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Teachers: Sign-up now for Camp Cooper Fall 2023/Spring 2024 field trips!

Every year, the Cooper Center provides outdoor desert education programs to thousands of students.  Their calendar does tend to fill up fast. This year, they are also offering a limited number of school visits and virtual field trips for those who are unsure about in-person experiences at Camp Cooper. Financial Aid is available to help with students, bus transportation costs, meals, and materials. Don’t miss your chance to bring your students to experience Cooper Center’s Sonoran Desert classroom.

For more information visit 

coopercenter@arizona.edu

Partners for Equitable Science Instruction

(PESI) Quarterly Meeting

Please join us as Debbie Black and Esther Witt, PESI’s newly elected co-presidents, host our next quarterly PESI meeting on Wednesday, July 26th at 3:00pm at TUSD’s Science Resource Center (SRC), 1940 E Winsett. The main entrance to SRC is across the street (south) from the bus parking lot near the west side of Lee Instructional Resource Center (LIRC).

Agenda items:

PESI’s future as a nonprofit

PULSE summit principal/teacher feedback review

Topics for PD sessions

Fundraiser at Portillo’s

Jim Click raffle tickets

Agenda                        Minutes 

Following the meeting, we will head over to the new Borderlands Brewing Company Sam Hughes location, 2500 E. 6^th St., (right across from the old Rincon Market) to celebrate the closing of a fantastic year and the opening of a new one, full of promise and new learnings. (This location/address has been changed/updated because it is much closer to SRC.

We would love to see you there!      

SRC continues to need volunteers all summer long!

Please email PESI at pesitucson@gmail.com

to let us know when you can help.

PESI Spring/Summer Support Campaigns

We at Partners for Equitable Science Instruction

(PESI) hope you’re having a fun summer, and that the

refreshing rains will reach your area!

Before you know it, the start of the new school

year will be upon us. Spring and early summer

events have kept us busy here at PESI.

You can read all about it in our 

Summer 2023 PESI Newsletter  Vol 2 Issue 10

In this issue, you’ll find:

• Meeting Announcements *
• PULSE Summit Success
• Support PESI – Buy Jim Click Raffle Tickets
• New Co-Presidents Message
• District News
• PESI Offers Teacher PD
• PESI Supporting Teachers
• Teacher Resources
• Science at Home Activities
• Supporting PESI

* There has been a change of address for the after the July 26th PESI Meeting

get-together. The Sam Hughes Borderlands at 2500 E 6th St. 85716 is closer to SRC.

Hope you can join us for the PESI Meeting and after! 

  pesitucson.org