Lead Teacher Camp - June 2023

QuarkNet Lead Teacher Camp

June 10-11, 2023

Small URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/QNLTC2023

Purpose:

  • Rejuvenate the lead teacher program
  • Share successes and challenges
  • Help QuarkNet staff update lead teacher expectations
  • Help QuarkNet staff prepare for future Lead Teacher Camps

Agenda

Saturday June 9

Time (EDT) Activity Resources and remarks
-- Breakfast in hotel  
08:45 Meet in St. Mary's lobby, go to Reyniers Rides available or walk
09:00 Greetings, Intros, and Coffee
10:00 Small group discussion
  • What do you do as a lead teacher?
  • Report out
10:45 Break  
11:00

Small group discussion

  • What’s working well at your center, and what needs to be improved?
  • Report out

Preview of afternoon activities

11:45 Lunch
  • Pizza & salad
  • Center stories
12:45 walk to Nuclear Lab Nieuwland Science Hall
13:00 Tour: ND Nuclear Lab

Required by safety protocol: 

  • closed toed shoes
  • long pants/skirt
  • shoulders covered
14:00 Address 11:00 session responses  
14:45

Work session (in small groups), break as needed

  • Inspect "Lead Teacher Expectations" and rewrite document for current conditions and without reference to what year it is for the center
  • Prepare Google doc or slides
16:15

Present & discuss Lead Teacher Expectations documents

Preview Sunday - mention recruitment

17:00

Wrap-up & head to hotel 

 
19:00 Dinner @ Tippecanoe

 

Sunday June 10

Time (EDT) Activity Resources and remarks
-- Breakfast in hotel  
11:00 Begin: address Parking Lot Coffee too
11:30

Brainstorming

  • Recruitment and Retention of teachers in centers
  • Other issues facing centers and potential solutions
  • Sample flyer from JHU site
12:15 General discussion What should the next Lead Teacher Camp look like?
12:50 Walk to lunch Penny, Renee, and Daniel to airport
13:15 Informal working lunch Rohr’s
15:00 A walk around campus - guided tour

Guides:

  • Pat Mooney
  • Dan Walsh

Jim, Ray, and Laurie to airport

after

free time  

dinner together for remnant

 

 

Resources

Contacts

QuarkNet Staff:
Mark Adams: adams@fnal.gov  
Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Spencer Pasero: spasero@fnal.gov 
Shane Wood: swood5@nd.edu 

Additional Contacts