The
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
[www.ascd.org]
The Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development (ASCD) is a unique international, nonprofit, nonpartisan
association of professional educators whose jobs cross all grade
levels and subject areas. In their diversity, our members share
a profound commitment to excellence in education. Founded in 1943,
ASCD's mission is to forge covenants in teaching and learning for
the success of all learners.
Coastal Resource Management Program (CRMP)
[www.soest.hawaii.edu/SEAGRANT/pacific_program/
pacific_program_history.html]
One of Sea Grant's Pacific Programs, CRMP, is an outgrowth of the
resource assessment projects funded by the Army Corps of Engineers
in the 1980s. The program works with on-island extension agents
and island governments to develop, improve, and implement coastal
management programs with an emphasis on conservation and management
of island resources.
Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
[www.ccsso.org]
The Council of Chief State School Officers
(CCSSO) is a nationwide, nonprofit organization composed of public
officials who lead the departments responsible for elementary and
secondary education in the states, the U.S.-affiliated jurisdictions,
the District of Columbia, and the Department of Defense Education
Activity. In representing the chief education officers, the CCSSO
works on behalf of the state agencies that serve pre K-12 students
throughout the nation.
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit
the Environment (GLOBE)
[www.globe.gov/]
GLOBE is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists
working together to study and understand the global environment.
Students and teachers from more than 8,500 schools in 85 countries
are working with research scientists to learn more about our planet.
GLOBE students make environmental observations at or near their
schools and report their data through the Internet. Scientists use
GLOBE data in their research and provide feedback to the students
to enrich their science education. Global images based on GLOBE
student data are displayed on the World Wide Web, enabling students
and other visitors to visualize the student environmental observations.
GLOBE science and education activities help students reach higher
levels of achievement in science and math. GLOBE helps to increase
the environmental awareness of all individuals while increasing
our scientific understanding of the Earth.
The Nature Conservancy
[www.tnc.org/]
The mission of The Nature Conservancy, a private, international
conservation group, is to preserve plants, animals, and natural
communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting
the lands and waters they need to survive.
Pacific Island Network (PIN)
[www.soest.hawaii.edu/SEAGRANT/pacific_program/
pacific_program_history.html]
The Pacific Island Network is one of the Pacific Programs under
Hawaii Sea Grant. In partnership with island governments, PIN's
mission is to ensure the long-term health of tropical coastal ecosystems
through outreach activities directed at user communities and resource
management agencies. PIN uses a network of extension agents and
specialists to provide technical assistance and training that builds
on-island expertise and disseminates information, shares and leverages
available resources, and facilitates communication.
The Pacific Program (Hawaii Sea Grant)
[www.soest.hawaii.edu/SEAGRANT/pacific_program/
pacific_program_history.html]
Established in 1966 by the U.S. Congress, the National Sea Grant
College Program promotes the development, management, and conservation
of the nation's coastal and ocean resources through university-based
programs in ocean research, education, and extension. Since 1970,
the Sea Grant College Program at the University of Hawaii (Hawaii
Sea Grant) has carried out this overall mission in the State of
Hawaii; the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI);
the territories of Guam and American Samoa; and the Freely-Associated
States of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic
of Palau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI).
The Hawaii Sea Grant Extension Service, the outreach
and public education arm of Hawaii Sea Grant, provides the vital
link between university research and a diverse ocean-oriented clientele.
Extension agents and specialists in Hawaii and other Pacific islands
provide technology transfer and community outreach services. Extension
programs are planned and implemented in partnership with a variety
of federal, state, and county agencies, as well as with the private
sector, community groups, and nonprofit organizations. Extension
funding for staffing and project expenses is supplemented by substantial
matching, both in-kind and monetary, from public and private sources.
Sea Grant continues to train local personnel who
are indigenous to Pacific island cultures, with on-island agencies
as counterparts of extension programs. This cadre of local experts
is an asset to the management and sustainable use of coastal resources.
