Andrew Fraknoi is an astronomer and science educator who is known for his skill in interpreting astronomical discoveries and ideas in everyday language. Fraknoi is the Chair of the Astronomy Program at Foothill College near San Francisco, where he teaches courses on “astronomy and physics for poets” attended by 900+ students each year. In 2007, he was selected as Professor of the Year for the state of California by the Carnegie Endowment for Higher Education.
For 14 years, Fraknoi served as the Executive Director of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, an international scientific and
Arden Bucklin-Sporer has worked with green schoolyards and public school gardens in San Francisco for 15 years, building an award-winning school garden program as a public school parent and working closely with school districts at the local, state and national level in order to promote and advocate on behalf of outdoor classrooms. Winner of the 2000 Give Back to Grow National Garden Educator of the Year Award, Arden has worked to integrate school gardens and outdoor classrooms with the broader goals of the San Francisco Unified School District. Arden is SFGSA’s first executive director,
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Betsy Rupp Fulwiler is the developer of the nationally recognized Expository Writing and Science Notebooks Program, a component of Seattle Public Schools’ Pre-K–5 Inquiry-Based Science Program (a Local Systemic Change initiative funded by the National Science Foundation) and author of Writing in Science in Action: Strategies, Tools, and Classroom Video (Heinemann, 2011) and Writing in Science: How to Scaffold Instruction to Support Learning (Heinemann, 2007), which she wrote as part of another NSF grant. She has presented at regional and national conferences and consults both re
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The California Institute for Biodiversity is the sponsor of the namebage holders for the 2012 California Science Education Conference.
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