Yes, the rumors you have heard are all true! The Arkansas STEM Coalition is providing FREE eclipse glasses for every public school student, teacher, and staff member in the state of Arkansas, including all open-enrollment charter schools!!! Every school will receive enough glasses for EVERY student, teacher, and staff member.
Every school that reported to ADE for the 2023-2024 school year will get glasses. If you want to make sure that your school is on the list, just check ADE’s Statewide Information System Report: “Enrollment Count by School.”
If you are NOT on ADE’s list and should be, please contact us immediately!
No! We worked with the ADE data system to create a list of all public schools that reported enrollment for the 2023-2024 school year. If your school reported to ADE for this school year, your school is on our list!
That is not our decision to make, so the Superintendent of the district and/or Principal at your school will be making that decision. Please check with your Superintendent or Principal!
Each school will get enough glasses for every student, teacher, and staff member. The exact number is based on enrollment and staffing numbers that each school reported to ADE for the 2023-2024 school year, including certified teachers, certified staff, and classified staff.
Each district office will receive glasses for staff not based in schools.
Calculations include an overage, so you will receive MORE glasses to account for fluctuations in your enrollment and staffing.
Yes! Public schools with Pre-K programs that report Pre-K enrollment to the ADE Division of Elementary & Secondary Education are included.
Glasses for Pre-K students that attend a school along with other K-12 grades will be included in the total count for each school.
Schools that only have Pre-K students will receive their own bundles of glasses.
Yes! Every Coop will receive their own package of glasses with enough for your staff. The number you receive will be based on the number of employees reported to ADE in the fall of 2023 for the 2023-2024 school year.
Your school will still receive glasses! You get glasses far enough in advance to give them to students and staff to take home.
If you are out of school that day, PLEASE make sure that your students know how to properly use their glasses. You can get tips for safe viewing here: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/safety/
Click HERE to contact The Arkansas STEM Coalition if you have questions about the general process or logistics, want to confirm that this is really happening, or have a media inquiry.
If you have questions about the logistics of getting your glasses from a coop, you need to contact your coop’s Eclipse Glasses Coordinator. A list of coordinators can be found HERE. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT YOUR COOP COORDINATOR BEFORE GLASSES ARE SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE AT THE COOP.
THIS INCLUDES SCHOOLS THAT DO NOT PAY FOR SERVICES!!
Your coop will be coordinating how you get your glasses. Some glasses will be delivered to coops before Spring Break and some will arrive just after Spring Break, then coops will distribute them from there. Coops will either deliver glasses to district offices or will have schools pick up glasses at the coop office.
Some schools may get individual deliveries in special circumstances. Each coop has a designated Eclipse Glasses Coordinator, and you can find the list of coordinators and their contact information by CLICKING HERE.
NOTE: Each coop will receive glasses that have been bundled by school and by district, so all of a single district’s glasses will be together but also divided up by school. District offices will receive a separate bundle of glasses for staff not based in schools.
The Arkansas STEM Coalition will be delivering glasses directly to individual schools in the Little Rock School District between March 25-29. The LRSD’s K-12 STEM Director, Jennifer Beasley, is the eclipse glasses coordinator and has provided the STEM Coalition with the name of a contact person at each LRSD school, so we will deliver glasses to that person’s attention when we deliver glasses to schools. Ms. Beasley’s email is Jennifer.Beasley (at) lrsd.org and her phone number is 501-447-3376.
The LRSD main office will receive a separate bundle of glasses for staff not based in schools.
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR DELIVERY OF GLASSES, PLEASE CONTACT US, NOT LRSD!
The Arkansas STEM Coalition will be delivering glasses to Arkansas Public School Resource Center (APSRC) offices and/or to individual schools by March 26. With a few exceptions, charter schools will pick up their glasses at either the Little Rock or Northwest AR office, in a process that APSRC describes as being similar to how PPE was distributed during COVID. APSRC’s Director of Charter Development, Luanne Baroni, is the eclipse glasses coordinator for charter schools. Ms. Baroni’s email is lbaroni (at) apsrc.net and the office number is 501-492-4300.
If you are a charter school that WILL NOT need to pick up at the APSRC offices, either we or Ms. Baroni will contact you directly.
The Arkansas STEM Coalition will be delivering glasses to the PCSSD office and/or to individual schools between March 25-29. PCSSD’s Director of STEM and Blended Learning, Justin Luttrell, is the eclipse glasses coordinator and will manage how glasses will get from the district to each school. Dr. Luttrell’s email is jluttrell3264 (at) pcssd.org and his phone number is 501-234-2062.
The PCSSD main office will receive a separate bundle of glasses for staff not based in schools.
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