Pacific Region Aquaculture Extension Service
(PRAES)
[www.soest.hawaii.edu/SEAGRANT/pacific_program/
pacific_program_5year_plan.html#Aquaculture]
PRAES, formerly called Pacific Aquaculture Development Program (PADP),
is one of the Pacific Programs under the Hawaii Sea Grant. PRAES
has a long-term goal to assist Pacific island governments in developing
sustainable aquaculture enterprises by providing the technical support
necessary to ensure their success. This is accomplished through
information dissemination, technical assistance, planning and coordination,
and applied research and development funding.
RARE Center for Tropical Conservation
[www.rarecenter.org/index.cfm]
RARE Center for Tropical Conservation's mission is to protect wildlands
that represent globally significant biological diversity by empowering
local people to benefit from the environmental preservation. RARE
pursues this mission by working in partnership with local communities,
non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders to develop
and replicate locally managed conservation strategies. Using creative
techniques, RARE raises public awareness about the value of biodiversity
and gets local people involved in protecting their natural resources.
RARE promotes sustainable economic alternatives—primarily through
ecotourism—to link community development with conservation.
Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment
(SPaRCE)
[www.evac.ou.edu/sparce]
SPaRCE is an international collaborative effort whose goals are
to:
- Increase the number of rain gauges, as well
as other meteorological instrumentation, across the Pacific and
incorporate collected observations into a comprehensive Pacific
database to be used for climate research purposes.
- Foster interest and increase the awareness
among students and teachers of the need for cooperation among
different nations in investigating potential climate change.
- Educate students and teachers about the importance
of rainfall (particularly in the Pacific region) for climate studies.
- Provide the students and teachers with an opportunity
to make a major contribution to the global climate research effort
by collecting and analyzing Pacific meteorological data.
- Foster scientific and cultural exchange between
students from different countries.
When schools join SPaRCE, they are provided with
the information that they need to participate in the project in
the form of a series of educational workbooks and videos to help
teachers and students better understand the weather and climate
of their region and to teach them the importance of properly siting
their rain gauges (which are also provided by SPaRCE at no cost
to the participants) and properly maintain the equipment. After
schools start recording data and mailing their data sheets to SPaRCE,
more educational materials and instrumentation are provided.
South Pacific Regional Environment Programme
(SPREP)
[www.sidsnet.org/pacific/sprep/]
SPREP is a regional organization established by the governments
and administrations of the Pacific region to look after its environment.
This is reflected in the mission statement of SPREP, which calls
on the organization, "to promote cooperation in the South Pacific
region and to provide assistance in order to protect and improve
its environment and to ensure sustainable development for present
and future generations." SPREP's members total 26, consisting
of all 22 Pacific island countries and territories, and four developed
countries with direct interests in the region: Australia, France,
New Zealand, and the United States.
Towards Other Planetary Systems (TOPS)
[www.ifa.hawaii.edu/tops/tops.htm]
The National Science Foundation has funded a five-year program (1999-2004)
for Leadership Teacher Enhancement in Astronomy at the Institute
for Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa. The workshops are
designed to help teachers in Hawaii and the U.S. affiliates in the
Pacific region acquire basic astronomy skills. Objectives of the
project include strengthening teacher instructional skills through
experience with research, assessment, and hands-on activities using
state-of-the-art equipment. Follow-up will be provided by establishing
a support network among educators and the local astronomical scientific
community.
Upward Bound Math/Science Program
[emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/upwardbound/home.htm]
Leeward Community College's Upward Bound Math/Science Program is
one of many programs nationwide funded by the U.S. Department of
Education. The program is designed to strengthen the mathematics
and science skills of participating students who have an interest
in either subject area. The goal of the program is to help students
recognize and develop their potential to excel in mathematics and
science and to encourage them to pursue post-secondary degrees in
these fields.
Services provided by the program include:
- Summer programs of intensive math and science
training
- Year-round counseling and advisement
- Exposure to university faculty who conduct
research in mathematics and science
- Computer training
- Participant-conducted scientific research under
the guidance of a faculty member or graduate student serving as
the participant's mentor
There are also Upward Bound programs in the FSM
and RMI, located at the College of the Marshall Islands and the
four campuses of COM-FSM.
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