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8/14/2019 North Carolina Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Center 2007 Report
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From the President
2007 Annual Report
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North Carolina Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Center
was launched in 2002 to promote and support innovation in science, mathematics, and
technology learning in the states elementary and secondary schools. Were doing that by
serving as a catalyst or innovation and change in education; advocating or research-based
instructional programs in schools; providing tools, learning methods, and technical help
to educators; and recruiting community and business leaders to encourage and promote
advanced science and mathematics learning at all ages.
From the President
Teacher Link
LASER
Science Competitions
SMT Awards
Collaborations
Financial Statements
Board o Directors
Thanks to Jason Painter orhis photo contributions.
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Contents
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From the President
At rst glance these words seem to be at odds with
one another. But when you consider that in order to
be competitive you need to be collaborative (and vice
versa) the two words old nicely together.
Trying to predict the uture is not easy. We canask what we think are the right questions, but as the
president o MCNC Joe Freddoso likes to point out the
world is moving at Internet speed and the rest o us
are playing catch up. Educating a student in technology
that is evolving so quickly that by the time the lesson
plan is nished, the technology has been revised,
revamped, bought, sold, merged, and then becomes
obsolete is a dicult task.
So technology is just the tool. Its how you use the
technology thats important: How to use technologyto collaborate and how to compete in an expanding
marketplace.
This past year, the North Carolina Science,
Mathematics, and Technology Education Center has
been engaged in many dierent projects with many
dierent groups in order to ulll our mission o
enabling our students to thrive in a workorce that
ew o us can even imagine.
The Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and
Accountability gave the Center an opportunity toinfuence how education is assessed and how it will
impact North Carolina particularly in SMT areas. The
commission was created out o a desire by the N.C.
State Board o Education to look at issues in account-
ability. While exploring issues o accountability we
must also consider instruction, curriculum design, andhow to measure student perormance. In essence,
we had to look at the oundation o the educational
system. The mortar o this oundation is the creation
o uture-ready students. Language such as 21st
Century Skills and globally competitive speaks to
the heart o the SMT Centers mission. You cannot pre-
pare a student or the uture without including science,
mathematics, and technology in the mix.
We have also been in partnership with the
University o Washington and the Stanord ResearchInstitute to develop an evaluation instrument to assess
learning through hands-on, inquiry-based means. We
are identiying districts to participate in research on
assessment tools, providing advice on research eorts,
and gathering organizations and policymakers in N.C.
interested in improving student assessment.
Through these eorts and the eorts listed in the
ollowing report, the Center has gained considerable
visibility and acknowledgement that it is a valued player
in SMT-related issues. continued on next page
Samuel H. Houston Jr., Ed.D.
President and CEO
Whenever the conversation turns to futureworkforce issues, the two words I hear most
repeated are competitive and collaborative.
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From the President
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continued
ConveneIn the past two years o our partnership with the
National Science Resources Center, the LASERInstitute has gathered more than 30 North Carolina
school districts to create strategic inquiry-based
science education reorm plans. Working with these
districts, the Center is reaching out to nearly 500,000
students. See page 6.
CompetitionThrough unding by the North Carolina General
Assembly, we were able to create the North Carolina
Science Competition Program Center in order to providemore students across the state with the benets o
science competitions. We have also sponsored teacher
proessional development to train them to coach and
direct science competitions. See page 7.
CelebrateIn April, the SMT Center held the second annual
SMT Celebration. More than 400 guests attended
our celebration o the organizations and people who
contribute to the health o SMT education in our state.
We recognized those who have received national or
statewide honors. This year we had our own inaugural
award ceremony. Dr. Queta Bond, who was instrumentalin the creation o the SMT Center, received the Order
o the Long Lea Pine rom the Governors Oce or her
commitment to science education in North Carolina.
See page 8.
CollaborationThe SMT Center, in partnership with the Public School
Forum, has developed and organized science and math-
ematics teacher training or the Collaborative Project.
We provided 98 teachers rom Mitchell, Caswell,Warren, Greene, and Washington counties with ve-
day residential mathematics workshops held at three
University o North Carolina campuses. See page 10.
