Calendar of Events

FOSS Institutes

Delta Education will host two one-day FOSS Institutes before each of the three regional NSTA Conferences in Hartford, Connecticut (10/26); New Orleans, Louisiana (11/09); and Seattle, Washington (12/07). These Institutes, one for K–5 and one for middle school, will be for educators from districts that have implemented FOSS or are planning to implement FOSS. The Institutes will focus on newly developed FOSS materials—new FOSS K–5 modules for 2012 and Planetary Science Second Edition for Middle School. These Institutes are designed for experienced FOSS educators—lead teachers, administrators, curriculum coordinators, professional developers, and university methods instructors.

These Institutes are free, but you must register in advance to attend. To secure your spot at the Institute, please write, fax, or e-mail:

Pam Frisoni
Delta Education
80 Northwest Boulevard
Nashua, NH 03063
pam.frisoni@schoolspecialty.com
Fax: 920.882.4598

FOSS CA Newsletter E-blasts

Are you a teacher using the California edition of FOSS? Sign up to receive the FOSS CA newsletter e-blasts today! The FOSS CA newsletter e-blasts will be delivered biannually to your e-mail inbox and feature content specific to the FOSS California edition. To sign up for the newsletter, visit www.FOSSweb.com/CA and click on the e-blasts button.

Would you like to receive the FOSS Newsletter electronically? Simply sign-up at www.deltaeducation.com/science/foss/newsletter.aspx or send your request to jason.crowell@schoolspecialty.com. Include your name, title, school, and e-mail address. You can also view both the recent and previous issues of the FOSS Newsletter, as well as archived articles, at www.lhsfoss.org/newsletters.

If you’d like to be added to the mailing list to receive this newsletter by mail, please send your name and address to:

Jason Crowell
Delta Education
80 Northwest Boulevard
Nashua, NH 03063
jason.crowell@schoolspecialty.com
Phone: 603.579.3435

NSTA 2011 National Conference

San Francisco, CA March 9–12, 2011

FOSS staff and consultants will be presenting a number of workshops at the NSTA national conference in San Francisco, including field trips, sessions on formative assessment and use of notebooks, taking FOSS outdoors, and exploring language development through inquiry. For a complete list of the FOSS-related presentations, go to www.FOSSweb.com and check the News. The sessions are also listed in the online Professional Development Calendar at www.FOSSweb.com.

FOSS will also be presenting sessions at each of the Fall 2011 NSTA Conferences.

Hartford, CT October 27–29
New Orleans, LA November 20–13
Seattle, WA December 8–10

Summer 2011 Calendar

Middle School Institutes

June 28–July 1 (Tuesday-Friday)
FOSS Planetary Science (Second Edition) Institute
Location: Lawrence Hall of Science

July 19–24, (Tuesday-Sunday)
FOSS Populations and Ecosystems Institute
Location: Lawrence Hall of Science and Mono Lake, CA

For more information about these middle school institutes, please contact Jessica Penchos at jessica_penchos@berkeley.edu or 510.643.5145.