School Name:	Northeast Nodaway School District: Northeast Nodaway Elementary School	School Calendar
State:	Missouri (MO)
School URL:	http://www.nen.k12.mo.us
NES Year Joined:	2007
Description:	Northeast Nodaway R-V is a rural school district located in northwest Missouri. We are a K-12 district composed of the towns of Ravenwood and Parnell which consolidated in 1957. We are located northeast of Maryville, Missouri home of Northwest Missouri State University-go Bearcats! Since we are a rural community, most of our families are blue-collar workers such as farmers and factory workers. To better serve our constituents, our district decided to implement weekly professional development on Wednesday mornings. Every Wednesday teachers meet for 90 minutes before the students arrive to start school. The late starts have focused on cooperative learning strategies, curriculum mapping, and building level staff development. We are excited to continue this program next year and add NASA as part of our professional development.
Executive Summary:	In April, 2007 Northeast Nodaway was thrilled to be informed we were chosen as a NASA Explorer School. Our journey began June 18, when we traveled to Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. While we were there for orientation, we were trained in the areas of Distance Learning Network, online resources, and modules. We experienced professional development training in the areas of family investigation night, content areas and interest in the areas of the STEM-G, and use of technology. We are ecstatic to join the NASA family in our future endeavors. As an emerging professional learning community, Northeast Nodaway involves students, teachers, staff, parents, community and support personnel in promoting our school-wide instructional focus to connect students to the world. The NASA Explorer Team envisions a learning environment that nurtures and encourages a passion for learning through literacy, technology, math and science, and critical thinking. Our 3-year NES Implementation Plan encompasses the vision of the school community, as well as the NASA Explorer Team, and exemplifies the NES Program Objectives. By integrating technology with student learning, building leadership capacity among staff, and developing targeted parent programs, our school-wide goals will work in cojunction with NES objectives. Implementation of program goals will begin in year one, with reflection, revision, and expansion of the goals driving our efforts in the subsequent 2 years.Many avenues will be used to foster student interest and participation in science, math, and technology, including student orientation, professional development, parent and community meetings/workshops, teacher training and collaboration, coordination of programs, use of technology and resources, student research and projects, extra-curricular activities and school-wide visuals. To increase student knowledge of careers in science, math and technology, partnerships will be formed with businesses, universities, and community organizations. Students in all math and science courses will use manipulatives in the inquiry-based process of learning. Technology will enhance their research efforts. NES Team members will participate in NES training. They will give leadership in building collaborative teams to determine what the students should learn, how they will know that they learned it, and how to provide interventions to those that did not learn it. Families will be invited to special evening events as well as parent and community meetings/workshops and report card pick-up/parent conferences. Visuals will be prominently displayed throughout the school during all events to promote program objectives, and NASA Team members will solicit family support and involvement. Building strong family partnerships is a school-wide improvement initiative, and will continue long after the 3-year implementation of the NES Strategic Action Plan. Overall NES Goals: First Year 1) Implement additional hands-on science, technology, engineering, mathematics and geography activities for the students and teachers. 2) Increase educator professional development related to STEM-G content. 3) Increase parental and community involvement. Second Year: 1) Add additional inquiry education content within the classroom 2) Utilize the DLN for student and family programs. 3) Promote Science and Mathematics with real life applications. 4) Increase faculty participation in professional development. 5) Utilize state assessment data to determine student needs assessment. 6) Implement a grant/letter writing campaign for partnership. Third Year: 1) Develop additional partnerships within the community and beyond. 2) Continue professional development throughout the schools. 3) Develop alternative funding sources for space camp.

Activities for year: 2007 2008 2009 2010 All Years

Sort by: sort by month sort by title sort by performance objective

Read About Planned and Completed Activities
Name	Short Description	Reflection	Evidence

January 2009
ISS Downlink	We will be participating in a live downlink with Expedition 18 on the International Space Station.

February 2009
Snowflakes	I will be going into the 7th grade classroom to talk about my Yellowstone experience. I will also be talking to them about s...

April 2009
Family Night	Our NASA night will have a carnival and Newton's Laws theme.
Student Symposium	NASA provided our school with an opprounity to send two students and one teacher to a student symposium in Houston tx.

June 2009
Exploering physical science Through NASA Mission Janice	NASA 23 teachers will meet at NASA Langley to learn Physical Science activities.

October 2009
DLiNFocus Robotics	We will attend the DLiNfocus event on careers in robotics.
DLN on Robotics	Students will participate in a NASA DLN on robotis and careers.
Family science night	Family science night. Teacher, staff Students and thier families will participate in science activites with a halloween theme.
Stage 2 rockets	Jennifer Reed-Taunton will do a NASA-based stage 2 rocket activity with fourth and fifth graders.
Wallops Island Professional Development	I will attend the Coastal Observations Workshop at Wallops Island, Virginia.

November 2009
DLiNFocus Lunar Exploration	Fourth-sixth grade students will take part in the NASA DLN on lunar exploration and LCROSS>
Electricity with John	John Weiss (our AES contact) will come to the 4th grade classroom to talk with them about electricity and NASA.
Paper Bag Data Analysis	Fourth graders will create a Paper Bag Data Analysis book to use for communication arts.
PDA Observation Collection	Students will create a paper bag observation folder to write and record data from an science investigation.
Thermal Protection System	Science Club students will try to build a thermal Protection system to Protect a nail from warming up and releasing from the ...

December 2009
On the Moon	Students will be given a specific set of materials to create a moon buggy and a touchdown pad. Object of lesson is to move bu...