In SummarySuccess o an organization is measured by the sum
o its parts. Part o the SMT Centers success can be
attributed to its ability to collaborate. Through
collaboration we can add strengths and smooth the
edges to allow us to accomplish our goals. By providingteacher development, by providing opportunities or
school districts to assess and develop science educa-
tion plans, by providing resources or inormal science
education projects to fourish and to spread their reach,
we are providing the students o North Carolina with
the necessary knowledge and skills in science, math-
ematics, and technology to have successul careers,
be good citizens, and advance the economy o the Old
North State.
Samuel H. Houston Jr., Ed.D.
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From the President
Working with the Teacher Link Program, meteorolo-
gist Marvin Maddox engages middle school students
and teachers with the basics o weather: observing
and orecasting. These are the things, he says, that
students can go outside and do themselves.
In talking to school groups, Mr. Maddox likes to
emphasize severe weather, such as thunderstorms
and tornadoes. Seventh graders are old enough toremember a weather event that has aected their
lie, he said. The students relate their own experi-
ence with severe weather and always have a lot o
good questions. Weather is a subject about which
everyone has a story to tell.
In one classroom in Randolph County, located
in central North Carolina, a teacher prepared her
students or Mr. Maddoxs visit by holding a series o
discussions and other activities centered on the
Teacher LinkScience Professionals Reaching Out to Students
Marvin Maddox has a B. S. in physics rom the
University o Georgia and an M.S. in meteorology rom
St. Louis University. Ater retiring rom the National
Weather Service, he taught at the Scranton campus o
Penn State University. He moved to North Carolina in 2004
and has been involved with Teacher Link since 2006.Photo credit: N.C. Museum o Natural Sciences
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weather. Knowing they would have an opportunity to
talk to a meteorologist, the students covered the class-
room walls with posters o all o the questions they
had or him. Most o the questions asked what it was
like to be a metereologist and what kind o training he
needed.
Asking the students to come up with questions
beorehand instilled the students with a heightenedinterest in the subject matter, and Mr. Maddox considers
such interest building to be a strength o the Teacher
Link Program.
As a child, I was curious about the world around
me. I wondered where the clouds came rom, he said.
The Teacher Link Program instills that curiosity in
students, encouraging them to wonder what is the
world about, whether theyre studying meteorology,
physics, or biology.
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LASERLeadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform
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In his keynote address Joe Freddoso, president and
CEO o MCNC, pointed out, The world is changing
but the educational system is not. We need to educate
our students or jobs that will actually exist when they
graduate.
The audience was comprised o educational
representatives rom 14 North Carolina school dis-
tricts. They gathered in Asheville, N.C., as part o theLASER Institute (Leadership and Assistance or Science
Education Reorm), to undergo a rigorous weeklong
program structured to help participants prepare a
strategic plan or improving science education in their
district.
While the topic o change spoke true or every
school district present, or rural Mitchell County the
message hit home. Wedged between the cities o
Asheville and Boone in Western N.C., Mitchell Countyis looking to the uture or its students. The jobs in the
urniture industry that were available to previous
generations are not going to be available.
Louis Schlesinger, a manager o mineral process
research at a mining company and an active community
member in science education, took part in the LASER
Institute to enable other people to have careers like
I have.
Mr. Schlesinger has had our children enrolled in
the Mitchell County school system and understands thatscience education improvement extends beyond the
borders o Mitchell County.
For more than a decade Mr. Schlesinger has been
working with the school district by judging science airs
and helping to sponsor and recruit coaches and judges
or Science Olympiad through his company. He eels
that there are excellent reasons why school systems
need to partner with industry and the community to
improve science education.
Practicing scientists and engineers are going toknow what eective science education is and can provide
sta development and support to schools, he said.
the lAser instituteguidesschool
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From the President
Since the North Carolina Science, Mathematics, and
Technology Education Centers inception, support or
science competitions was prioritized as an important
part o its work. Tom Williams, ormer superintendant
o Granville County schools, has been working with
the Center to bring more awareness to the world o
science competitions in North Carolina.
Mr. Williams and others are working to developnew processes that will increase community aware-
ness and involvement, media visibility, and student
engagement at selected science and mathematic
competitions that the Center is supporting.
During this past year, the SMT Center has
supported and promoted participation in six distinct
state competitions, including N.C. Science Olympiad
and the State Science and Engineering Fair. The Center
selects competitions based on their capacity to provide
local, regional, national, and even internationalopportunities or students.
Partnerships with organizations like N.C.
