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Successful Strategies for Involving Parents in Education |
Presenters
Laura Tucker
Laura Tucker has been the Workshop Coordinator for the Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS) Program for the past 16 years. She prepares, organizes, and coordinates GEMS workshops throughout the GEMS network including leadership courses and GEMS Associates and Associates II workshops. She also takes a lead in establishing and coordinating many of the GEMS Sites and Centers, both nationally and internationally. Tucker serves as a curriculum developer and reviewer for many of the GEMS publications, including Aquatic Habitats, Dry Ice Explorations, River Cutters, and Schoolyard Ecology teacher guides, and the GEMS Leaders, Literature, Assessment, and Kit Handbooks. Her background involves classroom teaching and extensive environmental education experience, including founding and directing a nonprofit resident outdoor school and summer camp program. She attended the University of California at Davis where she received her B.S. in Biological Sciences, specializing in large mammal field research.
Joan Sanders
Joan Sanders is a NASA Explorer Schools (NES) coordinator for the Johnson Space Center eight state service region. She enters her eleventh year working for Oklahoma State University (OSU) as a NASA education contractor. Joan began her career with OSU as an Aerospace Education Specialist for the NASA Aerospace Education Services Project at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. She transferred to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, in 2002 and assumed her current NES position in 2005. Joan has been a classroom teacher in elementary and middle schools in Michigan, New Jersey, Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland.
Joan is responsible for supporting the efforts of NASA Explorer Schools in TX, OK, KS, NE, SD, ND, CO, and NM, as they implement the goals and objectives of the NES project.
For more information contact symposia@nsta.org
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