What's Important in the September Issue of the Washington Science Teachers Journal?

Not much, if you're not going to the fall conference.

The WSTA is our professional organization for science teachers here in the Evergreen State, and they usually do a pretty good job with their quarterly journal, but this most recent issue is underwhelming. There's 20-something pages about the upcoming conference, and nothing else.

Nothing about the results of the science WASL.
Nothing from the universities.
Nothing from teachers, sharing their experiences in the classroom.
Nothing on LASER, FOSS.....nothing.

I'll give them credit for being on the ball with their conference brochure--I had to email WORD directly to get any information at all about their upcoming conference in Spokane--but it's hard to sell people on the value of belonging to their state organization when I put the magazine in the staff room and there isn't content there that teachers can sink their teeth into.

I hope the next issue steps things up.