GCISD Science Blog

STAT presents Conference for the Advancement of Science Teaching, or CAST, was held in November in Fort Worth. If you did not have the opportunity to attend that multi-day conference, D/FW Metroplex Mini-CAST may be an option for you. D/FW Metroplex Mini-CAST is March 2, 2019 in Allen ISD at the new Lowery Freshman Center. The building is beautiful and will accommodate some new and interesting ways of learning and concurrent sessions. There will still most definitely be traditional sessions that last about an hour, lunch, vendors displaying their fabulous materials, a keynote address by the engaging Amoeba Sisters, and plenty freebies and door prizes! Have you ever considered presenting a session? This conference is local and relatively small, so it is a safe space to try out presenting a session. So, if you have some great ideas or innovative practices you have used in your science classroom that you would like other folks to know about, visit www.dfwminicast.org/proposals.h

Thank you to the GCISD Education Foundation for their generous support of science teachers through grants awarded to the following science teachers: Josh Bergerson, Erin Smith, Michael Nottingham, Nathan Cooper and Patton Garay of GHS for Collecting and Analyzing Real-Time Data in Chemistry. Julee Sanders-Diehl, Maddie Backstrom, Courtney Bingham, J.J. Burton, and Andy Jacobs of GHS for 21st Century Biology:  Part 2 Sonya Loughran, Jessica Bell, Jason Crump, Cortney Kays, Michael Turner, Tanner Hannah, Miral Kawasmi, and Leslie Singles of CHHS for Spectrometer Upgrade Steven Rains of iUniversity Prep for Pivot Interactives Lab Improvement Thank you, teachers, for your dedication to your students.  Congratulations on being awarded grants.  Thanks again to the GCISD Education Foundation for their continued support of teaching and learning science.

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