Introduction

Dear U.S. GLOBE Partners,

Message from GLOBE Acting Director Dr. Ed Geary (top)

As we move forward with the Next Generation GLOBE (NGG) Vision, there will soon be new opportunities to do GLOBE in collaboration with the scientists and staff involved in ongoing, Integrated Earth System Science Projects (IESSPs). We are very excited about the possibilities for Country Coordinators and their national implementation teams, teachers and students to participate in these new projects.

We will work closely with you to promote and support grade-level appropriate research projects that are locally and globally relevant to you and to the schools and communities you work with. By participating in one or more of these projects, teachers, students, and community members will have special opportunities to interact with project scientists, learn important science, mathematics, and geography concepts and skills, and collaborate with other project schools and communities. The IESSPs will be selected by the National Science Foundation this summer and as soon as the IESSPs are identified, we will let you know. In the meantime, we look forward to hearing about your current and upcoming GLOBE activities and successes.

You are the power of GLOBE -- Thank you for all that you do!

Best regards,

Dr. Ed Geary
Acting Director,
The GLOBE Program

Announcements (top)

The GLOBE Program Partners with National Geographic Education Foundation
We are pleased to announce that the GLOBE Program has formally begun a partnership with the National Geographic Education Foundation's My Wonderful World campaign to promote geographic literacy. We encourage GLOBE teachers and their students to make geographical connections through their GLOBE science projects. Please send us contact information of teachers you know of who implement GLOBE in their Geography classrooms so that we can feature them through GLOBE Stars and announcements we make in conjunction with this campaign.

Annual Conference and Marine Coastal Symposium, Phuket, Thailand
The 10th Annual GLOBE Conference, from 31 July to 4 August, will be hosted by GLOBE Thailand. If you have not yet registered, now is the time!

This is the first Annual Conference to be held in Asia, and we are excited to once again have opportunities for both formal and informal discussions regarding the exciting regional activities taking place in the GLOBE community. Please take into account the time required for obtaining a visa to enter Thailand; if you require a letter of support, please email globethailand@ipst.ac.th or use the Contact Form located on the Conference Web site.

GLOBE Thailand is also hosting the Marine Coastal Resources Symposium from 27-28 July 2006, just prior to the Annual Conference, at sites impacted by the 2004 Tsunami. There was significant GLOBE student research surrounding these sites, and the symposium will be aimed at observing the change of coral reef and impacts on marine coastal resources, and proposing collaborative projects on the recovery of marine coastal resources. This exciting scientific study symposium is open to all interested participants.

Lodging and sessions for both the Annual Conference and the Symposium will be at the Cape Panwa and Bay Hotels. For more information on both events, please visit the GLOBE Thailand Annual Conference Web site. We hope to see you there and are excited to have Asia and Pacific host an Annual Conference!

Annual Survey
Thank you to all of you who have responded to the Annual Partnership Survey so far! In order to give those of you enough time to complete it, it will be available online until 30 May 2006. If you haven't submitted your recommitment or taken the survey yet, please consider doing so. In order for the GPO to be able to help all of our Partners implement the GLOBE program in your region, we need to know as much about your program as possible, including contact information, activities conducted by your partnership that indicate efforts recruiting, training and mentoring of GLOBE teachers in your region, any efforts towards regionalization, and other relevant information that will assist the GPO to facilitate your implementation efforts. Also, please remember that this information is needed for our required reporting to our funding agencies (NASA and NSF). We need your help to keep our program growing and to confirm active Partnerships so please complete the Annual Partner Survey!

The recommitment form is very short and you will need your Partner ID and password to access it. This form is necessary to confirm that your partnership wishes to remain active and that your contact information on our US Partner web site is accurate information to be dispersed to teacher in your target area.

The survey contains seven sections, and you will need your Partner ID and password to access it. You may complete the survey in either one session or in multiple sessions. We hope the survey will help to define your plans for the upcoming year as well as provide new insights on how to strengthen partnerships and promote collaborations in your region and around the world.

If you have any difficulty completing the survey or need a hard-copy version mailed to you, please contact your Regional Desk Officer so that we can assist you by entering your information once the completed survey is received from you.

