Check out this great new resource! This page includes a series of "Did You Knows" about teaching plus fun, educational science and math jokes that teachers will love. These are available in easy-to-download PNG image files and editable PowerPoint slides.
The map on this page contains a series of state-specific PowerPoint slides designed to slot into your GFO presentation. These slides dive deep into both Scholarships and Loan Forgiveness opportunities and provide a breakdown of the state’s Retirement Plan.
The step-by-step guide gives you details about the presentation and tips on how to present effectively. Check it out before you give a student or faculty presentation and you'll have everything you need to be prepared and highly effective!
GFO Champion Leaderboard
The top five most active (based on activity registrations) GFO Champions since June are:
Liz Ruzika, Student Ambassador
Dawson Lang, High School Math Teacher
Connor McGovern, Student Ambassador
Ty Valentine, Executive Director, St. Vrain Valley Schools Human Resources
Glen Waddell, Math Teacher Educator
To be considered for the next Newsletter’s leaderboard,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.
Our Dear Friend, Tim Hendrix
On July 16, 2023, AMTE and GFO lost a dear friend and an extraordinary member when Tim Hendrix passed away from cancer. Tim Hendrix was AMTE’s Executive Director from 2014 to 2020 and a GFO Math Change Agent since 2018. Tim was deeply committed to math teacher recruitment and central to building the GFO Project’s math component from the beginning. Tim was a driving force in forging the partnership with AMTE in 2019; the rest is history! He was beloved for his kindness, caring, creativity, passion, and wide array of interests. He will be deeply missed.
GFO Voices from the Field
“I went to as many intro-level prerequisite STEM courses as I could (e.g., Bio I, Chem I, Pre-Calc, Calc I) and gave a 5-minute spiel to STEM majors about our program, [xx]U-Teach. This year, I included GFO on the slide I showed on screen, and added the salary graphic for two [local] counties to the back of the flier I handed out… I did about 30 of these announcements in October and November and our registration for the first prerequisite course for the spring is up 50% over last spring (from 21 to 42)!”
Check outthis great summaryof the many, many ways that your fellow members of the GFO Community are using GFO Resources and Messaging to promote their STEM teacher preparation programs and recruit more future teachers.
"I created a bulletin board that shares the "Did You Know" slides from the GFO Student-Facing Presentation. In addition, the bulletin board also incorporated the local salaries of our partner districts (GFO data), Teacher Life by the Numbers Sheets for two counties that the color was adapted to our school colors, state retirement data (from GFO Alabama slides), and a QR code to an article about teacher retirement by GFO, and loan forgiveness (state and federal, including QR code to GFO state page). Lastly, there is UAH information about our degrees and a QR code to make an appointment with an advisor. Take a look at Sarah’s blog article in the AMTE Connections newsletter."
Sarah Dyess
University of Alabama in Huntsville
"Here in Arizona, I belong to a couple of groups that have enabled me to share GFO messaging in a non-traditional way. My role with Local First Arizona allows me to work in Workforce Development which includes education. I have had the chance to share GFO with principals and Community of Practices (which includes Special Education Directors and Teachers). I am also the new President-Elect of AZCEC (Arizona Council for Exceptional Children) and I've had the opportunity to share GFO Resources and Messaging with current students in special education and faculty. In addition, I sit on our Arizona CEEDAR team which brings together faculty/program managers at ASU, UA, Grand Canyon, and Rio Salado. I plan on presenting next month to this group. Last, I started a Facebook Group in Arizona called, "Teacher/Educator Resources and Jobs in Arizona" and I've shared your data and information on that page. I want to thank GFO for the work you do to positively share information about the field of teaching. I have long thought we should encourage more people to go into education and I feel your work helps us move the bar."
Jay Johnson
Local First Arizona, Rural Program Manager - Work Force Development
Arizona Council for Exceptional Children, President-Elect
Career – and Teacher – Preparation Can Strengthen Your Department
The Effective Practices for Physics Programs (EP3) Initiative encourages departments to publicize varied career options and provide resources, guidance, and learning experiences that prepare students for careers. This includes teaching! Promoting high school teaching careers as one of many diverse career pathways available to students can be a great way to improve your department’s recruitment, retention, and student outcomes.
While the EP3 Initiative focuses on physics departments, many of EP3’s recommendations apply broadly to STEM. The EP3 Guide contains GFO resources and can be used to support your efforts to promote teaching careers. Please check out the Guide sections on Career Preparation and High School Physics Teacher Preparation.
We are excited to welcome 17 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.
Talk to us! We want to hear from you – your successes, challenges, questions and concerns! EmailGettheFactsOut@Mines.edu.
Get the Facts Out is an NSF funded partnership between the Colorado School of Mines and four national societies: American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, American Association of Physics Teachers, and the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators. GFO is a unique project that is designed to reach STEM majors in a large fraction of all U.S. mathematics, chemistry, and physics departments and has potential to significantly address teacher shortages in these high-need STEM disciplines.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 1821710 & 1821462. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Get the Facts Out, 1523 Illinois St., Golden, Colorado 80401
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