As director of the Woodrow Wilson Leadership Program for Teachers
(WWLPT), I would like to welcome you to the 1997 Environmental Science
planning network.
This message is going to all 1997 participants with email addresses (and
eventually to others, as well), all members of the academic team, WWLPT
staff in Princeton, and several interested parties instrumental in the
planning of the institute but not taking an active role this summer
(including our NSF program officer).
Through this conversation, participants will personalize their team's
summer experience and otherwise assist in planning the project-based
institute.
A set of Princeton-area environmental problems/ issues have been gathered
by the academic/ process team. It is now up to the participant-teams to
choose an issue. The issue your team chooses will form the nucleus of
your summer research.
Project issues should be chosen by the **middle of May** so the academic
team has time to prepare the resources including the schedule, labs,
transportation, visiting experts, technological tools, and so on for the
number of teams selecting a given project.
We'd like you to look at the projects available and talk over the
possibilities with your teammates, asking questions here as you go along.
(More projects may be posted in the next few days so take the time you
need.)
Each team should designate one person as the team contact and that person
will take responsibility for informing us of the project issue selected
and other official sorts of communications. Everyone should join in the
conversation, however. When you reply to this message, your message will
go to everyone. The address is esi97@www.woodrow.org
(There are some teams with only one or two people with email addresses.
Those of you on the net will need to communicate all the information to
your team members so you can make a collaborative decision. We are
calling all of the non email subscribers to see if they can use a school
computer or otherwise access the net. If you have any questions about
this dynamic, please write sloane@woodrow.org or call Bill Sloane at
609-452-7007 extension 22 (Fax: 609-452-0066).
We are building a database of the participants which will be posted on
the web soon. Project issues and names and organizations of everyone else
on the list are already posted
http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/environment/institutes/1997/
If you have email, but no web access, please write burchard@pobox.com for
the descriptions and other web information.
We'd like the team contact to introduce the team. Tell us
(a) team members' names,
(b) schools, including city and state,
(c) whether your team has web access,
(d) whether everyone on your team has email access
The others on the list will introduce themselves when they reply to
participant questions or comments. Remember, you can see the list on the
web.
This email conversation is for us to work together to make the institute
as good as it possibly can be. There are no off-limits questions, but
think of this as brainstorming where we build on each others' ideas
rather than challenging them and answer each other's questions
respectfully.
And, after all this wonderful stuff, please be aware we STILL have not
received the official letter from NSF saying we are funded. Please do not
make any travel arrangements until you've heard from us.
Again, welcome.
Mary Apodaca, Director
Woodrow Wilson Leadership Program for Teachers
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
CN 5281
Princeton NJ 08543
609-452-7007 extension 19; FAX: 609-452-0066
apodaca@woodrow.org
www.woodrow.org