GLOBE Learning Communities (GLC) (top)

How to Build GLOBE Learning Communities:
Create a Network of Regional Scientists

The GLOBE Learning Community (GLC) concept encourages the participation of a broad range of community members who share a common commitment to supporting teachers and students in the implementation of GLOBE for the benefit of their community. A GLC might begin as a GLOBE Partner based at a university working with teachers and students from primary and secondary schools in the local school district, and then branch out to include parents, youth clubs, scientists, senior citizens, other colleges and universities, daycare centers, museums, businesses, government agencies and more.

As GLOBE Partners and Country Coordinators worldwide anticipate the new IESSPs and the project-based learning opportunities they will provide, the development of local and regional GLCs is of utmost importance. GLCs are essential to the success of GLOBE schools and students because they provide a real-life context for what students learn in the classroom.

So how do we build strong GLCs? The first step is to identify and recruit local and regional scientists to mentor students. The GPO is aware that many Partners and Country Coordinators have already developed noteworthy models to accomplish this, and we are asking you to share your success stories for everyone's benefit. Please send your models to Dr. Sheila Yule, syule@globe.gov, GLC Coordinator, for inclusion in the revised Partner Implementation Resource Guide. Specifically, what would be helpful to the GLOBE community are examples of how your model would serve project-based GLOBE implementation in schools. In order to be included in the next edition of the Partner Implementation Resource Guide, please send your stories in by 1 May 2006.

In an effort to assist our Partners build their GLCs, the GPO has sent introduction letters and Regional Press Kits to all international member university and affiliate representatives of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). For more details on this effort and how you can follow up with the representative in your region, see Building a GLOBE Science Community in the Regional section below.

GLOBE Alumni:

As we have watched GLOBE students grow up and take a more active role in GLOBE over the past 11 years, another tremendous resource for building strong GLCs is taking shape - an emerging network of GLOBE Alumni. These former GLOBE students are continuing to take an active role within local school communities or partnerships, and the GPO would like to help support their efforts to build a worldwide organization. Currently there are two regions formally supporting GLOBE Alumni organizational efforts: Europe (Czech Republic GLOBE Veterans and Estonia's GLOOBUS), and North America (N.A. GLOBE Alumni Association - Canada and the United States).

However, as there are alumni all over the world, the GPO would like to help you explore the GLOBE Alumni resources you have within your region. Please send the names of former GLOBE students in your region who are still active in GLOBE Program implementation, as well as the schools where they received their GLOBE experience, to Dr. Sheila Yule, syule@globe.gov, GLOBE Alumni Network Coordinator, by 1 May 2006. The information will be used to guide the development of a plan for a volunteer program that fits the needs and abilities of the alumni population.

GLOBE Tools for Partners (top)

Updates in the Partner's Corner:

Regional Press Kits:
The GLOBE Program Office has prepared attractive region-specific "Press Kits" to assist all Partners in collaboration-building activities. They are now available to all GLOBE Partners to download. Visit the following links to download the Regional Press Kits, which are in PDF form. Please let us know if you have any difficulty downloading them and of course, your comments are welcome so that we can ensure that these documents are useful for you.

• Sub-Saharan Africa: (2.2 MB)
• Near East and North Africa: (2 MB)
• Asia and Pacific (2 MB)
• Europe and Eurasia: (2 MB)
• Latin America and Caribbean: (either English or Spanish - both 2.5 MB)
• United States: (2.65 MB)

You may already be familiar with the GLOBE Regional Brochures, which are full-color, tri-fold pamphlets that give a general overview of the GLOBE Program. The Regional Press Kits differ from the Regional Brochures in that they give more detailed information about GLOBE implementation specific to your region. Together, the Regional Brochures and the Regional Press Kits make an effective tool you can use to educate potential funders in your region on the importance and effectiveness of the GLOBE Program.

Listservs:
At the request of various Partners, the GPO has now created listservs for all countries, international regions and U.S. states. These listservs will facilitate communication among GLOBE Partners to share best practices and work toward empowering your efforts. For more information about or to add someone to the GLOBE listserv you belong to, please contact your Regional Desk Officer.

GLOBE Data Entry and Access:
Students Can Now Enter Vernier Probe Data:
It is now possible to identify and enter data collected with probes for both the water temperature and dissolved oxygen protocols. Please refer the GLOBE Teacher's Guide (Hydrology Chapter) for more information.

GLOBE Data Access:
Data for Freshwater Macroinvertebrates, which GLOBE students have been collecting since August 2003, are now accessible on the GLOBE Web site. From the GLOBE Data Access page, click the "Freshwater Macroinvertebrates" checkbox under Hydrology. Scroll down and select specific start and end dates and then click on the button labeled "Get the data Now!**".

