Tennessee Linking Leaders
Conference
Building Partnerships for Success
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The National Alliance of State Science and Mathematics Coalitions (NASSMC), in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
( NASA ), sponsor’s the state-based Linking Leaders program.

Program’s primary goals are:
  • Provide resources and
    opportunities for state-level leadership groups
  • Collaborate with NASA and its affiliates for the purpose of aligning NASA’s resources with the state’s mathematics, science, and technology education (MSTE) reform agenda;
  • Build the commitment to establish and strengthen a
    broad-based coalition of
    business, education, and
    public policy
  • Address the state’s MSTE
    needs.

In each participating state, NASSMC supports a three-year process designed to align NASA’s programs and resources with the systemic efforts of the coalition to improve mathematics, science, and technology education for all students.

The State of Tennessee is participating in the Linking Leader Program (2002-2005). The NASA and NASSMC funded program is coordinated through the Tennessee Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education Center.



 Design Team Members Include: 

• Drew Kim, Policy Chief, Office of
the Governor
• Dr. Lana Seivers,Commissioner,
Dept. of Education
• Matthew Kisber, Commissioner,
Dept. of Economic & Community
Dev.
• Representative John Hood,
Member, House Committee on
Education
• Senator Larry Trail, Member,
Senate Committee on
Education
• Dr. Paula Short, Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs, TBR
• Emil Hassan, Senior Vice
President, Nissan North
America
• Ron Nichols, Vice President for
Operations, South Central
Region State Farm Insurance
• Dr. Kenneth Smith, Manager of
Huntsville Operations, Applied
Research & Engineering
Services (ARES Corp.)
• Peggy Berger, Director of
Salaried Personnel, Saturn
Corp.
• Dr. L. Diane Miller, Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs,
MTSU
• Linda Jordan, Science
Coordinator, Department of
Education
• Iris Hubbard, Mathematics
Coordinator, Dept. of Education
• Jerry Bates, Director of Applied
School Technology, Dept. of
Education
• Dr. Alvin Strauss, Director,
Tennessee Space Grant
Consortium, Chair, Mechanical
Engineering, Vanderbilt
University
• Dr. Schunn Price, Assistant
Principal, Antioch High School
• Dr. Gloria Bonner, Dean,
College of Education &
Behavioral Sciences, MTSU
• Dr. Cindi Smith-Walters,
Associate Director, TMSTEC, Professor of Biology, MTSU
• Dr. E. Ray Phillips, Director,
TMSTEC, Professor Emeritus,
Mathematics,
MTSU
 In order to achieve the mission, all TMSTEC activities are directed at five major goals:

• Provide quality staff development
for teachers of mathematics and
science, particularly in the
effective use of technology in
teaching and learning.

• Participate in the development of
undergraduate and graduate
programs of mathematics and
science education programs.

• Influence State policies related to
mathematics, science and
technology education.
• Develop strong partnerships with
other stakeholders in education
(business, industry, funding
agencies, K-12 school systems,
higher education, Department of
Education, and the legislature).
• Establish a Mathematics and Science
Education Research Group to
conduct scholarly inquiry on the
teaching and learning of
mathematics and science.

MTSU Home Page Tennessee Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education Center
Box 82, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Phone: 615-904-8573
FAX: 615-907-9614
e-mail: jcarter@mtsu.edu
http:/www.mtsu.edu/tmstec