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George
Leonberger:
George Leonberger is a veteran teacher with many
awards including the H. Dudley Wright Fellowship. His
expertise is in astronomy for beginners and advanced
students. He can give earth science and general science
teachers a great deal of astronomy activities that work well
in the classroom.
Specialties-
- Educator in-servicing (workshop titles)
- Feel at Home Under the Nighttime Skies!
- Find Your Place on Earth
- How to Turn Your Students Into Amateur
Astronomers
- Astronomy on the Internet
- Using Internet data
- Environmental Chemistry Activities.
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Jamie
Larsen:
Jamie taught science for public and private
schools in grades 6-college. He has won numerous national
awards for science teaching including an NSTA TAPESTRY grant
for his Slam Dunk Science Project, NSTA Screen Report award
for his Alien Autopsy-A Case for Skeptical Inquiry, and a
USWest Connecting Teachers grant for his Nature's Apprentice
Project. As a fellow at Tufts University's Wright Center for
Innovation in Science Education he was responsible for
organizing conferences ranging from Frontiers in Science to
Frontiers in Ethnobiology as well as developing an award
winning web site: Slam Dunk Science. He has written
activities for the PBS series Scientific American Frontiers
and NOVA and is currently a Senior Curriculum Developer for
a non-profit science and math curriculum development
group.
Specialties-
- Educator in-servicing
- Hands-on science workshops
- Integrating Science Across the Curriculum
- Writing / Authoring
- Web Development
- Consulting
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Ronnee Yashon:
Ronnee is a nationally known expert in teaching
bioethics in the science classroom. She has taught in
secondary, undergraduate, graduate and law school. She was
awarded the Presidential Award for Outstanding Science
Teaching and has been honored as the outstanding biology
teacher in Illinois.
Her case study methodology for introducing bioethics into
the curriculum uses simple, personalized and current
scenarios that involve the student in decision making.
Specialties-
- Educator in-servicing
- Classroom presentations
- Writing / Authoring
- Consulting
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Wilton Wong:
During the past 23 years, I have served as a
teacher of science at three different high schools and have
been science department chair at two of them.
There have been a number of awards that I have been lucky to
be honored with which include: the Presidential Award for
Excellence in Science Teaching from NSTA and NSF, California
Educator Award from the Milken Family Foundation and the
State Department of Education, Outstanding Teacher Award
from the Exploratorium, J. Russell Kent Award for an
exemplary program from San Mateo County, and a TAPESTRY
grant award from NSTA.
As an active member of the teaching community, I have also
served on the Standards Committee of the National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards and now work with West Ed in
the development of the assessment for national certification
of science teachers; the co-chair of the California Science
Teachers Association state wide conference; the George Lucas
Education Foundation in the development of multimedia
educational products; the state committee on assessment
development in science; and now the director of the
Capuchino Science Center.
Specialties-
- Educator in-servicing
- Hands-on science workshops
- Writing/Authoring
- Consulting
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