Center Director at National Center for Earth and Space Science Education
Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Current
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- Center Director at National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, NCESSE
- Past
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- Center Director at NCESSE, Universities Space Research Association
- Exec VP at Challenger Center
- Acting Chairman, Lab for Astrophysics at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
- Astrophysicist at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
- Education
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- University of Pennsylvania
- City University of New York-Queens College
- Bronx High School of Science
- Connections
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- Industry
- Education Management
- Websites
Jeff Goldstein’s Summary
jeffgoldstein@ncesse.org
At a time when America's ability to compete in emerging high tech markets of the 21st century is of national strategic importance, I am committed to create, implement & sustain science education programs of national rank, and across the grade K-16 pipeline, that have the ability to both inspire and educate the next generation. Programs engage entire communities - grade K-12 students, their teachers and families.
See: http://ncesse.org/overview
Programs reflect NCESSE's fundamental belief that 'it takes a community to educate a child...and a network of communities to reach a generation.'
Success requires effectiveness in:
1. Fundraising for education programs: federal unsolicited/solicited grants & contracts, w/ awards of $500K-$1.6M; philanthropic giving from foundations/individuals, w/ awards of $200K-$500K; and fundraising on behalf of communities w/ sub-awards to NCESSE.
2. Coalition building: organizing a sustainable group of education stakeholders in a community for program definition, fundraising & implementation.
3. Supporting a network of 'learning communities.'
4. Maintaining strong relationships with both science research & science education communities, engaging individuals/organizations at nat'l, regional & local levels.
5. Reaching underserved communities...to ensure there is only one America. NCESSE program heritage is with inner city & rural communities.
6. Designing programs whose hallmarks are excellence in:
-community-wide delivery by: customizing to a community's strategic needs in STEM education, delivering systemically & designing for sustainability.
-elevating scientists/engineers as heroes & role models by actively engaging them in programs, selecting those gifted at talking to diverse audiences.
7. Managing a dedicated team whose creativity I actively seek, respect & recognize; where communication is of utmost importance; & roles/responsibilities are clearly defined.
Jeff Goldstein’s Specialties:
Org leadership; strat planning; development lead
Leading multi-org teams
Nationally recognized science educator
Program/curric. design for science centers & school districts
Proposal writer: federal/philanthropic
Author/curator: exhibitions/websites
Sci ed consultant
Keynote/dinner speaker: education/corporate conferences
200+ workshops for K-12 educators
1000+ public presentations
Astrophysicist: planetary atmospheres, laser system development
Jeff Goldstein’s Experience
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Center Director
National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, NCESSE
(Education Management industry)
2007 — Present (2 years)
jeffgoldstein@ncesse.org
Beyond Center oversight, Program Director for:
1. Voyage Model Solar System: exhibit permanently installed on National Mall, Wash., DC; replicas permanently installed in communities worldwide. Upcoming: Space Center Houston & Kansas City, MO, install Oct '08.
2. Journey through the Universe: community-wide STEM education program tailored to community's strategic needs, systemic across school districts & sustainable. Audiences: K-12 students, their teachers & families. >200,000 students participated nationally.
3. MESSENGER Educator Fellowship Program: for NASA MESSENGER mission to Mercury, national corps of master science educators training K-12 teachers in Earth & Space Science. 10,700 teachers trained since '04.
4. Family Night at Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum: after hours in most visited museum on Earth, 450 parents, students & teachers from DC-area schools journey to stars with space scientists as guides. 41,500 have attended. -
Center Director
NCESSE, Universities Space Research Association
(Non-Profit; Research industry)
2005 — 2007 (2 years)
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Exec VP
Challenger Center
(Education Management industry)
1996 — 2005 (9 years)
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Acting Chairman, Lab for Astrophysics
Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
(Educational Institution; Education Management industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year)
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Astrophysicist
Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
(Educational Institution; Education Management industry)
1988 — 1995 (7 years)
Jeff Goldstein’s Education
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University of Pennsylvania
M.S., Ph.D. , Astrophysics , 1980 — 1989
Recipient, one of two Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Awards in the physical sciences, Sigma Xi, University of Pennsylvania Chapter.
Thesis: Absolute Wind Velocities in the Lower Thermosphere of Venus Using Infrared Heterodyne Spectroscopy (first direct detection of global winds on Venus above the clouds)
Thesis research at NASA/GSFC as NASA Graduate Student Researcher; Advisor: Dr. Michael Mumma
While a graduate student:
*1981-85 Instructor, Astronomy & Astrophysics, U. of Pennsylvania
*1980-85 Teaching Fellow, Astronomy & Astrophysics, U. of Penn.
*1984 Adjunct Lecturer (summer), Mathematics, Harcum Junior College
*1982 Adjunct Lecturer (summer), Physics, Queens College, CUNY, NY
*1982 Adjunct Lecturer (summer), Physical Sciences, Spring Garden College, Chestnut Hill, PA
*1980-81 Adjunct Lecturer, Physics, Queensborough Comm. College, CUNY, NY
*1980 Adjunct Lecturer, Physics, Bronx Comm. College, CUNY, NY -
City University of New York-Queens College
B.S. , Physics and Mathematics , 1975 — 1979
Physics Award
Created/directed physics department's Tutorial Program
Amanuensis for New York State Department of Vocational Rehabilitation; tutor in mathematics (through AP calculus) and science for gifted students with severe physical disability. -
Bronx High School of Science
1973 — 1975
A school that fed the imagination, from which grew the dreams of a next generation.
Additional Information
Jeff Goldstein’s Websites:
Jeff Goldstein’s Honors:
2005 Klumpke-Roberts Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Public Understanding and Appreciation of Astronomy, Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Former recipients: 1980 Walter Sullivan; 1975 Isaac Asimov; 1974 Carl Sagan
2004 Aerospace Ed. Excellence Award, Nat'l Congress on Aviation and Space Ed., Civil Air Patrol
2003 Salute to Excellence, Kalamazoo Section, American Chem. Soc.
1996 Outstanding Contributions to Prince George's County Public Schools
1995 Barry M. Goldwater Education Award, Nat'l Capital Section, American Inst. Aeronautics & Astronautics
1993 Smithsonian Exhibition Award, Best School Program
1992 Award of Achievement, Soc. of Technical Communication, Washington, DC
1990 Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, U. Pennsylvania Chapter
1989 Sustained Superior Performance Award, Nat'l Air & Space Museum
1985-88 NASA Graduate Student Researcher, NASA GSFC
Jeff Goldstein’s Contact Settings
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- new ventures
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