Grassroots Museum Collaborative provide
opportunities or students who excel at the North
Carolina International Science Challenge to present
their research at the Beijing Youth Science Creation
Competition. During the summer o 2008, the Center
Science CompetitionsBuilding on Strengths
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supported summer camps or students and workshops
or teachers on how to start Science Olympiad teams or
elementary students.
Students that participate in science competitions
spend more time in and out o class engaged in science
thinking critically, asking questions and testing
possible explanations. They get opportunities to hone
problem-solving skills, to practice presenting their
research to varied audiences, and to learn to articulate
and deend their own thinking, explains Lisa Rhoades,
program associate at the SMT Center.
These students also demonstrate an impressive
level o cooperation, collaboration, and mutual respect
important 21st century skills that young people will
need as they embark on their careers.
Funding provided by the North Carolina General Assembly
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Writing or Correlations, the ocial blog o Wired
Science, Sheril Kirshenbaum wrote:
To write I was impressed would be an under-
statement. I met students like Melanie Wiley, a senior
at NC School o Science and Math studying protein
aggregations in the brain and their correlation to
incidence o Parkinsons disease. I learned about the
work o Adam Meyer, a senior at Raleigh Charter High
School, who identied the need or a campaign to
protect the Richland Natural Area and then worked to
build a coalition to support the eort. I was inspired by
teachers like Myra Halpinwhose passion or science
is coupled with an equal drive to communicate to broad
audiences. I the ceremony refects the uture or math
and science, there is certainly reason or hope
The SMT Center will accept award nominations or the
2009 award celebration on its website at ncsmt.org.
The second annual SMT Center celebration took place
on April 19, 2008. More than 400 people attended the
event held at the Embassy Suites in Cary. This was
the rst year that the SMT Center delivered its own
awards in addition to honoring students and teachers
that received recognition rom other organizations.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund President Enriqueta Bond,
Ph.D, received the Order o the Long Lea Pine, thehighest civilian award in North Carolina. The SMT
Center website has links to the videos that were
shown during the celebration.
SMT AwardsCelebrating Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education
Champion o Science, Mathematics,
and Technology Education Award
Donald ClinePisgah Astronomical Research Institute
Student Leadership Award in
Science, Mathematics, and
Technology Education
Adam Meyer Raleigh Charter High School
Business and Industry Award in
Science, Mathematics, and
Technology Education
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From the President
Outstanding Educator in Science,
Mathematics, and Technology
Education Award
Myra Halpin N.C. School o Science and Math
Partnership Award in Science, Mathematics, and Technology EducationGranville Education Foundations Technology Committee
Presidential Award
Dr. Queta Bond
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Partnership Award in Science,
Mathematics, and Technology
Education
Shodor
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The Collaborative ProjectThe Collaborative Project is a 21st Century Initiative
o the North Carolina General Assembly that was
born rom discussions with state senate and house
leadership about concern or the quality o education
and high teacher turnover rates in rural districts o the
state. In August 2007, the Collaborative Project set out
to positively impact teacher recruitment and retention,to provide quality proessional development resources,
and to signicantly improve student perormance in
elementary and middle schools in the ve partici-
pating school districts.
The school systems participating in the pilot
projectCaswell, Greene, Mitchell, Warren, and
Washington Countiesrepresent small communities
that serve low-income students in rural areas o the
state. To better prepare disadvantaged students in
these areas or high school, the Collaborative Projectalso unds ater-school programs that extend the
school year and oer a mix o academic support and
opportunities or learning outside o the classroom.
Last year, over 750 elementary and middle school
students participated in the Projects ater school
programs.
The North Carolina Science, Mathematics, and
Technology Education Center, along with the Public
School Forum o North Carolina, are responsible or
administering the programs oered by the Project.
Blue Ribbon CommissionThe Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and
Accountability was started in June 2007 to comprehen-
sively review and oer to the State Board o Education
recommendations or re-visioning the States testing
program and accountability system. The appointment
letter to the Commission indicated that its work was
expected to be visionary and in-depth, searching or
credible and practical solutions that will serve publiceducation well. Sam Houston chaired the Commission
made up o a number o political gures alongside
CollaborationsUtilizing Resources
a very broad cross-section o business and industry
representatives and educators rom all levels o the
public sector, community colleges, and universities.
