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President's Message

NSELA Award Winners

National Plan for Addressing STEM Needs

Tech Support

PDI 2008 and beyond

Safe Science

Meet Your New Board Members

Regional News

Board Meeting Summary

2009: Celebrating with NSELA

1 Hour to Prepare a Lesson

Nominate a Colleague for an Award

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July 7 - 10, 2008
NSELA Summer Leadership Institute, Asheville, NC

March 18, 2009
NSELA Professional Development Institute, New Orleans

March 19-March 22, 2009, New Orleans
NSTA Convention

NSELA Leadership Team

The NSELA Board of Directors met in Boston on March 25th for our Annual Meeting. Boston was blustery and beautiful on the waterfront near the Sea Port Conference Center. The Annual Meeting was held in conjunction with the NSTA Annual Conference on Science Education.

Some important highlights of our Annual Meeting are the following:

• NSELA will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this upcoming year!
  
  
• Long time NSELA Board Member Pat Shane is the President-Elect of NSTA. Pat has served NSELA in numerous capacities including President, and most recently has been Publications Committee Chair and Nominations Committee Chair.
  
  
• New board members include:
  
  New NSELA Officers
  President: Linda Atkinson
  President-Elect: Brenda Wojnowski
  Treasurer: Karen Charles
  
  New NSELA Board Members
  Region B: Eric Walters
  Region E: Susan Koba
  Safety: Ken Roy
  
  
• The 2008 Summer Leadership Institute is being held in Asheville, NC July 7 – 10. The focus of the SLI will be Powerful Designs for Professional Development. Presenters will be Dr. Lois Easton, recently retired as Director of Professional Development at Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center, Estes Park, Colorado and author of Powerful Designs for Professional Development and Dr. Stevi Quate, Colorado Department of Education/Educational Consultant. Learn more and register.
  
  
• The 2009 NSELA Professional Development Institute will be held on March 18th in New Orleans before NSTA’s National Conference on Science Education.
  
  
• Locations were selected for the 2009 and 2010 Summer Leadership Institutes:
  2009 Portland, Maine
  2010 Flagstaff, Arizona
  
  
• A good part of the afternoon was spent discussing the following topics, in conjunction with our Action Plan, to see what steps are recommended in these areas:
  Long Range Planning
  Membership
  Professional Development
  Communication
  Leadership
  
  
• The board has begun holding a series of audio-conferences that will focus on the discussion notes generated during the conversations at our Annual Meeting in order to complete important NSELA Action items.
  
  
• The NSELA Board of Directors will meet at NSTA’s Cincinnati Regional conference and will hold their Annual Meeting at NSTA’s New Orleans Conference on Science Education.