The 2010 ISTA Conference will be held in conjunction with the PIE conference. It has been several years since an ISTA conference was held up north and joining with PIE is a great opportunity to meet the needs of science teachers in the northern part of the state. ISTA will provide a variety of workshops. Steve Shropshire from Idaho State University will be presenting a free and exciting science show for conference participants, parents and children of the community at 5:00 on Thursday, October 7th in the High School auditorium. His shows are always entertaining and informative.

For registration and conference updates, please check our website at: www.idscienceteachers.org

Slugger Cover Our guest children’s author for 2010 will be Phil Bildner, 42, who grew up in the New York City suburb of Jericho, Long Island and began teaching in the New York City Public Schools in the Tremont section of the South Bronx. Phil left the classroom in 2006 in order to write full time. In addition to his picture books (Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy, The Shot Heard ‘Round the World, Twenty One Elephants, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Turkey Bowl, The Hallelujah Flight) and teen novels (Playing the Field, Busted), Phil is the co-creator (with Loren Long) of The New York Times bestselling chapter book series, Sluggers! In 2010, the final two books in the series hits shelves.
Check out his website at: http://www.philbildner.com.

Phil’s Workshops for Thursday and repeated on Friday: