Every year when students are counting those days left of summer time fun, teachers are going back early. We have to get our classrooms ready and of course training. Tons and tons and tons of training. In fact, I've started my training 3 weeks before students come back to school and MAN am I learning a lot! We just got done with some fabulous STEM training done be Dacia Jones (@dacia92 if you twitter) from Durham, NC public schools. I encourage you to check out her blog over at Discovery Education HERE Like many STEM conferences we learned about cool projects we could try out with our students, but she also helped to facilitate and grow our little STEM program that for 5th graders is in its infancy. She organized and helped us get lab coats, helped us with grant writing, gave us great resources and information, and did it with an energetic happy smile everyday regardless of the tech difficulties we sometimes hit (WIFI issues blah!) That was amazing week number 1! On to