Opportunities+for+Teachers

===Nominate an Innovative High School Science Teacher Calling all U.S. high school science department chairs and administrators: It’s time to nominate teachers for the 2011 AAAS Leadership in Science Education Prize for High School Teachers. The $1,000 prize honors a high school science teacher who has advanced science education by developing and implementing an effective strategy, activity, or program. The winner will also receive a complimentary one-year institutional subscription to Science magazine and will be invited to attend and make a brief presentation at the annual Shanghai International Forum on Science Literacy of Pre-college Students as a guest of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology. To access prize details, nomination forms, and application forms, [ http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/awards/hs_scied_leadership ]click here. For more information, contact [ mailto:bgoldste@aaas.org ]Barbara Goldstein. Deadline: May 27, 2011.===

Summer Institutes for 2011
The following institutes are a compilation from varied sources and there is no recommendation for any of them-- so be careful. Likewise, if there is an institute that is not listed, it is just because I didn't know about it and not that it is not worthwhile. - Kip Bollinger

Engaged STEM and Global Climate Change: http://cemast.illinoisstate.edu/educators/pd/imsp/index.shtml

Planting Science - Botanical Society of America www.botany.org/Outreach/Summer2011_Brochure.pdf due - April 4, 2011

Oklahoma Writing Project http://owp.ou.edu due- March 25

Plant Science Curriculum Development Project for Teachers bti.cornell.edu/pdfs/CDW_app_2011.pdf due- March 30

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellowship Program http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/prodev/teacherfellowship/ due- Feb 11

Enrichment Experiences in Engineering essap.tamu.edu/e3/docs/brochure/e3 brochure 2011.pdf due- Feb15

Ethics in Science Summer Professional Development Program http://www.nwabr.org/education/esc.htm available in Feb

Bridging the Watershed http://www.fergusonfoundation.org/btw/training.shtml due- May 1

Spectrophotometry Workshop for Science Teachers http://www.bowdoin.edu/biology/grants/

Howard Hughes Medical Institute summer workshops 2010/2010 summer workshops information.shtml due- TBA

Neuroscience Workshop

Population Genetics Workshop

Phagehunting Teacher Workshops http://phagesdb.org/phagehunters/# due- TBA