Expert Inservices Inc.

 




Expert Inservices Inc. arranges professional development seminars and workshops for students and teachers as well as science shows for the general public. We draw from a staff that is highly experienced and has expertise in all science subjects.


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In-Service Staff:
Staff
Subjects
Audience
Ronnee
Yashon

-Biology
-Bioethics

-Educators
-Students:
..High School -
.. post grad.

George
Leonberger

-Astronomy
-Earth Science

-General Public
-Educators
-Students:
.. Mid. school -
.. post grad.

Wilton
Wong

-Physical Science
-Life Sciences
-Cheap Science

-General Public
-Educators
-Students:
.. Mid. school -
.. post grad.

Jamie
Larsen

-Life Science
-Environmental Science
-Technology

-General Public
-Educators
-Students:
.. Mid. school -
.. post grad.

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Expert Inservices Inc.
98 Curtis Ave.
West Somerville, MA 02144

Phone:

617-625-6165

Fax:

617-629-7674

E-mail:

ryashon@yahoo.com

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Staff

George Leonberger:
George Leonberger is a veteran teacher with many awards including the H. Dudley Wright Fellowship. His expertise is in astronomy for beginners and advanced students. He can give earth science and general science teachers a great deal of astronomy activities that work well in the classroom.

Specialties-

  • Educator in-servicing (workshop titles)
    • Feel at Home Under the Nighttime Skies!
    • Find Your Place on Earth
    • How to Turn Your Students Into Amateur Astronomers
    • Astronomy on the Internet
    • Using Internet data
    • Environmental Chemistry Activities.
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Jamie Larsen:
Jamie taught science for public and private schools in grades 6-college. He has won numerous national awards for science teaching including an NSTA TAPESTRY grant for his Slam Dunk Science Project, NSTA Screen Report award for his Alien Autopsy-A Case for Skeptical Inquiry, and a USWest Connecting Teachers grant for his Nature's Apprentice Project. As a fellow at Tufts University's Wright Center for Innovation in Science Education he was responsible for organizing conferences ranging from Frontiers in Science to Frontiers in Ethnobiology as well as developing an award winning web site: Slam Dunk Science. He has written activities for the PBS series Scientific American Frontiers and NOVA and is currently a Senior Curriculum Developer for a non-profit science and math curriculum development group.

Specialties-

  • Educator in-servicing
  • Hands-on science workshops
  • Integrating Science Across the Curriculum
  • Writing / Authoring
  • Web Development
  • Consulting
On-line activities
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Ronnee Yashon:
Ronnee is a nationally known expert in teaching bioethics in the science classroom. She has taught in secondary, undergraduate, graduate and law school. She was awarded the Presidential Award for Outstanding Science Teaching and has been honored as the outstanding biology teacher in Illinois.

Her case study methodology for introducing bioethics into the curriculum uses simple, personalized and current scenarios that involve the student in decision making.

Specialties-

  • Educator in-servicing
  • Classroom presentations
  • Writing / Authoring
  • Consulting
On-line activities | Publications
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Wilton Wong:
During the past 23 years, I have served as a teacher of science at three different high schools and have been science department chair at two of them.

There have been a number of awards that I have been lucky to be honored with which include: the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching from NSTA and NSF, California Educator Award from the Milken Family Foundation and the State Department of Education, Outstanding Teacher Award from the Exploratorium, J. Russell Kent Award for an exemplary program from San Mateo County, and a TAPESTRY grant award from NSTA.

As an active member of the teaching community, I have also served on the Standards Committee of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and now work with West Ed in the development of the assessment for national certification of science teachers; the co-chair of the California Science Teachers Association state wide conference; the George Lucas Education Foundation in the development of multimedia educational products; the state committee on assessment development in science; and now the director of the Capuchino Science Center.

Specialties-

  • Educator in-servicing
  • Hands-on science workshops
  • Writing/Authoring
  • Consulting
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