Breakout Session 1 (by grade level):

• Increasing student motivation
• Engaging the interest of under-represented groups in science, technology, engineering, and math
• Evaluating impact on K-12 students
• Building better university-community partnerships
• Sustaining the program after funding ends
• Assessing inquiry-based learning
• Disseminating lessons

Breakout Session 2 (by role):

K-12 Teachers:

• Professional Development: how can the GK12 programs help teachers become better prepared for their classrooms and their career advancement?
• Dissemination:
  • Preparing portfolios, presenting talks and posters, authoring manuscripts for publication
  • Sharing lessons among peers and leading in the professional development of colleagues
• Teacher-fellow partnership: roles, expectations, planning
• Recruiting teachers and fellows
  

Graduate and Undergraduate Students:

• Professional Development: how can the GK12 programs help fellows become better prepared for their classrooms and their career advancement?
• Using the GK12 experience to transform graduate and undergraduate science education at your institution
• Mentoring K-12 students
• Addressing disruptive, underachieving, and/or poorly prepared students
• Preparing portfolios, presenting talks and posters, authoring manuscripts for publication
• Teacher-fellow partnership: roles, expectations, planning
  

PIs and Program Coordinators:

• Sustainability/Institutionalization
• Using the GK12 experience to transform graduate and undergraduate science education at your institution
• Building better university-community partnerships
• Engaging the interest of under-represented groups in science, technology, engineering, and math
• Teacher-fellow partnership: roles, expectations, planning

Breakout Session 3:

Based on the best ideas that you've heard this weekend, write your own pie-in-the-sky math/science education grant, or write a letter to your school board explaining what you need to make your teaching more effective!