GFO/AAEE Conference

We had a fantastic group of GFO folks attend the first-ever Get the Facts Out Annual Conference! We were in Chicago jointly with AAEE - The American Association for Employment in Education.  GFO folks met from Monday afternoon to Tuesday lunch and then joined AAEE as part of their conference.  We had really valuable discussions about what GFO Central can do to support the Community as well as how the Community can support itself in between funding. Attendees made many new connections with both GFO folks and HR Talent Acquisition Specialists who were attending AAEE.

Congratulations to Ellen Yzerski and her compatriot, Jenn Neilson for winning the GFO Scavenger Hunt!  Ellen and Jenn won a famous Palmer House brownie!  Palmer House claims to have invented the brownie! 

GFO Attendees at the AAEE Grand Reception were instructed to dress as 1930’s Hollywood Glam. Look at all that red and black! 

Thank you to all those who attended and for these kind words for the GFO team!

"THANK YOU for making GFO and AAEE possible. It was an extraordinary experience."

- Greg Kier, UW-River Falls and New Richmond School District

 

"TYSM, I had an amazing time and loved meeting y'all in person. I was inspired by the many GFO rockstars who shared their work and can't wait to implement them in Mississippi."

 -Liza Bondurant, Mississippi State University

New to the GFO Website

Check out the newest GFO resource: Faculty Call to Action!  This resource tests extremely well with faculty, drawing their eyes and attention to some key facts that we would like our colleagues to hear.  

This cartoon is designed to be placed in a location where faculty will notice it such as near the department coffee, water cooler, copier, etc. 

The QR code can be modified to go to your program page with faculty resources (single slides or posters). Right now it points to the GFO resources on GettheFactsOut.org.

GFO Champion Shout-outs

Shout-out to everyone who has done a GFO presentation since the last newsletter and registered it! Woot Woot!!

Jennifer Nielsen - Brigham Young University, UT

Todd Frauenholtz - Bemidiji State University, MN

James White - Juniata College, PA

Jay Johnson - Local First, AZ

Elizabeth Sturm - Lewis University, IL

Soleste Hilberg - University of California Santa Cruz

Heather Grantham - Colorado Dept. of Education

Clay Stanfield - Texas A&M University-Commerce

Jonathan Fitz Gerald - Rhodes College, TN

Christine Liebe - Colorado School of Mines

Kathleen Kristian - Iona University, NY

Michael Marder - University of Texas Austin

Wendy Adams - Colorado School of Mines

To be considered for the next Newsletter’s shout-out, register your activities!  We’d love to hear how you’ve been using GFO resources from dropping some facts in a conversation to giving a presentation.

The Dynamic Duo

Math champion and math change agent, Sarah Dyess and Jean Lee, team up to present at the GFO-AAEE Conference on Oct 25, 2023, in Chicago, IL. In this fun presentation, we shared strategies on how to recruit high school students using GFO materials and positioned the audience as high school students. Consider co-presenting with champions! We both learned a lot from each other. 

GFO at NCTM

Math Change Agents Gary Martin, Jean Lee, and Glenn Waddell present at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Washington D.C. on Oct 26, 2023. Over 6,000 mathematics educators attended this conference. 

$3.4 M awarded to PhysTEC 

The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $3.4 million grant to the APS, in partnership with the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), to scale up and build the capacity of PhysTEC’s (Physics Teacher Education Coalition) community of physics departments and teacher education programs.

One key feature of this new effort is to work more closely with departments without teacher preparation programs to support their teacher recruitment efforts, and that uses GFO resources!  PhysTEC aims to bring more ownership and agency to its coalition members and redesign our efforts to better serve the needs of a greater variety of PTE programs, paying particular attention to issues of equity by working closely with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). See more >>

We are excited to welcome 27 new GFO Champions! 

A GFO Champion is anyone who shares facts about the teaching profession by using the materials and messages from the GFO project locally or nationally. A GFO Champion can be a current teacher, a faculty member, a teacher recruiter, or a careers advisor, or more!

It helps the project a great deal if you register as a Champion - and, you will appear on the community map, earn designations that can be included in your professional portfolio, and can make priority requests for local teacher salary and benefits data.

Derrick Martin, Colorado Department of Education, Educator Recruitment and Retention

Monica Dillihunt, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Educational Psychology

Todd Frauenholtz, Bemidji State University, MN, Math

Kathleen Wilson, University of Delaware, Math

Natalie Hancock, Brigham Young University, UT, Family and Consumer Sciences Education

Jacob Winters, Black Hawk College, IL, Math

Katie Johnston, Barone Middle School, Meeker Public Schools, CO, Administration

Gayle Gleason, SUNY Cortland, NY, Geology/Earth Science

Casey Meier, Campus High School, KS, Teaching as a Career

Carrie Cutler, University of Houston, TX, Math

Tommi Holsenbeck, Alabama State University (retired), Physics

Catherine Miller, University of Northern Iowa, Math

Batoul Abdallah, University of Michigan, General Science Education; Biology Education

Kenric Davies, Texas A&M University, All Secondary

Zane Whittington, Louisiana State University, Physics 

Patty Wagner, University of North Georgia, Math

Heather Grantham, Colorado Department of Education, Educator Recruitment

Samantha Strachan, Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, Science and Math Education

Chetna Patel, Aurora University, IL, Chemistry

Stacy Furness, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Teacher Education

Katie Purington, University of Wisconsin- River Falls, Teacher Education

Jamie Schneider, University of Wisconsin River Falls, Chemistry

Leigh van den Kieboom, Marquette University, Math

Jen Sielaf, School District of South Milwaukee (WI), Human Resources

Keri Richburg, Alabama State Department of Education, Math

Amanda Hanegan, Meridian Public School District (MS), Math 

Fred Delk, Meridian Public Schools (MS), Math 

Not a Champion yet? Learn more about becoming a GFO Champion.

Already a Champion? Please register your activities!

Talk to us! We want to hear from you – your successes, challenges, questions and concerns!  Email GettheFactsOut@Mines.edu.