{"id":1095,"date":"2009-07-16T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2009-07-17T06:31:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T10:31:22","slug":"controversial-issues-workshop-a-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":"“Controversial Issues Workshop” an Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has already\u00c2\u00a0been several posts by Brandon regarding the Controversial Issues Workshop,however, I felt that a summery of all the events would be appropriate. First, I would like to thank Larry Plank who is the Hillsborough County Schools Science Supervisor, for the time and energy he expended in organizing this event.It takes a great deal of effort to organize a workshop and Larry did an outstanding job.\u00c2\u00a0 I would like to thank all the teachers and educators who gave of their time to attend,\u00c2\u00a0showing their desire to understand the various controversies and grow as better teachers and educators.\u00c2\u00a0 I wish to thank the FCS who provided\u00c2\u00a0five of the main presenters, Joe Wolf,\u00c2\u00a0Brandon Haught, Kathy Savage, Debra Walker\u00c2\u00a0and myself.\u00c2\u00a0We were well received and very\u00c2\u00a0much\u00c2\u00a0appreciated by all concerned for\u00c2\u00a0our efforts. Those in attendance\u00c2\u00a0were thirsty for answers and kept our\u00c2\u00a0speakers engaged way beyond their scheduled\u00c2\u00a0time limits. And, of course, it was an honor to have NCSE’s Josh Rosenau on hand to give a presentation and offer his insight. Here’s the schedule of events<\/a> if you want to see the full lineup of presentations.<\/p>\n

In all,even considering the less than accurate TV coverage, the workshop was a unmitigated success,\u00c2\u00a0for the school district,for the Florida Citizens for Science, but most of all and most importantly,for the students who will\u00c2\u00a0reap the benefits of a well informed group of teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There has already\u00c2\u00a0been several posts by Brandon regarding the Controversial Issues Workshop,however, I felt that a summery of all the events would be appropriate. First, I would like to thank Larry Plank who is the Hillsborough County Schools Science Supervisor, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-hF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1093,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1093","url_meta":{"origin":1095,"position":0},"title":"Grossly misleading story","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Fox News station in Tampa probably meant well, but they went about doing this story about the Controversial Issues Workshop going on this week all wrong. I mean really wrong. Florida science teaching standards didn't allow the word \"evolution\" to be used. Instead teachers had to say the phrase,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 3 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1093#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1086,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1086","url_meta":{"origin":1095,"position":1},"title":"Workshop: Controversial Issues in the Science Classroom","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Several of us from Florida Citizens for Science will be heading over to Hillsborough County to participate in a Controversial Issues in the Science Classroom workshop next week. 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Dr. Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, will be speaking to teachers this Saturday as a component of USF's Darwin Days Celebration. \u00c2\u00a0This is a wonderful opportunity, as Eugenie rarely has the opportunity\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":260,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=260","url_meta":{"origin":1095,"position":4},"title":"It’s almost back to school time","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A pilot workshop gives teachers some hands-on science learning. Just in time for back to school! Palumbo is among 13 Collier County Public Schools teachers who have been gearing up for the start of the school year by getting hands-on experience in environmental and marine sciences at parks, beaches and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the Classroom"","block_context":{"text":"In the Classroom","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3403,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3403","url_meta":{"origin":1095,"position":5},"title":"News Roundup 1\/20\/19","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"There are several items in the news of interest to us here at Florida Citizens for Science. We'll start with the budding coverage of a bill filed in our state legislature that could directly impact science education here in the Sunshine State. 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