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STEM Education Professional Learning ProgrammingAfterschool Coaching for Reflective Educators in STEM (ACRES) >Program Highlights:Two of the original grants that supported the work of ACRES finished at the end of 2021. Through funding from the STEMNext ...
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In the PeBLES2 (Place Based Learning for Elementary Science at Scale) project, we are working with teachers, scientists, and researchers to co-design two locally adaptable units of instruction and supporting professional learning for 3rd and ...
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Currently, through a partnership with Code.org, we are able to offer a series of FREE, virtual, workshops for K-5 educators (with a minimum of ten educators enrolled). MMSA and our Code.org partner facilitators (who happen ...
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Educate Maine and Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance are excited to announce that applications for Code.org’s Professional Learning Program are now open. If your school is looking to offer Code.org’s computer science (CS) courses at ...
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2021 is here and MMSA is full of hope as we look to the future.  In 2020 we were able to support the work of 2,300 educators across the country, over 2,000 of them from ...
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MMSA has embarked on an exciting new adventure by hosting paid interns to assist with our programmatic work. We have recently brought on three college students who will increase MMSA’s capacity while learning new skills ...
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MMSA’s research team has been working with the ELLMS Collaborative members starting back in the Fall of active2020 through Spring 2021 to complete a retrospective evaluation of their Residential Environmental Learning Center (RELC) Programs. ELLMS ...
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Math coaching is an important part of MMSA's professional learning experiences. Over the course of the year we have worked with several districts, developing a mathematics professional learning plan and working with educators depending on ...
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STEMports is entering its third year this October and the team is hard at work developing an augmented reality game app for Maine youth! Wait, what was that—what is STEMports? STEMports is a three-year National ...
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Teach ME Outside is excited to announce the launch of several new initiatives and tools to support schools’ and organizations’ ability to implement community-based environmental learning. A team of 15 in-school and out-of-school educators, administrators, ...
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The MMSA math consulting team supports mathematics educators through project work, consulting, and curriculum development. MMSA strives to identify opportunities to support educators in learning how to integrate mathematical practices into STEM learning, both for ...
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All of us here at MMSA stand hand-in-hand with our educator partners across the State and the Nation ready to meet the upcoming challenges for STEM learning head on. All of our programming has been ...
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Our research team now consults or leads research on anywhere between 10-12 projects at any one time. It’s great to have the capacity to both carryout complex research designs and be able to contribute to the field of ...
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With every one of us tethered to our computers this spring, there has been a lot of conversation about the role of technology in our lives as well as the capacity for that technology to ...
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This week the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance’s Afterschool Coaching for Reflective Educators in STEM Project (ACRES) won two national awards for a 3-minute video showing their online work in virtual coaching for afterschool providers.   “2020 STEM ...
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We hope you are well and finding ways to decrease your stress during these difficult times. Your efforts to be creative, resourceful, and resilient do not go unacknowledged. You matter and are inspiring in your ...
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This month, we had educators from Madawaska to Waterboro, Fryeburg to Belfast and many between and beyond join us for multiple sessions to discuss how we can best support learners and families during this crisis ...
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Whether you're new to video conferences or a veteran, here are some tips for being an engaged participant. Download the PDF ...
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On January 24th, 2020, Mrs. Marci Train, a teacher at the two-room Long Island School in Maine's Casco Bay, set sail for the Southern Ocean as part of a partnership between MMSA and the Bigelow ...
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Register for AR Girls 2020 Summer Session AR Girls registration is open for the summer 2020 workshop program which will run in three art centers across Maine: Fiddlehead Art and Science Center in Gray, Wintergreen Art ...
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Looking for high-quality, open-source, NGSS-designed middle school science units?  OpenSciEd will be releasing the second round of open-source, NGSS-designed middle school science units in February!  OpenSciEd (www.openscied.org) was launched to ensure that any science teacher, ...
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Through our professional learning opportunities and research/evaluation activities MMSA has been building capacity to meet the challenges we see ahead for STEM education in Maine and across the country.  Check out these highlights and join ...
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The MIT Alumni Club of Maine invites Maine middle school and high school science, engineering, and math teachers to apply for a Club scholarship to the MIT Science and Engineering Program for Teachers (SEPT) July ...
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PRESS CONFERENCE AND CELEBRATION for the release of the Census of Community-Based Environmental Learning in Maine 2019 Report Legislators, educators, school administrators, and community organizations all gathered together on Monday January 13, 2020 in the ...
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MMSA welcomed a senior NSF official,  John Cruickshank, for a site visit to   review our six current NSF-funded  projects and to share news about  upcoming funding opportunities. Mr. Cruickshank oversees  policy, grants, and conflict management  for ...
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For Immediate Release: Thursday, September 19, 2019 With the help of a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance (MMSA) will be working to support rural teachers and ...
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In 2016, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) created a special research initiative named “STEMeX” (STEM Expert Facilitation of Family Learning in Libraries and Museums). This is the only project at MMSA that ...
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Throughout 2019, the Experiential STEM project, with the generous support of the Davis Family Foundation, will provide focused, non-hierarchical professional development that works with teams of students and educators together – learning and planning curriculum side-by-side ...
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It is no secret that rural communities across the United States struggle to retain motivated and talented STEM workers—and Maine is certainly no exception. Rural labor markets are in transition, and there is a common ...
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Showcase | Elementary | Middle School | High School I didn’t realize so many jobs used computer science until I really sat there and thought about it while in the making of the video”– 8th grader In 2018 ...
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AR Girls is a National Science Foundation funded research project designed to support teenage girls with an interest in art to develop science communication skills through interactive digital storytelling. MMSA held the first AR Girls ...
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What is Computer Science? What is it not? Where do we see it both in Maine and in our everyday lives? What is the skill set our students need to be successful in an evolving ...
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The WeatherBlur research team has been busy analyzing data from one of last year’s most productive investigations: King Tide. During this investigation, students were interested in learning more about how the high water from the ...
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Increasingly, scientists, citizen data collectors, college students, and even journalists are using existing data sets in conjunction with powerful data tools to explore patterns and test hypotheses. The NSF-funded Data Clubs project (developed by the ...
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Who says being an employee of MMSA is all work and no play? Sometimes we get a chance to do both by working with innovative education programs in some of the most beautiful corners of ...
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We know you and your students have worked amazingly hard all year on STEM.  MMSA would like to highlight some of this work with a Best of STEM in Maine Photo Contest.  It's a super ...
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Have you heard the buzz about all of the computer science professional development this Summer? You will not want to miss out on these opportunities to integrate computer science, coding, and more into your curriculum ...
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Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance and Educate Maine announce plans to expand K-12 computer science instruction through partnership with Code.org. With most every student carrying a computer in their smartphone 24/7, they need to learn ...
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Looking for some free PD to introduce computer science into your class, school, or district? MMSA is recruiting for free summer PD (in fact, we pay you to attend!) to train teachers to implement the ...
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WeatherBlur members collected data on the effects of the King Tide up and down the Maine coastline. WeatherBlur Program Manager was interviewed by a TV station as the 'person on the street' and managed to ...
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On Dec 20, 2016 the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced that they have awarded to the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance a two-year National Leadership Grant (MG-00-17-0003-17).  MMSA will work in unusually ...
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