Southwest Ohio Science Institutes: A Partnership Model for Teachers' Professional Development

I am part of a team of science faculty, education faculty, and public school teachers that runs the Southwest Ohio Science Institutes. These are summer classes in science for teachers in grades 3-6. With the help of sizeable grants from the Ohio Department of Education, we have taught about 400 teachers over the past two summers. I will talk about the process of working in this partnership and present some preliminary data gathered from the participating teachers and their students.