Flashback

NWREL Regional Partners

1—Nancy Kinney from the Anchorage (Alaska) School District joins teachers Karen Dannenbring and Katie Lanehart of the district’s North Star Elementary School at a recent meeting of the Laboratory’s regional partners. The Laboratory is providing indepth assistance to 15 partner schools in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

Playtime Is Science

2—Ellen Rubin (standing) of Educational Equity Concepts in New York introduces the National Science Foundation-funded project, Playtime Is Science, to teachers from the region, including Patricia Ware (sitting), a teacher from Valley View Elementary School in Boise, Idaho. The project is an early childhood, hands-on, parent/child science activity program that gives all children, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, disability, or level of family income equal access to the study of science. The meeting was hosted by NWREL’s Equity Center.

NWREL Board of Directors

NWREL board members Pat Burk and Barbara Riley share with other board members information from the recent meeting in Denver of the U.S. Department of Education Western Region Conference on the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation.

Photos: 3—Pat Burk, deputy superintendent for Oregon Department of Education, spoke about the influence of the legislation on state education agencies.

4—Barbara Riley, project director for Women’s Opportunity and Resource Development, Inc., in Missoula, Montana, talked about the effect of NCLB on local schools and districts.