Workshops

• Grade K-4 Workshops

  full-day workshops for Grades K-4 teachers offered at different sites throughout the year; each of the four workshops focuses on particular standards and Elementary Assessment content strands

• Grade 5-8 Workshops

  full-day workshops for grades 5-8 teachers focusing on instructional strategies that will lead to improved student performance on GEPA

• Grade 9-12 Workshops

  full-day workshops for high school teachers focusing on instructional strategies that will lead to improved student performance on HSPA

• FAMILY MATH

  three-day workshop that prepares teachers to conduct six evening sessions on math for elementary school children and their parents

• FAMILY SCIENCE

  four-day workshop that prepares teachers to conduct six evening sessions on science for elementary school children and their parents

• Workshops for Grade 7-12 Science Teachers

  a series of one-day, hands-on science workshops, for middle and high school science teachers. Make the content come alive for your students, with new activities and techniques.

Conferences

• Good Ideas in Teaching Precalculus

  one-day conference each March for high school and college teachers of precalculus, trigonometry, algebra, calculus, probability and statistics, and discrete mathematics

• K-12 Mega-Conference in Discrete Mathematics

  one-day conference each December for K-12 teachers interested in discrete mathematics, and for high school students

Summer Institutes

• Institutes for New Teachers of Mathematics and Science

  two parallel week-long summer institutes -- one for new middle school and high school math teachers, and one for new middle school B C C and high school science teachers

• Problem Solving with Discrete Mathematics workshops from the Leadership Program in Discrete Mathematics

  Summer institutes with school-year follow-up sessions for teachers

• Discrete Mathematics in Your Region

  the institutes of the Leadership Program (see above) can be replicated in your region, as a summer institute or as a sequence of one- or two-day sessions during the school year.

  For further information, call Janice Kowalczyk at 401/841-5583 or email kowalcjn@ride.ri.net
  

• Crash Course in Discrete Mathematics

  four-day institute for high school teachers

• DIMACS Connect Institute

  four week education and research program for high school teachers in discrete mathematics, held in parallel with a research institute, providing opportunities to meet active mathematicians and doing research projects with researchers as mentors