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Unique Professional Development Opportunities for Elementary Educators

Forwarded from Ellen Ebert, K-12 Director of Science at OSPI

ITEEA's 80th Anniversary Celebration - April 12-14, 2018
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ELEMENTARY EDUCATORS!
Check out the unique professional development opportunities coming to Atlanta in 2018!

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PROGRAMMING PROVIDED BY ITEEA'S CHILDREN'S COUNCIL

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Wednesday, April 11, 2018
4:00pm - Workshop - STEM Strategies for the Elementary Classroom

Thursday, April 12, 2018
8:00am - Strengthening STEM in the Elementary School
2:00pm - Inventors' Stories Encouraging STEM Engagement
2:00pm - Blue Whale STEM Integration for Elementary Students
3:00pm - Captivating Them Early: Elementary STEM That Works!
4:00pm - Baby STEM: STEM in Primary Education

Friday, April 13, 2018
8:00am - Easy STEM Integration with NASA Resources
8:00am - STEM Camp: Animatronics and Coding
1:00pm - Making STEM Work: Writing for Children's Technology and Engineering
2:00pm - Connected Learning: Building Partnerships Within Your School
2:00pm - Collaborative Engineering with Skype
3:00pm - Global Collaboration = STEM = Exponential Learning
3:00pm - Secondary Technology and Engineering Educators Supporting Elementary STEM

ITEEA's Children's Council works to provide a top-notch professional development experience for educators and proponents of STEM Education at the Elementary Level!

In addition to Elementary STEM-related programming, ITEEA offers dozens of professional development learning sessions on a variety of other topics and at every educational level.

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THE 2018 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM and all conference information can be found here - https://www.iteea.org/ITEEA_Conference_2018.aspx

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COMPLIMENTARY ADMINISTRATOR REGISTRATION FORM - Administrators may use this form to receive a sponsored, free registration to ITEEA's 80th Anniversary Conference. Free to first 50 registrants!

INVITE YOUR ADMINISTRATOR - Use this letter to invite your administrator to ITEEA's 80th Anniversary Conference at NO REGISTRATION COST. 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT LETTER - Give this letter to your administrator to gain support to attend ITEEA's 80th Anniversary Conference.



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