P.O. Box 2663
Chinle , AZ 86503
USA
Phone: 928-674-9730
FAX: 928-674-9741
Contact: Melba Martin, Ed. D.
Areas of Expertise: 
Earth Science
Environmental Concerns
K-12 Education. .

Contact: Keri Garver Hallau
Areas of Expertise: 
Keri Garver Hallau is an Online Science Curriculum Development Specialist at the Montana State University Department of Physics. She began writing curriculum materials for Project WET, the Worldwide Water Education foundation, and now for various NASA missions. Her work has evolved to include online curriculum materials, and specifically interactive animations exploring concepts relevant to those missions. She has created curriculum materials and interactives, maintained websites, and provided other support for the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan, the Chandrayaan-1 (Indian Space Research Organisation) mission to the Moon, the New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond, the Van Allen Probes mission exploring the Van Allen radiation belts around Earth, as well as the MESSENGER mission to Mercury.

75 Broad Street
New York, NY
USA
Phone: (202) 257-2157
Contact: Rosemary Florez
Areas of Expertise: 
Educational marketing & curriculum development for K-12 (mapped to National and State Standards) and post-secondary and early adult educational marketing and outreach.

Contact: Keri Garver Hallau
Areas of Expertise: 
Keri Garver Hallau is an Online Science Curriculum Development Specialist at the Montana State University Department of Physics. She began writing curriculum materials for Project WET, the Worldwide Water Education foundation, and now for various NASA missions. Her work has evolved to include online curriculum materials, and specifically interactive animations exploring concepts relevant to those missions. She has created curriculum materials and interactives, maintained websites, and provided other support for the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan, the Chandrayaan-1 (Indian Space Research Organisation) mission to the Moon, the New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond, the Van Allen Probes mission exploring the Van Allen radiation belts around Earth, as well as the MESSENGER mission to Mercury.

407 E 12th St., #1FNE
New York, NY 10009
USA
Phone: (646) 283-6281
Contact: Elizabeth Kennick
Areas of Expertise: 
-STEM education grades 5-12
-Professional development workshops, curricula, webinars for STEM teachers -Stimulating student interest in .
-personal and experimental flight opportunities involving high altitude balloons, gliders, parabolic and suborbital flight -hands-on work with data sensors and remote device control -payload specification, design, integration, testing, change control and operation -data capture and analysis -remote communications -opportunities to meet and interact with scientists and developers at NASA and commercial space companies -unique teaching materials and design contests for the classroom.
Teachers In Space, Inc. sparks a transfer of passion for space science and exploration from teachers to their pupils, preparing and encouraging students to pursue further education and exciting, rewarding careers in the emerging space industry.

Department of Geological Sciences
500 W University Ave.
El Paso, TX 79968
USA
Phone: (915) 747-6085
FAX: (915) 747-5073
Contact: Laura Serpa
Areas of Expertise: 
Geophysics, teacher education

604 S. 26th St
Laramie, WY 82070
USA
Phone: (520) 975-3826
FAX: (866) 374-5513
Contact: Dr. Stephanie Slater
Areas of Expertise: 
After 20 years in the field, CAPER is recognized as the world's leading Astronomy & Earth Sciences education research team. Leveraging expertise in the cognitive sciences and education research and real classrooms, we provide resources for K-Grad faculty via high-quality, research-based classroom curricula and pragmatic professional development activities.
 
While CAPER is experienced in a variety of research-based activities in the Earth and Space Sciences, for the purposes of this solicitation we are interested in engaging with other groups related to three specific projects. These three projects focus on disseminating cross-divisional NASA mission science to large numbers of faculty and students, are highly sustainable, and have been reiteratively piloted through previous funding cycles. Each project is ready to launch Fall 2015, and includes solid, authentic partnerships. Perhaps most importantly for teams that are looking to provide a high return on investment, extensive piloting has allowed CAPER to engineer these projects in such a way that they return impressive impacts for relatively small expenditures of funds.
 
