Announcing Our 2018 Beaver Island Institute

Experience a unique, one-week (August 12-17, 2018) field experience at CMU’s Biological Station on Beaver Island of Lake Michigan. Valued at nearly $1000 per participant, this program is generously sponsored by the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation.

Priority will be given to teachers from the Great Lakes Bay Region of Michigan, whose costs will be completely covered by the grant: Arenac, Bay, Clare, Gladwin, Gratiot, Isabella, Midland and Saginaw counties.

We welcome teachers from areas outside the Great Lakes Bay Region of Michigan to apply as well. If the team is accepted to participate, a nominal fee of $50 per teacher will be requested.

Working in pairs, this workshop is designed for science and ELA educators based in the same middle school. Teachers will study ecosystems, technology, and strategies for integrating reading, writing, critical thinking into the classroom.

Participants will be responsible for transportation to and from Charlevoix, MI, to ride the ferry to Beaver Island. All instructional costs, materials, and room and board on the island are then funded through the grant.

Participate in:

• Individual and small group work
• Field activities to promote discussion and collaboration
• Science and literary activities
• Collaborative, inquiry-based units identifying key standards from the Next Generation Science Standards, Common Core Literacy Standards, and ISTE NETS (technology) standards
• A series of appropriate lessons, labs, and activities for the 2018-19 school year
• Integrative teaching practices to integrate mobile technologies (smartphones and tablets, as well as apps) into teaching and as a learning tool for students?

• Arenac
• Bay
• Clare
• Gladwin
• Gratiot
• Isabella
• Midland
• Saginaw

Apply by completing this brief Google form. In addition to basic contact info and demographics, applicants will reply to the following in 500 words or less:

• When and how, specifically, you will plan to work together toward integration in the 2017-18 school year?
• How your participation in this institute will help you meet shared goals for the integration of science and literacy standards?

Deadline: 5 p.m. Friday, March 30, 2018. Participants who are selected for the institute will be notified by mid-April. SCECHs and graduate credit will be available at additional cost (pending approval).

Questions?

Troy Hicks, Ph.D.
Director, Chippewa River Writing Project
troy.hicks@cmich.edu

Sponsored by the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation and CMU’s College of Education and Human Services