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Does anybody know of sources of wholesale science suppliers? Any information 
will be appreciated.

Sincerely,
Maria
A Program of the Bessemer Historical Society Maria Sanchez-Kennedy Executive 
Director Bessemer Historical Society 1612 E. Abriendo Ave. Pueblo, CO 81004 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "(Chrstine Klein)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 12:59 PM
Subject: FW: Teacher Resource Centers


> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related 
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> A friend is looking for information on Teacher Resource Centers and I 
> offered to post her request to this list.  See her note below.  Please 
> respond directly to Barb at the email address below.  I'm sure she'd be 
> willing to post a summary of responses if people are interested.  She's 
> made the same request of the botanical garden equivalent to ISEN.
> Kit
>
> Christine Klein
> Research and Evaluation Consultant
>
>
> ---- Barbara Addelson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ________________________________
>
> From: Barbara Addelson
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 2:44 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Teacher Resource Centers
>
> Greetings from Missouri!
>
> We are in the process of evaluating our teacher resource center and are
> trying to identify the characteristics of good models of resource
> centers.  Do any of you have resource centers that serve classroom
> teachers and/or staff?
>
> If so, I'm interested in knowing some of the following things:
>
> What is the mission (informally) for your TRC?
>
> Who uses it?
>
> What is the level of its current use?
>
> How do you fund it?
>
> How do you staff it?
>
> How do you market it to teachers, schools and/or school districts?
>
> Have you done any evaluation of your resource center?
>
> Do you have any information about your TRC that you can forward my way?
>
> We will have plenty of other questions as we go along, but if I can get
> some feedback up front that would really help us out, as we plan how to
> evaluate our center.  Thanks so much for any information you can
> provide.
>
> Barb Addelson
>
> Barbara Addelson
> Senior Manager, Education Division
> Missouri Botanical Garden
> P.O. Box 299
> St. Louis, MO  63166
> p:  314-577-5147
> f:  314-577-9592
> e-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>
> To discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment,
> in order to preserve and enrich life.
> -mission of the Missouri Botanical Garden
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