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We the People: Migrant Waves in the Making of America, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a two-week live online virtual professional opportunity for K-12 educators, hosted by the University of Arizona and Worlds of Worlds Center of Global Literacies and Literatures (wowlit.org). Through children’s, young adult, and adult literature, historical records, artifacts and film, participants will explore the stories, histories and contributions of underrepresented groups to U.S history. Participants will also interact with visiting scholars and children’s and young adult authors to learn from their processes of research. We will study Arizona to understand the influence of continuous waves of migrants on the making of America. By engaging in humanities research within this case study and then applying these strategies to their own states, participants will gain knowledge and experiences to support curricular planning for their own educational contexts. 

The institute will be held virtually June 21-July 2, 2020 and participants will receive a $2,200 stipend, 10 books and other curricular materials. If you have any questions, contact us by email at NEH2021@email.arizona.edu. Please see our website (https://wethepeople.coe.arizona.edu/) for more information and to apply. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2021, and the institute directors are Drs. Carol Brochin, Leah Durán and Kathy Short. 

PESI Professional Development Committee will be gathering virtually and hopefully also in person on the afternoon of Feb. 6, 2021, to write proposals for TUSD Summer PD in science. We are currently checking on the availability of a room at the Boys and Girls Club at Grant and Country Club and plan to have a Zoom link for those who want to help via a virtual connection. Anyone interested in helping can contact Caryl Crowell at carylc49@comcast.net. Please check back for more details on location confirmation and the Zoom link.

Apply for $2000 scholarship for PD to add a STEM subject certification; or to qualify to teach dual enrollment

Certified AZ teachers:  apply NOW for a $2,000 professional development (PD) scholarship. Teachers have three years to use the $2000.

 Apply at   https://www.azed.gov/titlei/pd-pilot-program

Professional development must support a certificated teacher in gaining additional credentials (e.g., qualify to teach dual enrollment physics or chemistry) and/or certifications in math, a science subject, technology, engineering or career & technical education.

Don’t delay! Teachers can re-apply EACH year, for the next 1 1/2 year ONLY, for another $2000.

WHY THE NEED? 

Arizona has dire shortages of qualified, effective high school teachers in physics and chemistry.
* Only ~160 physics-certified teachers teach high school physics. Only 20% of AZ high schoolers take physics.
* MCCCD lost HALF of its dual enrollment teachers due to the new Higher Learning Commission requirement of 18 graduate credits in the content area,  the president of Paradise Valley CC said in fall 2018.
*  20% of Arizona public district high schools eliminated physics after the recession of 2008.

Download feedback from 7 teachers who used their $2000 scholarship from 2017: see
     http://modeling.asu.edu/AZ/$2000scholarshipsFeedback2019.pdf

Please share with educators in your networks. Thanks!

Colin Waite

Director Cooper Center for Environmental Learning

Department of Teaching, Learning & Socio-cultural Studies

University of Arizona College of Education

PO Box 210069

Tucson, AZ 85721

Office Phone:  (520)626-1825

Cooper Phone:  (520)743-7422

Fax:  (520)621-1853

http://coopercenter.arizona.edu

The Cooper Center for Environmental Learning, an outreach program of the University of Arizona, sits on the traditional homelands of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui, who have stewarded this land from time immemorial. Aligning with Cooper Center’s and the University’s core value of a diverse and inclusive community, it is an institutional responsibility for us to recognize, represent, and acknowledge the ancestors, people, culture, and history our community resides on.