Hilton Garden Inn
Accommodations
Summer Workshops will be held at 309 College St. at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Asheville. Restaurants and shops are accessible by foot and Lyft/Uber can provide transportation to the Biltmore House, the Folk Art Center or other locations for sight-seeing beyond downtown.
Rooms can be booked for $139/per night Su-Th using the link below (these rates are not available through the phone or hotel website).
Alternate places to stay, still within walking distance of the workshop and restaurants are the two hostels located downtown, Sweet Peas Hostel at 23 Rankin Ave. (828-285-8488) and Asheville Hostel and Guest House at 12 Ravenscroft Dr. (828-423-0256). The hostels have single rooms and group rooms with private or shared bathrooms for a traveler who is looking for more affordable pricing. Please realize the hostels can sometimes be a bit noisier, so earplugs are recommended—that being stated, many teachers have stayed at both hostels in the past and have been very happy with their choice. AirBnB.com and CouchSurfing.com are two other ways to choose your price and enjoy a bit of the local culture.
July 2019
Student-designed Labs and Statistics for AP/IB Science
This workshop will run for 5 days in July 2019 in Asheville, NC. The goal of this workshop is for each teacher to become comfortable leading students through the process of creating their own lab or field experiments and drawing data-supported conclusions. Teachers will be versed in using variance, standard deviation, standard error of the mean and the 95% confidence interval in describing data numerically and on graphs. Teachers will learn to run hypothesis tests (t-test, chi-squared, and Pearson's test of…
Find out more »Teaching AP/IB Biology/A&P Using a Case Studies Approach
This workshop will run for 5 days in July 2019 in Asheville, NC. The goal of this workshop is for each teacher to be ready to conduct their advanced science class using prolonged, in-depth case studies. This workshop helps teachers develop the skills for leading students through a 1-2 month exploration of a single concept while covering 1/4 to 1/3 of the content and skills standards of the course. I will be using the Catalyst Learning Curricula Case Studies Series…
Find out more »Writing Lesson Plans Using NGSS Instructional Strategies
This workshop will run for 5 days in July 2019 in Asheville, NC. The goal of this workshop is for each AP/IB/General science teacher to create a full unit of lesson plans on a content topic of their choosing where each lesson is packed with student-centered activities rooted in NGSS practices. Teachers may focus on producing phenomenon-based lessons, units with a central storyline, or backward-map their lessons based on measurable outcomes--each strategy will be taught as a means of developing…
Find out more »Lab and Field Research Methods for IAs and Capstone Projects in Ecology
This workshop will run for 5 days in July 2019 in Asheville, NC. The goal of this workshop will be to help general level, APES, IB ESS, AP Biology and IB Biology teachers guide their students to develop independent research questions and experiments for IA's and Capstone projects. Teachers will be led through demonstration experiments and use the skills and methods taught to generate novel questions and data collection. Research topics may be related to issues of air, water, soil, richness,…
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