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Advocacy to Major National Education Organizations and Associations

The goals of advocacy outreach to major national education organizations and associations are to:

  • Educate the organization and their members on what NIE is and what it does to support teachers, students, and schools,
  • Encourage articles about NIE in their publications and newsletters,
  • Connect their members to Institute members throughout the country,
  • Understand the needs of the groups and their members so NIE can better serve them by being more relevant,
  • Develop NIE curriculum specific to current needs and focus areas identified,
  • Develop partnership opportunities, and
  • Disseminate useful information to Institute members on educational trends, research, and instructional resources from these groups.

Recent outreach to these groups include:

U.S. Department of Education 

  • Partnered together to publish a supplement for ESTEME Week. The program included funding for Institute members to print the supplement in their local market. (ESTEME - Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Week).
  • Met with Assistants to the Secretary of Education to educate them about NIE and our NCLB/Reading First initiatives.

National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)

  • Met with the Executive Director and Publications Director to educate them on NIE. This led to the creation of a new standards-based Social Studies teacher guide based on the NCSS 10 Thematic Standards.
  • The Institute presented at the annual NCSS conference.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)

  • Met with their Communications Director to discuss NIE.
  • NCTM supplied a small grant to the Institute to support the ESTEME Week project.

Reading is Fundamental (RIF)

  • A partnership with RIF led to the serialization of Alice in Wonderland. We are discussing partnering on additional serial stories that will be distributed free to Institute members.
 
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