Arizona Geographic Alliance(AzGA)

The Arizona Geographic Alliance (AzGA) was founded in 1992 as part of a national network of state geography alliances

sponsored by the National Geographic Society.

AzGA is headquartered at the Arizona State University School of Geographic Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ

Our Mission

Advocate for geographic literacy in K-12 education

Provide quality educational resources

Promote professional development opportunities

Encourage a culture of creative, passionate, and exciting teaching of geography

Showcase geography as a discipline linking the physical and social sciences

Our Accomplishments in the last 10 years:

Conducted over 394 workshops Impacted 16,858 teachers of 677,700

students and 100s of pre-service teachers

Provided weekly online resources to nearly 4,200 educators

Supported the annual National Geographic Society’s National Geographic Bee and Geography Awareness Week

Hosted an annual Arizona state Geography Conference

Led in-depth Southwest field studies Trained Teacher Consultants through

Summer Geography Institutes Held theme-based Advanced Alliance

Summer Geographical Institutes

Our Awards

Recognized by the National Council for the Social Studies and the George F. Cram Company with the “Grant for the Enhancement of Geographic Literacy” for the AzGA GeoLiteracy Project in 2003 and for the AzGA GeoMath Project in 2005

Awarded the 2010 National

Council for Geographic Education Geography “Excellence in Media Award” for the GeoLiteracy with ELL Adaptations

Our Website:http://geoalliance.asu.edu/azga/

Over 185 GeoLiteracy Lessons Over 100 GeoSTEM Lessons 80 Diverse Learners Geography

Lessons Over 130 GeoHistory Lessons 73 Legacy (Arizona) Lessons 100s of Teacher-Tested Maps Annual GeoConferences GeoWorkshops ELL Virtual Workshops Resource Links

Our Leadership Co-Coordinators: Dr. Ronald Dorn and Gale Olp Ekiss

Over 170 K-12 Teacher Consultants

Co-Founders: Drs. Malcolm Comeaux and Robert Mings

Office Manager: Cathy Davis

Our Partnershipso Colleges of Educationo K-12 Educatorso K-12 Administratorso Community Leaderso Business Leaderso Sister Professional Associationso Policy Makerso Educational Outreach

Organizationso Other State Geographic

Allianceso More…

Current Financial Status

The AzGA mission is currently supported by

• Grants• Fee-for-Service• Costs Shared with Partners• NGS Endowment• Volunteer labor and

• ASU School of Geographic Sciences & Urban Planning

Financial Future

Sustained Funding AzGA continually actively seeks additional

opportunities for

• Grants

• Restored State Funding

• New Partnerships

• Endowment additions

• Fee-for-Service possibilities

Grants Received• Teachers of Language Learners Learning

Community (2012) Mesa Community College USDOEd grant partner (5 years)

• Teaching Arizona History with an Arizona Atlas (2012) Arizona Historical Advisory Commission (AHAC)

 

• Social Studies (2012) Teaching Foundations Project, ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teaching College (MLFTC)

• Teaching Arizona History with a Geographic Perspective: Lessons for K-12 Classrooms (2011) Arizona Historical Advisory Commission (AHAC)

• Changing Face of the Arizona Border (2011) Arizona Humanities Council

1996 – 2010Grants and Awards from National Geographic Education Foundation, Arizona Department of Education, National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) and others totaled $2.3 million and funded developing the GeoLiteracy & GeoMath lesson and professional development projects, an atlas, professional development focused on Primary Sources, workshops, institutes and conferences.

Arizona Geographic Alliance

Arizona State University

School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning

P O Box 875302

Tempe, AZ 85287-5302

480-965-5361 | fax 480-965-8313

azga@asu.edu

http://geoalliance.asu.edu/azga/