiences; and more.

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bullet Catherine Saldutti, Catherine LoMonico and teacher Jessica Marchetti present at the 2006 National Conference of the National Science Teachers' Association (NSTA) in Anaheim, CA.
 
bullet Catherine Saldutti and Stephanie Copice lead Master Classes at the 2006 National Conference for Expeditionary Learning Schools, Oakland, CA.  The two workshops are entitled Science Reference Tables as Text and Science Data in Context. 

 
bullet Catherine Saldutti and Catherine LoMonico present Authentic Assessment: Using rubrics to teach skills across disciplines at the 2005 annual conference of the Association of Teachers in Independent Schools.  Click here to view the presentation

 
bullet Catherine Saldutti leads science cohort at the High School Institutes for Expeditionary Learning Schools on Bainbridge Island, WA and in Boston MA--Summer 2005.

 
bullet EduChange and The Rockefeller University co-host the 3rd Annual Summer Invitational for Teachers, August 1-5, 2005.  Schools who belong to the Investigations in Biology and Chemistry Program network sent teachers from all disciplines to this intensive professional development and course planning institute.

 
bullet Stephanie Copice & Gwendolyn Paisley are the keynote speakers at the 2005 annual conference of The New England Association of Chemistry Teachers. Click here to view the presentation

 
bullet Stephanie Copice leads an interactive professional development workshop, Creating Authentic and Rigorous Laboratory Experiences, at the 2005 Annual Conference of the Massachusetts Association for Science Teachers (MAST).

 
 
bullet View the PowerPoint® presentation of Catherine Saldutti and Nicolle Gottfried, independent evaluator, at the NARST Conference in April 2004. The focus of these two presentations is The Investigations in Biology and Chemistry Program

 
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View Catherine's PowerPoint® presentation at the NSF-funded Research Experience for Teachers (RET) National Conference in November, 2003. The title of the presentation is On Many Levels: Understanding the Impact of RET Programs on Students, and she addresses issues regarding the evaluation of these programs.
 
bullet Read the 2002 Annual Report for the Center for Blood Research, in which Catherine Saldutti helps encapsulate current research at this Harvard institution in the article The Research Imperative pp. 10-13. In 2007, CBR became the Immune Disease Institute (IDI).
 
bullet Throughout 2001-2002, Catherine Saldutti works with Harvard researchers to provide articles and profiles for the Center for Blood Research’s biannual publication CBR Investigator. Her article entitled Reach for the SKY highlights the latest in spectral karyotyping technologies; Additional articles include The B Cell Chronicles, The Antibody Revolution, Declaration of Interdependence and Making Genetic Sense of the Immune Response. This work represents the diverse and wide-reaching work of EduChange in helping the public make sense of complex scientific and technological information. In 2007, CBR became the Immune Disease Institute (IDI).

 
bullet Hastings Public Schools Embark on Major K-12 Science Education Reform Initiative, October, 2002
 
bullet For those of you who missed Catherine's presentation at the 2002 NSTA National Convention, check out the presentation and the rubric for lab assessment.
 Note: If you can not print these documents please click here and request the documents via email.

 
bullet Catherine's feature, Two Standards-Based Checkpoints: Social Promotion and Curriculum Articulation, was published in 2001-2002 edition of the prestigious The New Jersey Journal of Supervision and Curriculum Development.



 
bullet Members of the National Science Teachers Association can access Catherine's article, Inquiry by Design, in the October 2001 issue of the nationally-circulated magazine, The Science Teacher.
 
bullet Channeling Energy for Change: Thoughts on the Tragedies of Tuesday, September 11, 2001


 
bullet Members can catch the May 2001 issue of the NJEA Review with the article Guide helps make sense of NJ curriculum standards that highlights our first publication.
bullet EduChang® Offers Guide to NJ Standards and Testing, May 11, 2001  
 

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