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A
Description
of Inquiry
Workshops
and
Programs
Which
Districts
Are Eligible?
How to Apply
Institute
Faculty
Institute
Advisory
Board
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Faculty
at the Institute for Inquiry
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Marilyn
Austin, Teacher-in-Residence
maustin@exploratorium.edu
Marilyn Austin joined the Institute for Inquiry staff after twenty-six years of teaching elementary school. She collaborates on programs and workshops with IFI Teaching staff and serves as a liaison between Marin County school districts and the Exploratorium. Through her involvement with the Marin Community Foundation, she leads Exploratorium technical assistance in Marin County elementary schools. She also facilitates an Exploratorium teacher research group, which is a group of local teachers interested in increasing their knowledge about an inquiry-based classroom.
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Bronwyn
Bevan, Assistant Director
Exploratorium Center for Teaching and Learning
bronwynb@exploratorium.edu
Bronwyn Bevan is the Associate Director of the Exploratorium Center for Learning and Teaching. Her projects include Director of the NSF-funded CLT, Center for Informal Learning and Schools; co-PI on the LIGO Educational Outreach project; co-PI on the Coalition for Science After School project; and leader of the CILS Informal Learning Certificate professional development program for museum educators. Her main area of interest is supporting teacher practice, student learning, and curricular design through the development of relationships between formal and nonformal institutions. Bevan worked for EDC for four years where she conducted classroom-based research on teacher-artist partnerships, as well as institutional development between schools and cultural institutions.
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Barry
Kluger-Bell, Assistant Director
for Science at the Institute for
Inquiry
barryk@exploratorium.edu
Barry holds a Ph.D. in physics. Barry became involved with inquiry-based education in 1971 when he worked as a research educator with David Hawkins at the Mountain View Center in Boulder, Colorado. He is the author of The Exploratorium Guide to Scale and Structure: Activities for the Elementary Classroom, published in 1995 by Heinemann Press. More recently, Barry provided technical assistance to WGBH¹s Investigating Classrooms video project and is on the advisory board for WNET¹s Learning Science Through Inquiry workshops. He also served on an advisory panel for CPB/Annenberg¹s video project for teaching science content to teachers.
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Liz
Cruger, Program Coordinator
lizc@exploratorium.edu
Liz creates and maintains all administrative systems for the Institute. She handles all workshop and program logistics, and is the primary contact for program participants, locally and nationally. Liz has worn a variety of hats within the museum world. From spending the night next to dinosaur bones to dissecting cow eyeballs, her days have been varied and interesting. In Chicago, Liz worked at The Field Museum, The Museum of Science and Industry, and as an actress (singing about science) at many museums and schools.
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Pat
guides the implementation of the Institute programming, and
works with school districts and science reform projects to
match participants with Institute for Inquiry workshops. Pat
has over ten years experience as a bilingual elementary educator
and four years in museum education. Prior to joining the Institute
she served as the Director of Education at Coyote Point Museum
for Environmental Education which connects school groups,
families and individuals to the natural world through programs
and exhibitions.
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Alicia
manages materials for Institute for Inquiry workshops, and
customizes follow-up services. She has found inquisitiveness
essential to all the work she has done, which among other
things has included; park ranger, architectural photographer,
environmental educator, and web designer. She also works as
a restoration intern for the Presidio juggling her time between
the prolific possibilities of Exploratorium materials and
the native habitat restoration efforts of the Golden Gate
National Recreation Area.
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Karen Wilkinson and Mike Petrich are Science Educators for the Institute For Inquiry and project directors for a several NSF and NEA funded science, art, and technology programs at the Exploratorium. They draw on more than ten years of working as a team, integrating science and art and technology curriculum for in-school, and out-of-school learning environments. Of particular interest to them is the functional design of informal learning environments to foster creative thinking, and inquiry learning.
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Lynn
Rankin, Director of the Institute
for Inquiry
lynnr@exploratorium.edu
Lynn began her teaching career as an elementary teacher in the San Francisco Public Schools. She got captivated by "hands-on science" when she brought her 6th grade class to a course at the Exploratorium and observed the kind of curiosity and enthusiasm for learning she had been trying to cultivate in her classroom. She joined the Exploratorium staff in 1975. Since then she has developed science and professional development curriculum, led workshops for students, teachers and professional developers and been involved in program
design. She helped found and served on the faculty of the
Association of Science and Technology Centers' Professional
Development Institutes for museum educators. She serves on the faculty of the Center for Informal Learning and Schools, a
collaboration between the Exploratorium, Kings College and the
University of California at Santa Cruz. She served on the Committee on the Development of an Addendum to the National Science Education Standards on Scientific Inquiry and the National Institute for Science Education's Committee on Professional Development.
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Fred
was the Education Director at the Science Discovery Museum
in Acton, Massachusetts, before joining the Institute for
Inquiry staff. In addition to teaching biology and math, he
has developed curricula, taught distance learning courses,
and led professional development inquiry workshops. He is
currently completing a doctoral thesis at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education.
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Buff
is responsible for turning IFI workshops into written curriculum
and Web pages for the IFI Web site. Before joining IFI, Buff
taught kindergarten for nine years and prior to that was a
professional writer and editor. He is the author of two nonfiction
books for children, the former editor of Learning and
Family Learning magazines, and a former columnist
for Parenting magazine.
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Last
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