8:00 AM
Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00 AM
Introduction to Workshop
  - Randall Haley, Director, EPSCoR Centers Development Initiative
      “Welcome and Overview of CDI”
  - Julio Lopez-Ferrao, Program Director, EPSCoR Office, National Science Foundation
      “Overview of NSF EPSCoR”
      [PPT: EPSCoR: Opportunities and Challenges for Science and Technology]

9:30 AM
  - T. H. Lee Williams, Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate College, University of Oklahoma
      “Integrating Education and Research”
      [PPT: Integrating Research and Education]

10:15 AM
Networking Break

10:30 AM
Introduction to NSF GK-12 Program
  - Terry S. Woodin, Program Director, Division of Graduate Education, NSF
  - Carolyn L. Piper, Assistant Program Director, Division of Graduate Education, NSF
      “Overview of NSF’s Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education”
      “Developing Fundable GK-12 Proposals”
      “New Funding Opportunities in Education and Human Resources”
      [PDF: NSF GK-12 Program]

12:00 PM
Lunch and Small Group Discussions (Commons Restaurant)

1:00 PM
Best Practices in GK-12 Funded Programs:
Panel Presentations by GK-12 Principal Investigators and Co-Principal Investigators
  - Susan Brawley, Professor of Plant Biology, University of Maine
    [Link to GK-12 Project]
    [PDF: University of Maine NSF GK-12 Program]
    [PDF: Benefits and Responsibilities Info and Forms]

1:25 PM
  - Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
    [Link to GK-12 Project]
    [PDF: Project Fulcrum: GK-12 at the University of Nebraska]

1:50 PM
  - Kenneth Y. Kaneshiro, Director of the Center for Conservation Research and Training, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    [Link to GK-12 Project]
    [PDF: The GK-12 Program in Hawaii: Using Hawaii's Unique Biota for Science Education]
    [PDF: The Hawai‘i GK–12 Program]

2:15 PM
Networking Break

2:30 PM
  - Teri Reed Rhoads, Director of Engineering Education, University of Oklahoma
    [Link to GK-12 Project]
    [PPT: Authentic Teaching Alliance ]

2:55 PM
  - Nancy M. Trautmann, Program Leader, Environmental Inquiry, Cornell Science Inquiry Partnerships, Cornell University
    [Link to GK-12 Project]
    [PDF: Impacts of Participation in a GK-12 Fellowship Program on Teachers’ Conceptions and Use of Inquiry Science]
    [PDF: Cornell Science Inquiry Partnerships Description]

3:20 PM
Best Practices Q&A
  - Susan Brawley, Professor of Plant Biology, University of Maine
  - LaDawn Haws, Professor of Mathematics, visiting the University of Oklahoma from California State University, Chico
  - Kenneth Kaneshiro, Director of the Center for Conservation Research and Training, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  - Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
  - Teri Reed Rhoads, Director of Engineering Education, University of Oklahoma
  - Nancy Trautmann, Program Leader, Environmental Inquiry, Cornell Science Inquiry Partnerships, Cornell University

3:45 PM
Individual/Small Group Meetings with NSF Program Officers and Panel Members

4:45 PM
Adjourn

6:00 PM
Networking Dinner (Commons Restaurant)