Newsletters
Once a month.
Two different audiences.
One for people who teach — in classrooms, camps, libraries and afterschool programs. One for families doing it at the kitchen table. They overlap a little and they are not the same, because the two jobs are not the same.
Take either. Take both. It is one email a month either way.
What both are like
Short, monthly, and actually useful.
We would rather send one thing worth opening than four things worth deleting.
Each list goes out at the start of the month. Signing up for both does not double it — it is one email per list, and they carry different things.
Not a product circular. Funding that is actually open, activities that fit the time you have, and things worth knowing before somebody asks you about them.
Every issue has an unsubscribe link that works, and we do not sell or share your address. Switching lists or leaving takes one click.
For people who teach
The Educator Newsletter.
Written for the room you actually have.
Classroom teachers, camp and afterschool leaders, librarians, museum and rec center staff, district and program administrators.Formal or informal, the constraints are the same: a fixed block of time, a group bigger than you would like, a budget somebody else controls, and a standard you have to be able to point at. This one is written around those.
- Funding that is open now. Grants, deadlines and the kind of language that gets an application read, not a list of every program that exists.
- Standards alignment. Which standards an activity actually meets, in the words you would use on a plan, so you are not reverse-engineering it yourself.
- What is moving in education. Shifts worth knowing about before a board meeting, with enough context to tell the real ones from the noise.
- Running small groups well. How to introduce a small-group experience without losing the rest of the room, and what to do when the timing goes wrong.
- How to become a NASA site. The steps, what it takes to host, and what it looks like once you are one.
For people at home
The Family Newsletter.
For the table, the driveway and the back seat.
Parents, caregivers, grandparents and homeschool educators.Most of what a child decides about whether science is for them gets decided outside a classroom. This one is about that half — short, doable, and written for an evening rather than a lesson plan.
- Connecting the classroom to the kitchen table. What they are learning at school, and the version of it you can do at home in twenty minutes with what you already own.
- Career discovery at home. How to show a child what people actually do all day, without it turning into a conversation about what they want to be.
- Getting a learner excited. Ways in for the child who says they are not a science person, and for the one who already is and has run out of room.
- How to become a NASA family. What it involves, what it costs, and what a family actually does with it.
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Plenty of people take both. A teacher at work is often a parent at home, and the two newsletters are written for those two different conversations.
Rather just ask us something?
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