Similarly, data reported for the water vapor, fire fuel ecology, seaweed phenology and Arctic bird migration protocols will be available from the GLOBE Data Access page in the near future.

Chief Scientist's Report (top)

Chief Scientist's Blog
GLOBE Chief Scientist, Dr. Peggy LeMone, has started a blog intended for GLOBE students. "Blog," short for "Weblog," is a frequently-updated online journal where an author posts thoughts, comments, and philosophies to share with others. This interactive blog will feature Dr. LeMone's thoughts, observations, and comments on a variety of science topics and will provide students the opportunity to share comments and discuss the topics with each other. Visit Dr. LeMone's Blog now!

CALIPSO-CloudSat Satellites Launch
GLOBE students enjoyed the opportunity to interact with scientists from the CALIPSO and CloudSat satellite missions! Read the entire announcement about the launch here.

For more information about the recent online forum, where students had the opportunity to ask questions about the missions and learn about clouds, aerosols and their possible role in predicting climate change, visit the GLOBE Web site article: Satellite Missions CALIPSO and CloudSat Partner with GLOBE: Providing an Web Forum for Students and Teachers Worldwide.

Surface Temperature Campaign
What is the temperature of the playgrounds that students play on? How does the temperature of a grassy field differ from the temperature of a parking lot? These are the questions that were addressed with the SURFACE TEMPERATURE campaign that took place from October to November, 2005. Dr. Kevin Czajkowski, Principal Investigator for the GLOBE Surface Temperature measurement, and researchers at the University of Toledo, are currently analyzing results from this field campaign, which will be published in a future GLOBE Star. Learn more about the Surface Temperature Field Campaign here.

GLOBE ONE
Automated weather station data collection for the Iowa-based GLOBE ONE Field Campaign was completed on 10 November 2005 at the end of the second growing season. While schools continue to collect data in accordance with GLOBE protocols, the main focus of the students has shifted toward individual projects; several classes and individuals are working on GLOBE ONE projects. Some samples include developing a contrail length and width protocol; use of incoming solar radiation data to determine cloud cover and type; comparing school temperatures to the airport temperatures; and comparison of surface temperatures at different schools. The results of this work were presented at the Student Research Symposium in Cedar Falls, Iowa on 10 February 2006. Dr. Peggy LeMone, Dr. Sandra Henderson, and John McLaughlin as well as several representatives from the PI teams attended the symposium.

Since it was discovered that there are timing errors in the automated weather station data, we have arranged to have a group at the Earth Observing Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research process the data to remove timing errors and flag other possible problems. These data should be available to the GLOBE community by late summer.

Education Update (top)

GLOBE at Night
The recent GLOBE at Night event was a success! Over 4500 observations of the night sky were entered into the data base. Individuals from all 50 states and 96 countries submitted observations. A full report of the GLOBE at Night event including a scientific analysis of the data will be available by the end of April. For more information, visit the GLOBE at Night Web site later this month.

Elementary GLOBE
Elementary GLOBE is an Earth System Science (ESS) unit for K-2 students that includes storybooks and learning activities. This unit addresses ESS and related topics, including clouds, seasons and soils. The science content in the books serves as a springboard to GLOBE's scientific protocols, and also provides students with a meaningful introduction to technology, a basic understanding of the methods of inquiry, and connections to math and literacy skills. We look forward to releasing Elementary GLOBE in PDF format this coming August!

GLOBE Stars (top)

Your GLOBE Star stories are so important! They provide ideas and inspiration to other schools, teachers and Partners, as well as to the GPO. Our goal is to increase the number of GLOBE Stars we publish to one Star per region per month. GLOBE recently hired a new communications specialist, Julie Gerleman, to assist us with meeting this goal. Some of you have already worked with Julie to get your Star up on the Web site. We invite you to assist Julie in highlighting all the good work you do by creating a draft article and submitting it to your Regional Desk Officer with a few photographs. Please remember that all pictures must have a completed release form in order to be posted on the GLOBE Web site. Click here to download the picture release forms.

Again, please email your article to your Regional Desk Officer. Please send hard copies of completed release forms to:

GLOBE Stars Photo Release
The GLOBE Program
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000 USA

Thank you for helping us highlight your region and provide the exposure you deserve for all the hard work you, your teachers and your students do! Below please find links to the Stars and other regional news that has been published since October, 2005.

Africa:

• Twelve Countries Participate in an International Training Workshop and Africa Regional Meeting
• Cameroon GLOBE Students Increase Environmental Awareness of Municipal Lake
• GLOBE in Cameroon Opens New Regional Conference Center for GLOBE Professional Development and Initiates National Science Teacher Association
• South African School Recognized for Environmental Initiatives
• Ten Countries Participate in GLOBE International Training Workshop/Regional Meeting
• Madagascar Project Forges New Alliances by Tackling Malaria

• The GLOBE Campaign and GLOBE Day, Maliyadewa College, Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
• GLOBE Thailand Hosts TTT Workshop

• Macedonia and Croatia Build Strong Bonds through GLOBE
• The 6th GLOBE Germany Students' Congress at the DLR School Lab in Cologne Porz

• South American Decision Makers Attend GLOBE Meeting in Lima, Peru

• Bahrain Students Walk for Environmental Awareness
• Oct 3rd 2005 Sun Eclipse Report - Saudi Arabia

• A Meeting of Minds: GLOBE Students and Scientists Share Research in Iowa
• Greg Lopatka's model of GLOBE sustainability in Illinois
• GLOBE in Alabama
• 100,000 Points of Data

• Africa: Dr. Rebecca Boger
• Asia and the Pacific: Mr. Eric Stonebraker
• Europe and Eurasia: Mr. Gary Randolph
• Near East: Dr. Rebecca Boger
• Latin America and the Caribbean: Dr. Teresa Kennedy
• Canada: Dr. Sheila Yule
• United States: Ms. Nan McClurg

Regional News (top)

Special Opportunity for U.S. Partners
Host the 2007 Annual Conference!
The GLOBE Program Office is inviting proposals from our North American Partners who wish to host the 2007 Annual Conference. By hosting the Annual Conference, you can bring the world of GLOBE to your community at home, offering a chance for your local students to present their projects to international GLOBE Partners! You can bring positive visibility to your program and build long-term relationships with sponsors who can contribute to ongoing development of GLOBE in your community.

Don't wait to take advantage of this opportunity. Details and information on submitting a proposal are available at the Partner's Corner. Please plan to submit your proposal no later than 15 May 2006. Potential hosts are encouraged to contact Paula Robinson, GLOBE Executive Administrator (probinso@globe.gov 1-303-497-2642), with any questions that arise about hosting the conference or developing a proposal.

Building a Science Community with UCAR Members and Affiliates:
Scientists at universities are often eager to work with GLOBE students. The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) has ties with affiliate institutions throughout the United States. As a means of assisting our Partners in establishing and building their GLC, The GLOBE Program Office has recently sent a letter of introduction and a Regional Press Kit to these institutions in the hopes that scientists will be interested in collaborating with GLOBE schools in the region. The GPO encourages all our Partners to contact these institutions (here and here) to begin collaboration.

Professional Development Training Opportunities for U.S. Partners
As you know, GLOBE has been asked by NASA and NSF to link Partners, Teachers, Students and their schools with the cutting-edge science being done by Integrated Earth System Science Projects (IESSPs.) Once the GPO is notified about which IESSPs are awarded in summer 2006, we will begin building new professional development activities that focus specifically on these IESSPs. We anticipate these new activities will be made available to our Partners in 2007.

In the meantime, Partners can effectively create their own training teams to meet their specific training needs and objectives, as well as conduct professional development activities in the original 54 protocols that serve as the scientific foundation for GLOBE. We strongly encourage all Partners to take full advantage of the resources the GPO offers, including materials that have been used in past professional development trainings, both Teacher Certification Program (TCP) focusing on student research and inquiry-based learning as well as Train-The-Trainer (TTT) workshops, which focused on the science behind the GLOBE Protocols.

Building Training Teams - An Overview
Partners can designate any teacher who attends a GLOBE professional development event to train other teachers in their schools and/or around their state, serving as an important member of their partnership training team. In order to give Partners the maximum flexibility to design and carry out specific professional development activities, the GPO has developed an extensive database of certified GLOBE trainers that can be accessed from the GLOBE Administrative Web site. Nan McClurg mcclurg@atmos.colostate.edu, the U.S. Regional Desk Officer, can assist you in navigating this area. Please remember it is your responsibility to contact potential trainers from the database and negotiate to cover any expenses associated with requesting trainers to assist them with their partnership training activities.

