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NASA Explorer Schools Project Implementation
The NASA Explorer Schools initiative, or NES, is a NASA Headquarters project that is administered through the NASA Glenn Research Center, in conjunction with NASA's ten field centers.
Each field center has a NES Project Manager who is responsible for delivery of services to the NES schools within their service region.
Centers also have a NES Coordinator and NES Project Assistant. The Coordinator's responsibilities to NES schools are to: - Serve as liaison between schools, NASA Headquarters, NES Project Managers, National Science Teacher's Association, or NSTA, and NASA Educator Resource Centers.
- Coordinate delivery of services to schools within the field center region.
- Coordinate professional development activities for educators.
- Assist the NASA Digital Learning Network Coordinators in delivery of video conference events to schools within their region.
- Assist in planning and delivery of educationally relevant programming and/or technology between NASA Field Centers, mission directorates and schools.
- Serve as facilitator at NES workshops.
- Track required documents and evaluation instruments from schools.
The Project Assistant's responsibilities to NES schools are to provide support in regard to: - Access information for the NES Web site, eFolio, evaluation surveys;
- Team member replacement forms and information;
- Digital Media Approval on eFolio;
- NES Forms; and
- General Information.
NASA Aerospace Education Services Project, or AESP, specialists are the vanguard for delivery of services to the NES schools. Aerospace education specialists are experienced professional educators, current on vital education issues and familiar with the curriculum frameworks, educational standards and systemic architecture of the states they serve. Specialists are actively involved in state systemic improvement and education reform efforts. AESP personnel are knowledgeable on the full range of NASA's curriculum support products, its diverse resources for students and educators, and its extensive array of education projects throughout the country.
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