In addition, Project Energy leadership teams will strengthen the energy literacy of Alabama's youth by conducting numerous professional development activities for other Alabama teachers, students, and parents. Formation of partnerships, professional development, and dissemination of energy science knowledge, materials, and instructional methods are the principal processes of action in this project. Organizations and people with energy science information and expertise are being linked to Alabama's teachers of science. Expertise, materials, support or a forum for presenting workshops will be provided by numerous organizations. Project Energy is designed to help support an important reform initiative, the development of scientific literacy.
Reform is part of the educational process in the State of Alabama.
Project Energy will support this initiative through enhancing communication among teachers, students, energy science researchers, business and industry, and DOE laboratories. It will utilize opportunities for communication to foster partnerships among these groups that will lead to the development of exemplary classrooms in energy education. The Alabama State Department of Education has embarked on a new initiative, the enhancement of science education for all students in the state. It has introduced new goals and guidelines for science teaching. Project Energy will help promote a major strand of this new priority, energy literacy.