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BINAP 2025

About

BINAP is the BIg Nitarp Alumni Project


Abstract

One thing that is missing from the NITARP experience is the production of concrete, sharable lesson plans based on skills learned during NITARP, specifically lesson plans that might be distributed within and beyond NITARP alumni. NITARP alumni are diverse, representing schools that are large/medium/small, urban/ suburban/rural, public/private; settings ranging among middle school/high school/community college/museum/ informal ed; physics/astronomy/earth science/ chemistry/math/computer science teachers; in classrooms (quarter, semester, year-long)/ clubs/ dedicated research classes/ individual mentoring contexts. Therefore, even the same individual concept may need several different implementations to work in these wildly different environments. The BIg Nitarp Alumni Project (BINAP) is a self-organizing group of alumni that has embarked on an effort to take a “typical” rich NITARP experience, break it into “bite-size” pieces, and develop at least one lesson plan based on each piece that will work in at least a few of these environments. This work addresses the gap in the literature of “exploring how teachers adopt or translate the curriculum or instructional approaches advocated in the PDP [professional development program]” (Luft & Hewson, 2014, p. 903).







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Forester

Mr. David Forester

Mission Vista High School, Oceanside, California


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Debbie

Dr. Debbie French

New Philadelphia High School, New Philadelphia, Ohio Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina



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Mehta

Ms. Shefali Mehta

Hadam-Killingworth High School, Higganum, Connecticut


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Riordan

Ms. Michelle Riordan

Police Activities League of Egg Harbor Township & Atlantic County, Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey


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Quotes

  • I love NITARP. I think it's been one of the most amazing programs I've ever been part of, and easily the most effective professional development group or career enhancing group I've ever been part of. I could go on for hours.

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