Superintendents

6/22/10 Dr. Wicker

====I wanted to let you know that we had our first online meeting today with my staff and Anthony Cooley and Rick Everitt from PAEC to begin the planning process for jumping into our summer tasks for the grant.====

====We will be meeting face to face next week to finalize some important dates for the summer professional development institute for the 12 new and veteran science teachers from the five districts. The institute will most likely be the end of July for two weeks. Due to the late notification from DOE of the grant award, we realize it will be challenging for teachers to attend a two week institute on such short notice, but we will do all we can to work with schedules and utilize technology for transmittal of information.====

====I encourage you to share this important news with your high school principals that have teachers involved in this grant. I have attached the final grant narrative and budget summary for your review. Please refer to page 17 of the narrative for Table 3 which describes the Summer Institute Work Plan and timeline. This timeline may need some adjustment, but we hope to adhere to it as closely as possible.====

====We look forward to this exciting and engaging project that will equip our teachers and students to use technology in an integrated way while increasing their knowledge of research-based science instructional strategies and teaching for understanding.====