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AEA Advocate x Special Election Edition 2014 35 WE ARE AEA! • WE ARE AEA! • WE ARE AEA! • WE ARE AEA! BetterLesson, in partnership with the National Education Association, is proud to officially congratulate and announce the newly hired cohort of NEA Science Master Teachers, including AEA members Dawn Gunn, Jennifer Valentine, Justin Price, Ellen Herman, and Sara Leins. With the NEA Science Master Teacher Project, BetterLesson is bringing the full richness of Master Teachers' curriculum and practice within reach for every teacher for free! Building on the success of the Math and ELA phase of the Master Teacher Project, the 65 selected science teachers are creating living, breathing bodies of knowledge around effective science teaching. Their efforts will catalyze professional conversations and be leveraged by new and developing teachers around the country. This new cohort of Science Master Teachers hails from 23 states. Urban hubs such as Los Angeles, New York, Kansas City, Memphis, and Boston are represented, along with a myriad of suburban and rural areas. All current classroom teachers will be sharing over 700 years of teaching experience in the 6,000+ lessons they will create on the project. Their qualifications are top-tier, too! The cohort includes 19 National Board Certified teachers, while others carry prestigious recognitions such as NEA Teaching Excellence Winners, Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, Siemens STEM Academy Fellowships, US Department of Education Green Ribbons, NASA Endeavor Teacher Fellowships, and more. Science Master Teachers and their coaches are already crafting lessons and getting them ready for BetterLesson's website. By the fall of the 2014- 2015 school year, the combined efforts of math, ELA and Science Master Teachers are slated to produce over 15,000 lessons. Both the NEA and BetterLesson are setting out to arm teachers with the tools they need to create a revolution in teacher preparation and development. The NEA Science Master Teacher Project is part of that revolution. 2 Five AEA Members Selected for Science Master Teacher Project Congratulations to the 2014-2015 Science Master Teachers: Kindergarten Teacher Dawn Gunn Cartwright EA member 3rd-Grade Teacher Jennifer Valentine Sunnyside EA member 3rd-Grade Teacher Justin Price Paradise Valley EA member 4th-Grade Teacher Ellen Herman Flagstaff EA member High School Physics Teacher Sara Leins Paradise Valley EA member betterlesson.com