PASCO scientific & Laying the Foundation Partner Together to Improve Science Education

DALLAS, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Laying the Foundation (LTF), a teacher professional development program, and PASCO scientific, a global leader in technology-based solutions for science, have signed a partnership together with the goal of improving science education. The partnership will allow these two market-leading organizations to collaborate on creating new and innovative content and teacher training.

PASCO and LTF enter this partnership with their sights set on creating new, innovative teaching content that will be used for teacher training and for classroom instruction. "By collaborating on the creation of classroom-ready lessons, labs, activities, and teacher training materials, this partnership will give science educators access to the very best content available," said Jared Brueckner, VP of business development at LTF. "The training materials created will provide the 'what' for teachers, and the resources, when coupled with PASCO's technology-driven equipment, will give teachers the 'how.' This will ensure that teachers have everything they need to improve science education for students."

Broader goals of this partnership include increasing students' interest in STEM subjects, and, by extension, increasing the number of students entering STEM fields in college and beyond. The use of technology is an important component of this effort, and both PASCO and LTF are working diligently to utilize the latest technology available in their efforts, including producing open source lessons that can be used on mobile devices.

About Laying the Foundation
Laying the Foundation, a division of the National Math and Science Initiative, is dedicated to providing the best content-based, pedagogy-driven, teacher-to-teacher training, supported by rigorous classroom-ready lessons and web-based resources to improve the quality of math, science, and English instruction. LTF has trained over 36,000 teachers to date and has demonstrated dramatic increases in Advanced Placement exam participation and success in STEM subjects. LTF believes that training, mentoring, and empowering the teacher corps will lead to high standards of academic excellence for all students.

About PASCO scientific
PASCO scientific has been guided by just one mission: to provide educators worldwide with innovative solutions for teaching science. PASCO has become a global leader in developing technology-based solutions for hands-on science, serving educators and students in more than 100 countries around the world. PASCO's team of former teachers, educational researchers, engineers and many more are dedicated to improving student success in science education.

Contact:
Kaci Schack
[email protected]
214.525.3009
www.ltftraining.org

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