annual teacher meeting at fullerton college september 19, 2015

Annual Teacher Meetingat Fullerton College

September 19, 2015

ABE-Greater LA Team

Karin SteinhauerPierce College

Sherry Tsai, PhDSite Director

Grace MontgomeryPasadena

Carol FujitaCSUCI

Jo Wu, PhDFullerton College

Wendie Johnston, PhDAdvisor & Pasadena Workday Coordinator

Matthew EmrickLab Technician

Fullerton College

Ranelle BuckAsst Lab Technician

Pasadena

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Karin SteinhauerCenter Coordinator

Pierce College

Sherry Tsai, PhDSite Director

Grace MontgomeryCenter Coordinator

Pasadena

Carol FujitaCenter Coordinator

CSUCI

Jo Wu, PhDCenter CoordinatorFullerton College

ABE-Greater LA Team

Matthew EmrickLab Technician

Fullerton College

Ranelle BuckAsst Lab Technician

Pasadena

+ YOU!

Wendie Johnston, PhDAdvisor & Pasadena Workday Coordinator

www.amgenbiotechexperience.com

World-wide (~425K total)• 11 sites total• Countries:

• UK• Ireland• USA: in CA, WA, CO, MA, RI, DC, & Puerto Rico

World-wide in 2014 - 2015: ~71K students, 884 teachers, 551 schools

Amgen Biotechnology Experience

ABE-Greater LA Site: First & Largest

Distribution centers • CSUCI• Pierce College• Pasadena • Fullerton

College

Counties ServedKern, Los Angeles OrangeRiverside Santa Barbara San BernardinoVentura Tulare

ABE-Greater LA Site (~232K total)

2014 – 2015

24,300 students238 teachers143 schools

History of ABE-Greater LA Site

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Pierce College Distribution Center

Pasadena Distribution Center

CSU CI Distribution Center

Fullerton Distribution Center

2013-14

New in2014-15

42 schools

• Cost for 1 complete kit: ~$23,000

• Cost of the consumable supplies for a class of 40 students to run the ABE labs: ~$170

• Additional associated costs:

staff time, space, training & support costs (~$350 / class)

About the ABE Kit

Please respect the resources that are required to provide you with your kit

ABE Teacher Expectations & Program Policies

Now Less money, More teachers,

More students

Increase our efficiencyMaximize our resources

Maintain a high-quality program

Each Teacher must sign and return the 2015 ABE Program Policy

to your distribution center.

If you are using the Fullerton College Distribution Center, you can sign it now and

turn it in today.


Teacher Expectations

1.Be familiar with and follow all instructions in the ABE lab manuals, on the ABE website, and from their technicians, including instructions on safety and proper waste disposal.

2.Be considerate of the technicians’ time, the program’s resources, and other teachers/schools when reserving the kit and submitting their Materials Request Forms.



3. Communicate problems with the kit to their technicians. This includes noting and also telling their technicians about any broken equipment.

4. Respect the kit equipment.

5. Return the kit in the condition in which it was given.

6. Stick to the kit schedule.

TTTeacher Expectations



7. Respond promptly to communications from their technicians and the site director.

8. Provide data needed for grant reporting, as requested by their technicians or the site director.

- Complete Data Collection survey! - Critically important for making sure we

continue to obtain funding so we can keep the program running.




9. Complete the lab results survey and submit it and their lab results to their technicians.

- Important for quality control of supplies so everyone can get good results.

10. Use the kit checklist to ensure all equipment is present when received and before returning to their technicians. If anything is missing at pick-up, this will be communicated to the technician promptly.


1. New teachers need to be trained at an ABE workshop before they can sign-up for the Amgen kit. Teachers who have never attended a workshop but have been using the Amgen kit should also attend an ABE workshop.

2. When first beginning with the program, teachers will only be allowed to sign-up for labs they have been officially trained to do.

Important Program Policies

Important Program Policies

3. Teachers who do not do all the labs they request materials for may be restricted in which labs they will be allowed to sign up for the following year.

4. We reserve the right to charge for broken or missing equipment.

5. Teachers must implement at least one official ABE lab when borrowing a kit.

- Extension labs are NOT official ABE labs


Critically important for ensuring continued funding!

Data is submitted to the national program office and the Amgen Foundation.

Three types:1. Class Data Collection Survey2. Lab Results Survey3. Workshop Surveys

Class Data Collection


• Complete immediately after you do the ABE labs - Online at ABE-LA.org

• EACH teacher needs to complete for him/herself only- Give numbers for yourself, not your school

• Read the questions carefully and answer them as accurately as possible- Ask your coordinator or Sherry if you do not

understand a question.

Class Data Collection


Class Data Collection Surveys

- Basic info about you and your school- Are you a new ABE teacher? - Is your school new to ABE?- What materials did you get from us?

- Full kit, partial kit, supplies only, lab 1 only- How many students did you teach ABE to?- How many classes did you teach ABE to?- How many types of courses did you teach ABE

to?- Names of courses you taught & which labs you

did with each of them- List labs in “other” if you didn’t complete a full series

Lab Results Survey

• Important for QC & for grant reporting.• Complete immediately after you do the ABE labs

- Online at ABE-LA.org- Contact coordinator if you have problems during

the labs

• EACH teacher needs to complete for him/herself only• Asks whether your students obtained the predicted results

for each of the labs you did. Also save your results for your tech to view.- New question: did at least one of your student groups

obtain the predicted results?


Two-day workshops covering the Abridged Sequence will no longer be offered.

Workshop A: Labs 1 & 5 (1-day)• Pre-requisite to all other workshops• The workshop ALL new teachers need to take• Teacher selection based primarily on our ability to

serve them

Workshop B: Labs 2 & 4 (half-day)Workshop C: Lab 6 (half-day)Workshop D: New PCR (half-day)• Teachers required to have done lab 5 with students

Video reviewing Lab 3 (for Complete Sequence)

New Workshops Series

Additional Workshops (aka PDIs)

• 5-day workshop in July at the Huntington Gardens covering the Complete Sequence

• Supplementary workshops (~ 2/yr)– Extension labs workshop– Bioinformatics workshop

• Timing of workshops and topics of supplementary workshops decided from the results of the May 2015 teacher PD interest survey

• Apply for all workshops on ABE-LA.org (home page)


Ventury County / Pierce College Area• Sat, Oct 3 @ Fillmore HS: Workshop A (Labs 1

& 5)• Sat, Nov 14: TBD: Workshop B (Labs 2 & 4)• Sat, Jan 6: TBD: Workshop C (Lab 6)• Sat, Feb 20 : Workshop D (new Colony PCR)

Upcoming Workshops:Save the Dates

Upcoming Workshops:Save the Dates

Workshops at Fullerton College• Sat, Sept 19: Workshop D (new Colony PCR)• Sat, Nov 14: Workshop A (Labs 1 & 5)• Sat, Feb 27: Workshop B (Labs 2 & 4)• Sat, Feb 27: Workshop C (Lab 6)

annual teacher meeting at fullerton college september 19, 2015

Documents

abe labs

abe website

abe kitplease

complete kit

abe lab manuals

abe program policy

technicians time

kit equipment