Building Training Teams - An Example
When forming training teams, we encourage Partners to utilize trainers who have who have recently attended a TCP workshop that focused on inquiry and student investigation as well as content specialists who have attended a past TTT workshop. This way your training can benefit from having expertise in classroom implementation as well as specific protocols.

Your training team can then be formed in a manner that addresses local research initiatives and school-related activities. In other words, if you want to highlight GLOBE Land Cover investigations, in addition to having a TCP trainer you might also invite a GLOBE trainer identified in the database representing the Land Cover investigation area to serve as a resource person who is knowledgeable about these particular protocols, and/or invite a local scientist with specialty in this content area.

After the IESSP professional development offerings begin, which we anticipate will be in 2007, Partnership training teams can at that time be comprised of three different types of trainers:

1. Trainers who have attended a TTT.
2. Trainers who have attended a TCP.
3. Trainers who have attended an IESSP professional development workshop.

A training team composed of these three elements could provide everything that GLOBE has to offer to teachers: Expertise in the foundation of GLOBE (all 54 protocols), expertise with inquiry and student research, and up-to-date information regarding the exciting new IESSPs.

Building Training Teams - Inclusion in a Proposal
The GPO is often asked for advice in regard to planning for training activities and describing these efforts during proposal writing. A suggestion is to outline the U.S. trainers that you will be bringing in and include the resources needed to get them to your workshop in your budget. This implementation method will allow you to hold your own workshop and produce your own GLOBE trainers and teachers.

Building Training Teams - Partner Models
Partners all over the U.S. have created effective training models utilizing the Trainer Database and online resources provided by GLOBE.

• Greg Lopatka implements a model of GLOBE sustainability in Illinois which proves to be very successful.
• Another recent article on the GLOBE Web site described a thriving state-wide implementation model that Greg Cox has established in Alabama.
• Yours?

There are so many successful training models, like the examples above, implemented around the U.S.! For the benefit of the greater GLOBE community we would like to document these, so please share your secrets of success with us! Send your stories outlining how your partnership has created effective training teams to Nan McClurg.

The GPO strongly encourages and supports your efforts to implement GLOBE during the coming year, and we hope that you will continue to help GLOBE recruit, train, and support schools, teachers, students, and communities who want to participate in the upcoming IESSP projects.

Identifying Partner-Led Teacher Training Workshops vs. Trainer Training Workshops
When posting a new workshop, U.S. Partners will now be able to identify Workshop Types. Once you have logged on the GLOBE Web site with your Partner ID and Password:

• Select Administration.
  

  In the box titled Workshop Administration, select the link Workshop Administration.

• Select CREATE A NEW WORKSHOP.
  

  Under the title Dates and Availability, there is now a new drop-down menu labeled Workshop Type that allows U.S. Partners to choose:
  a.) Partner-Hosted Teacher
  b.) Partner-Hosted Trainer

If you are hosting a Teacher Training Workshop, select Partner-Hosted Teacher and each participant will be registered in the GLOBE database as having attended a Teacher Training.

If you are hosting a Trainer Training Workshop, select Partner-Hosted Trainer and each participant will be registered in the GLOBE database as having attended a Trainer Training. This selection will also place the participant in the GLOBE Trainer list and will mark them as a certified Trainer in the protocols covered in your Partner-Hosted Trainer workshop.

If you have any questions on how to post your Partner-hosted trainings, please contact the U.S. Regional Desk Officer, Nan McClurg or call 1-800-858-9947 and someone will assist you.

Workshop Materials information:

We are very pleased to inform you that a new page has now been added to the Partner's Corner of the Web site where you will be able to find many GLOBE Materials that can be downloaded for your teacher trainings.

This page contains general GLOBE Materials, specific materials for Atmosphere, Soil, Land Cover protocols, as well as the Earth as a System poster and activity packet. Please use these online GLOBE materials during your trainings as needed and print them directly from the Web site for your teachers.

Also, please make a note that as of January 2006, when you post a teacher training workshop, which does not fall under the Conference, Recruitment or a Follow-up category, you will still be able to request and receive the following materials in hard copy:

• GLOBE brochures
• GLOBE certificates
• GLOBE Earth System poster activity packet
• GLOBE Teacher's guide on CD
• GLOBE stickers (while supplies last)
• Any GLOBE Videos (while supplies last)

Based on the protocols you are implementing at your training workshops, you can also receive the following items:

Atmosphere:

• GLOBE cloud chart
• GLOBE contrail chart
• GLOBE cloud poster
• GLOBE Atmosphere Videos (while supplies last)

Hydrology:

• GLOBE Hydrology Videos (while supplies last)

Land Cover:

• GLOBE Land Cover Video (while supplies last)
• The appropriate tree guide for your area that we still have in stock (while supplies last)

Soils:

• GLOBE Soil video (while supplies last)

Please note that the MUC Field Guide and the MultiSpec Software is available for you to download as needed from the link mentioned above. We hope that you find this resource useful.