1) MSI-PD: Professional Development at Minority Serving Institutions. We have developed a committed collaboration of more than a dozen, primarily minority-serving professional societies and post-secondary institutions, interested in building upon the decade of grant funding that CAPER has received provide professional development for college faculty. We have spent several years building our collaboration's relationships, and piloting research-based PD formats that effectively work to bring NASA-mission data into introductory science, college level courses, and courses for pre-service science teachers, at institutions that serve large numbers of minority students.
 
2) BEEPO: Professional Development for EPO, Informal Science and In-Service Educators. We have developed and piloted the institutional infrastructure to provide professional development that will allow working education professional engage in NASA mission science and best practices in science education, through graduate, distance education. Building upon 15 years of providing NASA mission science and curriculum products to in-service teachers in online formats, this project expands the opportunity to educators who serve in a variety of formal and informal roles. Infrastructure to provide certifications and advanced degrees, and to facilitate credit transfer is in place.
 
3) Earth Science Tool Kit: Next Generation Curriculum Materials for ASTRO, GEO, OCEAN, AND MET 101. This project builds upon CAPER's history of bringing NASA mission data to over 35,000 ASTRO 101 students every year through our textbooks, lab manuals, and ancillary materials. Building upon nearly two decades of curriculum development funding, our intention is to update and expand those materials, to include all of the Earth and Space Sciences. Working with a nationwide collaboration of geoscience educators and publishers, we are seeking a partnership that will provide NASA-mission data experts who can inform this work.

4601 DTC Blvd
Suite 500
Denver, CO 80237
USA
Phone: (303) 632-5572
Contact: Whitney Cobb
Areas of Expertise: 
McREL International is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan education research and development corporation. We were founded in 1966 to turn knowledge about what works in education into practical guidance for educators in both formal and informal settings. We are/have been active partners in a variety of NASA Discovery missions—Dawn, Stardust-NExT, EPOXI, Genesis—as well as other NASA projects. Designing Effective Science Instruction, offering a pedagogical framework that supports educator effectiveness and learner achievement published by NSTA Press, is a McREL mainstay.
Expertise includes
• Professional Development and Curriculum Design
• Educational Research and Evaluation
• Social media and multimedia communications and production
• Digital Solutions/Blended Learning
• Standards: NGSS/Common Core/AAAS

One UTSA Circle
RSC-Education
San Antonio, TX 78249
USA
Phone: (210) 458-6695
FAX: (210) 458-6888
Contact: Juliet Ray
Areas of Expertise: 
science education, hispanic-serving institution, culturally relevant pedagogy

2609 University, Suite 3.118
Austin, TX 78751
USA
Phone: (512) 475-6765
FAX: (512) 471-5600
Contact: Sandra Preston
Areas of Expertise: 
K-12 Teacher Professional Development customized to NASA scientists research, K-12 student field experiences, distance learning

7140 SW Macadam Ave
Portland, OR 97219
USA
Phone: (503) 293-1994
FAX: (503) 293-1970
Contact: Ms. Tullan Spitz
Areas of Expertise: 
video production, website production, data-driven interactives for learners, teacher professional development, informal and formal STEM education OPB was a partner/content developer on NASA GCCE funded "Carbon Connections" and has produced many projects funded by NSF for formal and informal learners and teachers. Please contact me for a full list.

3350 Mitchell Lane
Boulder, CO 80301
USA
Contact: Emily CoBabe-Ammann
Areas of Expertise: 
STEM education and training (formal, informal, competency-based), higher education with an emphasis on diversity, educational evaluation, federal program office and team management and support.

Science Center
1100 Rockhurst Road
Kansas City, MO 64110
USA
Phone: (816) 501-4006
FAX: (816) 501-4802
URL: Team Science
Contact: Mary Haskins, Ph.D.
Areas of Expertise: 
The Rockhurst University team of scientists and educators are experienced in:
1) providing grant-funded STEM programs for in-service teachers (20+ years of externally funded summer programs),
2) designing and delivering quality programs for graduate credit in physical, life, earth/space science, technology, engineering and mathematics,
3) providing high-quality personalized classroom mentoring during the academic year,
4) designing and delivering informal science programs for K-12 students, and
5) working with skilled external evaluators and a vast network of K-12 schools.

