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• It is often difficult for teachers to implement their action proposals due to changing course assignments, increasingly strict and widespread pacing guides, and new End of Course Exams. Although the problem of implementation still exists, it is less onerous since school administrators must agree, in writing, to support the teacher's completion of program requirements (both classroom activities and return to present at Symposium).Teachers are also more confident about incorporating new curricular activities/modules since they have many examples that evidence good outcomes in others' classrooms. Access to scientists and equipment is also helpful, especially if the admin is invited to see the classroom activities and outcomes. Networking and professional learning communities are very powerful resources.
• There is no money for content-rich professional development in Florida. Socioscientific themes such as Emerging Pathogens that connect university strengths and multiple school standards (along with community needs) offer real-world learning opportunities about STEM and STEM careers, and yield measureable benefits for all stakeholders, especially future scientists and scientifically literate citizens. In the words of one ICORE teacher: "Programs such as ICORE should be the standard for professional development in Science. Proliferation of programs like this one should be a focus of governments and organizations nationwide." At UF, we will do everything we can to nurture and sustain the components of this program. Without having HHMI support to leverage, it will be difficult to fund stipends, so harder to reach the teachers and students who are most in need of this type of program... and that will be our challenge. We have secured grants and written proposals that build on some aspects of ICORE, and we are very pleased that we, together with our teachers, have helped create a growing cadre of research faculty who are truly interested and willing to involve themselves and their students in research education and outreach.

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