LandSat Image is now available via E-Mail:

When ordering a LandSat image for your Land Cover Investigation, you can now choose to have the image file sent to you one of three ways:

1. Floppy disk
2. CD
3. As an email file (with instructions on how to use it).

Recent Grants Awarded to U.S. Partners
Has your partnership received a grant? We would like to feature your Partnership.s efforts in obtaining grants to promote GLOBE activities. Please inform us by sending an email to Nan McClurg.

University of Missouri, Kansas City receives grant from Missouri Department of Higher Education to promote GLOBE
The Kansas City Geosciences and Mathematics Advancement Partnership (KC-GeoMAP) is a University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) teacher professional development program (PD) for elementary and middle school teachers in the Kansas City Missouri School District (KCMSD). The Missouri Department of Higher Education (MDHE) recently awarded a grant of $113,000 to UMKC for the year-long project, which includes a 3-week intensive summer workshop and a follow-up implementation phase during the 2006-07 school year. Dr. Jimmy Adegoke is the project principal investigator and coordinator of the UMKC GLOBE partnership.

NASA IV & V Educator Resource Center receives a grant from West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission
The WV GLOBE Partnership at the NASA IV&V Facility Educator Resource Center received $69,194 from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission through a federal No Child Left Behind program titled Improving Teacher Quality. This ITQ grant will provide week-long institutes for 45 WV educators during the summer of 2006 and follow up workshops through May of 2007. This is the third year the WV GLOBE Learning Community has received this funding which was previously awarded to the Math, Science and Technology Consortium of North Central WV with the WV Geologic Survey as the primary agent.

Queens College, Flushing, New York
Queens College's GLOBE NY Metro Partnership received an Environmental Education grant of $49,980.00 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to pilot a new project/place-based GLOBE recruiting strategy in New York City. High schools, middle schools, and elementary schools surrounding two city parks, one in Queens, one in the Bronx, will form research teams for year-long research projects on topics that the schools will design to fit the unique nature of each park. Older students will mentor younger ones and serve as "senior scientist" role models. At the end of the year, an EPA GLOBE symposium will be held at Queens College at which the two teams will present their findings and compare the two parks.

SUPPORTING THE VISION

Jennifer L. Bourgeault, Partner: GLOBE at UNH/Land Cover - Biology Team
Jen, as Partner Coordinator, presents an exemplary model of communication with the New England GLOBE Newsletter. This newsletter serves as resource that helps teachers remain current with what is happening within the GLOBE worldwide community, with collaborative opportunities with supporting partnerships, software, grant opportunities, and educational articles as well as identifying upcoming Partner events and activities. This kind of communication is essential as NGG moves into new territory.

Working within the schools for the Deaf Network

Sister Laura Gruber, St. Joseph School for the Deaf, Chesterfield, Missouri
Sister Laura Gruber introduced her work with deaf students at the first GLC meeting in Corpus Christi, September 2005. Sister Laura coordinates GLOBE activities at her school.

Teresa Huckleberry hosted a Deaf Learning Community meeting in December, 2005 at the Indiana School for the Deaf. Participating in the meeting was Mary Ellsworth of Gallaudet University and the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center in Washington, DC, Sister Laura, and Ali Zimmerman of the GLOBE Office. Discussions focused on the workings of the Schools for the Deaf Network, and how this network could guide the development of the GLOBE Schools Network.

Dr. Tony Murphy, Partner, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota
Tony inspired all at the NSTA GLOBE Learning Communities Meeting with a description of the integration of deaf students into activities for his pre-service education students. The presentation helped all to expand their perceptions of diverse student populations to be served within their partnerships to include the deaf community.

GLOBE Alumni Meeting, Boulder, CO January, 2006
Martin Pentson, GLOOBUS, Estonia met with GLOBE students from the United States and Canada to encourage participation in a GLOBE Alumnus Network. GLOBE Alumni, worldwide, are a natural resource for Partners, schools, and teachers.

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