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Southeastern Regional GK-12 Conference
October 22, 2004
• Reitz Union, University of
Florida
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Gainesville,
Florida
Hosted by SPICE, the University
of Florida’s GK-12 program
Overview
The purpose of this conference was to gather public school teachers,
graduate fellows, and program administrators from across the
southeast to share best practices and discuss solutions to common
challenges of GK-12 sites. We also aimed to foster networks of
neighboring sites, allowing exchange of personnel or materials and
coordination of future region-wide activities.
The program started with an evening social on Thursday, October
21. On Friday we started with a plenary session and then broke
into discussion groups. A poster session followed lunch, and
another round of discussions completed the day’s activities.
We were most interested in how to improve GK-12 programs from the
perspective of teachers and graduate fellows. Therefore, discussions
were targeted to and led by these participants (not by program
administrators). Although anyone was invited to attend any discussion
session, some sessions were designed primarily for teachers or
primarily for fellows.
All participants left with something tangible. In particular,
we facilitated dissemination of lesson plans and inquiry-based
activities at the poster session and by transfer of electronic
files.
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