In five days of fun and stimulation, you’ll learn how to transform your teaching practice and the curriculum to meet your own high professional hopes and dreams — as well as the swirl of new standards around you.

The Private Eye is a STEM delight, it’s truly STEAM (the “A” is for Art), and it’s oh so literacy-rich!  Teachers who’ve taken this course consistently talk about how it improves students’ comparative and critical thinking, their ease in writing and engagement with reading, and their scientific thinking — interwoven.

You’ll leave this course refreshed and excited to start the school year!
I can’t wait to get started and feel that this class has reinvigorated my own interest in science and teaching science."   --Allyson Dubuque, Beaverton School District, OR 

And it will change your impact:
“This has brought a love of writing and joy of writing and the personality of each student into their writing which was not there before. ... Kids struggled last year to understand analogy. For example, “the Constitution is like a three-legged stool” kids didn’t get before. This year [from using The Private Eye] they really get it. They speak in metaphor, in analogies all day long. All day long we get to that deeper thinking. We have such deep conversations about people, Ghandi, for example, and they use “that reminds me of ___” and they theorize. I love it.  Because The Private Eye is a great tool for [building] a foundation in integration, because we’re integrating, we’re much further along and the kids are more engaged, and ahead in content areas"
                 --Christine Campanella, Portland Public Schools, 5th Grade Teacher

10. You'll learn how to help your students build and apply the most important habits of mind for success in school and life.

9. You'll love how easy it is to meet the Common Core using The Private Eye. (We provide “how-to’s” throughout course.)

8. You’ll slide down a flower’s throat and emerge aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (Find out what a tight fit The Private Eye has with  the Crosscutting Concepts of Science and Engineering — which apply, as well, to the Arts and Humanities.)

7. With The Private Eye’s research-based strategies, your teaching will shine and your students will, too. (The Private Eye method matches Marazano’s top strategies for achievement and the latest in brain-studies.)

6. You’ll learn how to integrate one subject with another and turn on a dime.

5. You’ll come away with an equity practice and process that allows every kind of learner to bloom.

4. You'll learn how to make your own Georgia O’Keeffe hat and wear it anytime you want.

3. It's free? Yes!* If you're one of the lucky ones whose districts offer tuition reimbursement.  (It's a little known secret, check it out!)

2. You’ll receive $200 of free Private Eye materials to boost student achievement—thanks to a generous grant!   Click here to see what you receive..

1. Every day you'll do the two-minute, funky Private Eye Aerobics!

+1. Because it will change your life and your students’ lives.

So register now!
Sci 510: Integrating STEM Crosscutting Ideas Using The Private Eye® Program
Take the course for credit — or without. Here’s the flyer:

Carol Biskupic Knight, our fearless and fabulous co-instructor, will help you register to make things easier. Contact her at bis2@pdx.edu or call her at: (503) 961-5259

We hope to see you this August!

• - Kerry Ruef, Creator and Founder of The Private Eye Project
• - David Melody, Associate Director, The Private Eye Project
• - Carol Biskupic Knight, Director STEM Teachers Academy