As the academic director of the 1998 Woodrow Wilson Environmental
Science Institute (ESI98-Princeton), I'd like to welcome you and share
some of our goals and hopes for the institute. This letter will
introduce you to some of the faculty who will work with us this summer
and explain how we hope you will contribute to the program. We'll
continue communicating with you from now until the summer institute
begins June 28, 1998, via email and by mail for those of you who have
yet to establish email accounts. Please feel free to call Geri
Marchioni, Conference Manager at 609-452-7007 x21 or email her at
marchioni@woodrow.org.
Currently, we are constructing a set of web pages at the Leadership
Program for Teachers (LPT) to serve you prior to, during, and after the
institute. Those of you who have provided us with your email address are
receiving this message via the email list instead of by surface mail.
The email list will provide information on academic activities and
administrative concerns, and email is another way to communicate your
questions regarding environmental science concepts and structure of the
institute. Those of you who receive the letter by surface mail are
urged to get an email account as soon as possible. Please see the web
site at http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/es/institutes/1998/p/ .
Our institute will be organized around topics related to global climate
change and we have invited you to share a classroom or professional
development experience appropriate for the institute's theme. If you
have not yet submitted one to three ideas for the classroom or
professional development activity you will present, please do so
promptly.
Your involvement in the institute will be at least four-fold, you will:
1) participate in activities led by resident faculty and visiting
faculty,
2) share a classroom or professional development activity preferably
related to the theme of the institute,
3) integrate use of the Internet, including developing a collaborative
standards-based web product,
4) collaborate with LPT and teacher-colleagues in preparation for
leadership activities to be conducted after the institute.
Now, don't panic!!! There will be a lot of people working with us to
accomplish these goals.
Our resident group, so far, includes me, Gary Silverman, Edward Wells
and Mary Yang. I am an invertebrate biologist by training. Presently,
I teach biology at Milton Academy, a private school south of Boston.
Gary Silverman is Director of the Environmental Health Program at
Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Edward Wells is Chairman of
Environmental Studies at Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA. There's also
an intern, a recent Princeton grad in chemical engineering, Mary Yang.
LPT will collaborate with you to determine how 1998 outreach works, and
guide us in preparing web-products that can be used by a wide range of
teachers.
There are approximately 50 other participants from 16 states in your
institute plus 50 more participants in ESI98-Rutgers, plus 40 more in
the biology institute at Princeton. We hope that all of you will serve
as resources for each other during and after the institute. We have
lots to do and it should be very exciting! LPT, the visiting faculty
and the resident faculty are all eagerly looking forward to working with
you on the web and in person during the summer institute.
Best Regards,
Dr. Lindy Eyster
ESI98 Academic Director
1578 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138