In January 2008, Dr. Houston presented the ocialreport on behal o the Commission at the General
Assembly Building to a joint meeting o the State Board
and the General Assembly.
The complete report is available on the Department
o Public Instruction State Board o Education website.
LIFE (Learning in Informal and FormalEnvironments) PartnershipLIFE is a partnership between the University o
Washington, Stanord University, SRI International,and the SMT Center that serves as a support center
or their work in North Carolina. The partnership is
developing a multimedia assessment prototype that
will allow learners to demonstrate their knowledge
and capabilities. This assessment tool will go beyond
traditional written tests to allow the learner an
opportunity to demonstrate more than just the ability
to determine right or wrong selections rom an answer
menu. This work is being done in concert with the
Partnership or 21st Century Skills, the North CarolinaState Board o Education, and the North Carolina Oce
o the Governor.
New Schools Project
In partnership with the North Carolina New Schools
Project (NSP), the SMT Center supports development
o Redesigned High Schools that are heavily ocused
on science, mathematics, technology, and health
education. The high schools are ormed when a large
high school o typically 1,800 students or more is rein-vented into several smaller, independent high schools
that have a specic and rigorous academic ocus.
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From the PresidentFinancial Statements
The North Carolina Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Center (SMT Center) is supported primarilyby the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. That support includes $436,882 o expenses paid on behal o the SMT Centerduring the scal year ending June 30, 2007. These expenses were related to salaries, travel, meeting expenses,maintenance, supplies, proessional ees, printing, and other miscellaneous items. In May 2005, the Burroughs
Wellcome Fund awarded $2,500,000 to the SMT Center. Payments on the award will be made at a uture date.
Statement of Financial PositionYear Ended June 30, 2007
Assets
Cash $ 139,309
Grants receivable, net o discount $ 2,601,610
Total assets $ 2,740,919
Liabilities and Net Assets
Accounts payable
Agent liability to specied beneciaries $ 50,000
Total liabilities $ 50,000
Unrestricted net assets $ 2,690,919
Total liabilities and net assets $ 2,740,919
Statement of ActivitiesYear Ended June 30, 2007
Changes in unrestricted net assets
Revenues
Grants $ 272,387
Contributions $ 436,882
Interest $ 70
Total unrestricted revenues $ 709,339
Expenses
Program services $ 84,264
General and administrative $ 437,196
Total expenses $ 521,460Changes in net assets $ 187,879
Net assets at beginning o year $ 2,503,040
Net assets at end of year $ 2,690,919
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Gerald Boarman, Ed.D.
ChancellorN.C. School o Science and Mathematics
Enriqueta C. Bond, Ph.D.PresidentretiredBurroughs Wellcome Fund
Todd Boyette, Ph.D.DirectorMorehead Planetarium and Science CenterUniversity o North CarolinaChapel Hill
J.B. BuxtonDeputy State Superintendent
N.C. Department o Public Instruction
Norman CohenDirectorUNITEC
Joseph CrockerDirector o OperationsZ. Smith Reynolds Foundation
John DornanExecutive DirectorPublic School Forum o North Carolina
David Haase, Ph.D.
Proessor o PhysicsNorth Carolina State University
Verna Holoman, Ph.D.Executive DirectorN.C. Mathematics and ScienceEducation NetworkCenter or School Leadership DevelopmentUniversity o North Carolina
Samuel H. Houston Jr., Ed.D.President and CEONorth Carolina Science, Mathematics,and Technology Education Center
Kate Hovis, CFP
Senior Vice PresidentSenior Wealth Management AdvisorBB&T
Emma JacksonDirector o Title 1 ProgramsNew Hanover County Schools
Susan JacksonVP and Chie Learning OcerWake Med Health & Hospitals
Senator Howard Lee
ChairmanState Board o Education
Jane PattersonExecutive Directore-N.C. AuthorityRural Economic Development Center
Sid Rachlin, Ed.D.Proessor o Mathematics EducationEast Carolina University
Michael SchmedlenDirector, Worldwide Education
Lenovo United States
Elic SenterEducation ConsultantCenter or Teaching and LearningN.C. Association o Educators
Philip Tracy, Jr. (Chair)AttorneySmith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett,Mitchell & Jernigan, L.L.P. Lawyers
Board of DirectorsFiscal Year 2007-2008
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