Third-, fourth- and fifth-grade teachers can apply for the opportunity to attend a week-long, all-expenses-paid professional development program that equips them with new ways to inspire their students in math and science.
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Educators, students, business leaders and politicians are invited to attend the 2012 Maine Chinese Conference to learn how to create opportunities for cooperation between the United States and China in education and business.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2012-14 Maine Governor’s Academy for STEM Education Leadership. Continue reading “Governor’s academy for STEM leadership accepting applications”
UPDATE: This consortium is a four-day training split into two parts. The first part is Dec. 3-4; the second part is Feb. 6-7.
All Maine educators are invited to hear about the customized learning vision for Maine schools at one of the Maine Cohort for Customized Learning’s upcoming consortium: “Designing a Standards-Based, Customized Learning Community.”
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The Maine Suicide Prevention Program has posted its 2012-13 training schedule for those hoping to prevent suicide among both adults and youth.
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The Jackson Laboratory teacher internship program supports middle and high school science and math teachers in conducting full-time research internships at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor. Continue reading “Jackson Laboratory teacher internship accepting spring applications”
Teachers, administrators, school counselors and mental health specialists are invited to attend the second annual Lives in the Balance conference to learn more about the Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) approach to school discipline practices.
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The University of Maine’s Project Reach program offers in-service teachers a scholarship to enable them to become English as a Second Language-endorsed.
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AUGUSTA – Today, the LePage Administration honored three science teachers and one math teacher from Maine as finalists for the 2012 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen recognized the educators at the Maine Science Teachers Association conference in Gardiner, which focused on rigorous new science standards.
The National Science Foundation, which is known for its rigorous selection process, will select up to one mathematics and one science winner per state to be recognized next spring in Washington, D.C.
LEWISTON – Peter Barlow, a metal trades instructor at the Region 9 School of Applied Technology in Mexico, was named Maine’s newest Career and Technical Educator of the Year Friday in front of more than 400 of his colleagues. Barlow has taught precision machining and welding programs at Region 9 since 1991.
Educators gathered Friday to share best practices from around Maine at the third annual CTE conference at the Lewiston Regional Technical Center.
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