University of California, Berkeley
1 Centennial Drive #5200
Berkeley, CA 94720-5200
USA
Phone: (510) 643-6912
Contact: Toshi Komatsu
Areas of Expertise: 
The Lawrence Hall of Science is the public science center of the University of California, Berkeley. We have been providing parents, kids, and educators with opportunities to engage with science since 1968, both formally and informally. Curriculum projects developed in partnership with NASA include: Full Option Science System (FOSS), Global Systems Science (GSS), Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS), Hands-On Universe (HOU), and interactive live planetarium shows.

1801 East Cotati Avenue
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
USA
Phone: (707) 664-2655
Contact: Lynn Cominsky
Areas of Expertise: 
The mission of the SSU E/PO group is to develop exciting formal and informal educational materials that inspire students in grades 5-14 to pursue STEM careers, to train teachers nation-wide in the classroom use of these materials, and to enhance science literacy for the general public. We also have demonstrated expertise in online teacher training and curriculum development, scientific videogame development, development of interactive hardware interfaces for classroom laboratories and rocket payloads. Our group runs a 14 inch robotic telescope that is part of the Global Telescope Network and has also launched a PocketQube satellite that we successfully operated and which returned data from low-Earth orbit.

NASA JSC, code XI
2101 NASA Parkway
Houston, TX 77058
USA
Phone: (281) 244-8848; (281) 482-4665
Contact: Susan Runco; Paige Graff
Areas of Expertise: 
• Access to a unique NASA resource, the extraterrestrial sample collections including Lunar and Meteorite Sample Disks • Authentic Research Experiences • Live Interactive Classroom Connection Webinars connecting Subject Matter Experts with classrooms nationwide reaching 100's of students and their teachers (300 - 1000+) at a time • Professional Development (both online and in-person) including Lunar and Meteorite Sample Disk certification • Development of Standards-aligned curricular materials that model scientific practices and highlight SMD content • Facilitating and organizing large educational/outreach events such as NASA Space Science Day events by sharing SMD experts/content and involving middle school students, university students, pre-service & in-service educators, and families • Earth Science and Remote Sensing from the International Space Station used for Earth studies and/or planetary comparison connections • Social Media (@NASA_ARES) to communicate NASA's SMD science conducted by JSC and partner scientists

Steward Observatory
933 N. Cherry Ave
Tucson, AZ 85721
USA
Phone: (520) 621-4079
FAX: (520) 621-9843
Contact: Dr. Don McCarthy
Areas of Expertise: 
astronomy; engineering; JWST's Origins themes (exoplanets, galaxies, cosmology, star formation) Girl Scouts of the USA "Train the Trainers".

390 Ashton Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112
USA
Phone: (415) 715-1425
FAX: (415) 337-5205
Contact: Greg Schultz
Areas of Expertise: 
Long and successful history of partnering with and supporting NASA science education efforts. Expertise and experience in: (1) Development of astronomy education resources and materials, (2) design and implementation of professional development for science educators (formal and informal), (3) maintaining and supporting large networks of amateur astronomers nationwide (e.g. NASA Night Sky Network), (4) design and implementation of professional development in best practices of teaching for early career astronomers, (5) NGSS science teacher support and development of materials, and (6) convening meetings and conferences of scientists and educators where education outreach best practices are shared.

The STEM Center @SIUE
Campus Box 2224
Edwardsville, IL 62025
USA
Phone: (618) 307-6546
Contact: Pamela Gay
Areas of Expertise: 
Citizen Science
Live Online Events
Online Professional Development
Public communications (online & at large events)
Research into motivations and behavior.

6740 Cortona Drive Ste 102
Goleta, CA 93117
USA
Phone: (805) 880-1600
FAX: (805) 961-1792
Contact: Tim Lister
Areas of Expertise: 
Global telescope network
Robotic telescopes
Time domain astronomy
Near Earth Objects
Web-based observing and education
Citizen Science projects