The Exploratorium Summer Teacher Institute in San Francisco, California, is a 4-week professional development experience that will invigorate your teaching with techniques to inspire your students to become excited about learning. The institute is held during the end of June and into July.

For over 22 years, the Teacher Institute has been training teachers from all over the country in inquiry learning techniques. The workshops are a rich mix of hands-on activities based on Exploratorium exhibits, content-based instruction, web-based teaching resources and machine shop experiences.

The Institute professors show innovative ways to introduce true inquiry learning into your classroom with cheap, everyday materials.  Teachers who have attended the Institute in the past have called it a “life-changing experience.” 

"The experience was awesome! We have so much to share and hope other teachers from Arkansas get to have this experience." These words were spoken by a teacher who had returned from the four-week workshop in San Francisco, California.

We want Arkansas’ teachers to have this incredible opportunity and to share these inquiry teaching methods with other teachers.  A generous grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation has enabled the Arkansas Discovery Network to send 6 teachers to the Institute in 2008.

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