The wonderful thing about giving teachers space to "geek out" about texts is that it respects them as thinkers and learners and lovers of the written word.*.*
David Gagenda, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, read reporters a statement signed by 550 scientists and educators representing a host of industries and arenas central to Texas life -- including high school teachers, space industry chemists and oil company engineers.
Have your own space as a teacher.
"Christa was, is, and always will be our 'Teacher in Space,' our first teacher to fly," she said in a NASA interview.
"We need more teachers, instruments, space, funding".
Allowing teachers the space, trust, training and resources to do what they do best is what will lead to educational excellence everywhere.
1986 28 January Six astronauts and Christa McAuliffe (right), who was part of a teachers in space project, are killed when Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds into its 10th mission.
There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space.
Thirty years ago today, the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up 73 seconds into its 10th mission, killing the seven crewmembers onboard, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, who was to be the first teacher in space.
But the agency liked the concept of a teacher in space and in 1998 hit upon the idea of training teachers to be real astronauts, just as it trains scientists and other professionals to be mission specialists.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the thirty-seven-year-old economics, history, and law teacher from New Hampshire's Concord High School represented the culmination of NASA's Teacher in Space program.
