We came up with the idea for the Evolutionary Education in the Inland Northwest (“EvoEd-IN” for short) to address the disconnect between science teachers and professional evolutionary biologists at major research universities in the area, primarily Washington State University and the University of Idaho.
We are graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and professors. We are also supporters of local educators. Our goal is to support science teachers in the area by helping to develop teaching modules to improve their classroom experiences, act as a resource for anything they may need, and to use technology to bring the two complementary groups – biologists and educators – closer together.
In the summer of 2018, we will hold our inaugural EvoEd-IN workshop in the Pullman/Moscow area. We view the workshop as secondary to the broader network and our aims for it are three-fold.
At the workshop, we will...
Teachers that attend the workshop will leave with a commitment from at least one biologist to visit their classroom in the 2018-19 school year. The style and the content of the visit will be completely up to the host teacher! And, if numbers allow, we’ll aim to send a male and female paired group to each classroom.
If this sounds interesting to you, we hope you’ll join us. To join the network, just click “Join/Register” and fill out the form. If you’d like to also attend the workshop (it’s free and we’ll pay for your gas/meals!), you can let us know that on the same form.
If you have any questions, please let us know.
Thanks,
The EvoEd-IN Team
We are graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and professors. We are also supporters of local educators. Our goal is to support science teachers in the area by helping to develop teaching modules to improve their classroom experiences, act as a resource for anything they may need, and to use technology to bring the two complementary groups – biologists and educators – closer together.
In the summer of 2018, we will hold our inaugural EvoEd-IN workshop in the Pullman/Moscow area. We view the workshop as secondary to the broader network and our aims for it are three-fold.
At the workshop, we will...
- Discuss broad challenges and solutions to rural evolutionary education and here from a variety of perspectives on it.
- Test run and refine an optional evolutionary teaching module for teachers to bring into their own classroom.
- Meet face-to-face! While online connections are valuable, we’re old school and think there’s no substitute for spending the day together and getting to know each other.
Teachers that attend the workshop will leave with a commitment from at least one biologist to visit their classroom in the 2018-19 school year. The style and the content of the visit will be completely up to the host teacher! And, if numbers allow, we’ll aim to send a male and female paired group to each classroom.
If this sounds interesting to you, we hope you’ll join us. To join the network, just click “Join/Register” and fill out the form. If you’d like to also attend the workshop (it’s free and we’ll pay for your gas/meals!), you can let us know that on the same form.
If you have any questions, please let us know.
Thanks,
The EvoEd-IN Team