Hi Fabulous Inquiry Facilitators –

Well, a draft of the program is done and ready to go, and it’s going to be bigger and better than ever! It’s such a thrill to read all of the abstracts and titles – you can’t help but get excited about all of the incredible learning that’s occurred this year from inquiry, and the wonderful sharing of it all at the Showcase!

Please look in the program and make sure that all of your inquirers are listed, and their information is correct (name spelled correctly, etc.). Saturday presentations begin on page 18. If you see a typo or someone is missing, please send the correction to Patricia Fleming at pgfleming@coe.ufl.edu. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!! DO NOT SEND CORRECTIONS TO ME!! Recall that I will be in New York all of next week for the American Educational Research Association (presenting my inquiry on administrator action research) and International Conference on Teacher Research (presenting our work on action research and Professional Learning Communities with Mickey and Diane). Therefore, Patricia Fleming, a program coordinator here at UF, will be making any corrections and getting the program to the printer.

DEADLINE FOR CORRECTIONS TO PATRICIA IS TUESDAY, MARCH 24!! She’ll compile any corrections and make them with Susan Stabel, and then send the program to print on or before 3/28. We need to give the printer 10 business days to put the program together, and we want to be sure we have it back in time for the Showcase!

Once the program is 100% done, we’ll post it on the CSI website so your inquirers can look at it before they come on Saturday. I am also asking that if any of your presenters are also going to attend the Friday evening portion to let me know so I can have an accurate headcount for the Friday reception.

One other note – In many presentations, we had to put two pre-interns instead of one. I added 5 minutes to these sessions and I will redo the original schedule and get it to you within the next week or so. I’ll try and complete it before I leave, but I might not be able to get to it.

Also, we did our very best to put two presentations together that shared a topic or a grade level (elementary or secondary) or had some kind of link. Sometimes, we found good matches, but sometimes the matches were a stretch. We did the best we could to match, but I know that even if the topics aren’t exactly matched up, folks will enjoy and learn in ways they wouldn’t necessarily learn if everything was perfectly aligned! We did our best!

Hope you are all doing well and recovered from FCAT!! Can hardly wait for the Showcase!

Happy Inquiring To All!
Nanc

PS – Chris will attach the Showcase Program, as I’m to the limit on what I can post to the site. We just met and he’ll attach the program as soon as he can!