The Power of Regional GK-12 Meetings

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The Power of Regional GK-12 Meetings

• General Benefits
• offered useful ideas from which everyone could
  benefit (Vanderbilt)
• It was a great team-building experience.
  (Georgia Tech) We felt both a sense of
  camaraderie and common purpose with others
  across the region . and a sense of pride
  (Emory Univ.)

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The Power of Regional GK-12 Meetings

• General Benefits (continued)
• It made me realize that the impacts of what
  were doing are much bigger than my small
  classroom (Univ. Florida) We appreciated
  knowing we arent working in isolation (Univ.
  Georgia)

1. Hearing NSFs overarching vision firsthand made
   me more appreciative of the profound importance
   of programmatic details (Georgia Tech.)

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The Power of Regional GK-12 Meetings

• 1. Regions have unique attributes challenges
• support of education
• state standards

2. Collaborative ventures are easier to
establish (e.g., Listserv FSU/UF GEMS
initiative)
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The Power of Regional GK-12 Meetings

• 3. Regional meetings can better involve teachers
  and fellows.

• 4. Regional meetings can become self-
  perpetuating. (If you build it, they will come!)

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Do one thing every day that scares you (Eleanor
Roosevelt)