Using the grandeur of space to teach hands-on, standards-based lessons to teachers to impact the next generation

What is TeachSpace?

TeachSpace is a hands-on, standards-based series of workshops to help teachers better integrate technology and science across the curriculum.  Billy and Terry Sue have a combined 50 years of successful and award winning teaching into a program that is informative and inspirational.  After witnessing many in-service programs that did not engage teachers to return to the classroom and implement what they learned, TeachSpace was created in the early 90’s to do just that.  Billy and Terry Sue have been classroom teachers and both have worked at NASA in several different educational programs.  They draw upon a vast and diverse background with a desire to make teachers excited about returning to the classroom. 

TeachSpace was initially only offered to rural schools for many years.  As part of every program, each teacher leaves with hands-on experiments or projects that are conducted in class.  All the lessons are rooted in STEM and other connections to the curriculum.  The name TeachSpace is used to help catch the interest of  teachers and students alike, however, all projects are used to teach "down to earth" lessons. 

TeachSpace has met with high praise from teachers in Tennessee, Alabama, Maine, and Kentucky.  TeachSpace programs have been featured on educational TV programs as well as many statewide and national educational conferences.  The goal of each TeachSpace program is to excite teachers, demonstrate new ways of teaching their curriculum, to sustained the teachers growth through ongoing contact during the school year, and to return the next year to take teachers to the next higher level.