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Welcome to PALS:

Peak Area Leadership in Science!

PALS facilitates Hub Meetings – free professional development – throughout the school year for Pikes Peak area secondary science teachers.  We do welcome other science educators including retired secondary science educators on a ‘space available’ basis and elementary teachers who teach science.

We are looking forward to the 2024-2025 Semester Two schedule beginning 1.25.25 !

———-     RESERVATIONS:

PLEASE sign up for upcoming hub meetings using the form on the right of this page… OR by emailing Tammy at [email protected] or by calling/texting Tammy at 719-337-1552 (cell). See below for more information about reservations.

2024-2025 Schedule & Descriptions of PALS Hub Meetings

Here are the calendar (two pages) and descriptions (many pages) of our hub meetings for this school year. You may choose to download either file. Please share this information with any other science teachers in your building, district, and/or your contacts.

1 PALS 2024-2025 Schedule – Use Me – updated 9.6Download

2 PALS 2024-2025 Hub Meetings Descriptions – Use Me – updated 9.6Download

———-     UPCOMING MEETINGS

These are the PALS Hub Meetings that will take place this school year. All will be IN PERSON. As the year progresses blue links will be included. Click on the blue date for more information or click on the green highlighted link to access the flyer!

Semester TWO:

UPCOMING:

  • Jan 25, 2025 (Sat) 8:15 am – 2:00 pm: Chemistry of Food Part II – USAFA Chemistry Department 1.25.25 Flyer
  • Feb 11, 2025 (Thurs) 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Supporting Multilingual Learners in the Science Classroom
  • Mar 1, 2025 (Sat) 8:30 am – 2:00 pm: Tapping the Teenage Brain
  • Mar 12, 2025 (Wed) 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Introducing OpenSciEd
  • April 12, 2025 (Sat) 8:30 am – 2:00 pm: Creating Environmental Stewards In and Outside of the Classroom
  • May 1, 2025 (Thurs) 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Moving through the future at the Space Foundation Discovery Center

Semester ONE:

PAST:

———-    PALS PARTICIPANT INFORMATION (Liability) FORM: 

Participants in our meetings are required to complete a 2024-2025 PALS Information Form . If you would like to fill this out in advance and bring the finished form to your first meeting, please do so.

———-     More about RESERVATIONS & CANCELLATIONS: 

Registration for one month’s meetings will open on the workday after the first hub meeting of the previous month. When registration is open, use the form on the right side of this page. For some workshops we may send an e-mail reminder to registered teachers in advance of a workshops and may request that you confirm your participation in advance. If you do not respond to the confirmation request your place may be given to another participant.

PLEASE… Cancel if you cannot attend. Let us know (via our Contact Us page) or by emailing Tammy at [email protected] or by calling/texting Tammy at 719-337-1552 (cell) as far in advance as possible, as we may have a waiting list and/or may have to pay in advance for your spot. Several of our hub meetings this year involve paying significant entry fees per person, so we are limiting participation. Late cancellations may cost another educator the opportunity to participate. Please be considerate of your colleagues!

Reserving a spot and failing to show makes planning on the part of our team and our speakers difficult, definitely causes us to spend precious grant money on unused materials and may cost another educator the opportunity to participate. Please be a responsible member of our learning community and cancel in advance if you are unable to attend.

———-     DOCUMENTATION OF HOURS: 

Looking for professional development clock hours or college continuing education credits? If you attend ALL of the sessions this year you could earn 45 contact hours (documented with a certificate). OR if you choose to pay a modest fee you could earn up to 3.0 semester hours of continuing education credit from CSM. [Updated information will be posted as soon as it is available.]

Need to know more about 2024-2025 Documentation & Credit Information? Click the appropriate file link below.

2024-2025 Documentation & Credit InformationDownload

———-     FUNDING        

Thanks to ALL of our funders !

  • Mikkelson Education Foundation
  • Mikkelson Education Fund / Jim Mikkelson
  • D. Furstenau Memorial Donation

Please visit our Sponsors Page for more details ! 

———-     ARCHIVES

Go to our Archives Page for information about previous year’s (2023-2024, 2022-2023, 2021-2022, 2020-2021, 2019-2020, 2018-2019, 2017-2018, 2016-2017, 2015-2016) hub meetings.