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Please share!
Thanks,
Beryl
On Oct 21, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Maria Sanchez-Kennedy wrote:

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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 [log in to unmask] tel: fax:  
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "(Chrstine Klein)"  
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> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 12:59 PM
> Subject: FW: Teacher Resource Centers
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>> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology  
>> Centers
>> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related  
>> institutions.
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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
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>>
>> ---- Barbara Addelson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> 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]  
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>> 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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