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Keynote Presentation: Equity-ology
Growing up in a single parent home on the south side of
Chicago, IL, Justin J. Shaifer had little awareness of the potential of a STEM
career. His worldview drastically transformed after experiences at Hampton
University. Justin graduated with a bachelor's degree in marine and
environmental science with the highest departmental GPA, and was also president
of Hampton University's student body while receiving scholarships from NASA and
NOAA that covered 100% of his tuition and room and board. Now 24 years old,
Justin travels the country empowering young students to "embrace their inner
nerd" despite their surroundings, and developing culturally responsive STEM
curricula for New York City institutions.
Justin is executive director of Fascinate, Inc., an
organization created to excite underrepresented students about STEM. He is known
for his work on the Magic Cool Bus Project. Past partners of his organization
include Microsoft, MIT Media Lab, and the Children’s Aid Society. Justin is
studying these programs’ effects as a PhD student at Columbia
University.
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Keynote Presentation:
U.S. Secretary of Education
Dr. Miguel A. Cardona Answers Your Questions
Don’t miss your opportunity to hear from U.S.
Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. Cardona as he shares a special message and
answers questions from science teachers.
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Keynote Presentation:
Education Through Minecraft
Bestselling author Max Brooks
believes in the power of educating through
entertainment, whether it’s learning survival skills through zombie
fiction or better
understanding our own history through graphic novels. What better
way to reach students than through mediums they have fun using, such as video games?
Join Max as he explains why he thinks the massively popular
game Minecraft has the potential to be the greatest
teaching tool since Gutenberg’s printing press.
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Keynote Presentation: Engaging
Students by Integrating
Culturally Relevant Instruction
Alejandro understands that students arrive each day
with an abundance of cultural wealth. He will share how
establishing authentic relationships with his students and strategically integrating culturally relevant
instruction has increased student motivation, morale, and engagement in his class.
He will also provide insight to some of the challenges that our students from underrepresented
populations face, and how providing his students access to a variety
of people, programs, resources, and experiential learning opportunities has
been critical to his students’ success.
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Keynote Presentation: Environmental
and Climate Justice
Education—From Grass Roots
to the Classroom
In this session participants will get an overview of
how environmental and climate justice have been introduced to classrooms through partnerships, expos, and educational
programming. Participants will also get an overview of key terms, focus
areas, and resources for learning more about environmental and
climate justice through a local lens.
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Keynote Panel: Psychosocial
Skills and Achievement:
A Two-Way Street
The objectives of this session are threefold: to
assist teachers in identifying students who need additional social and emotional
support; to highlight the dynamic between SEL and learning/achievement as
bi-directional, since SEL instruction and skill building have been shown to
improve achievement, but achievement or lack of it also impacts children’s sense
of well-being; and to highlight psychologically validated strategies designed to
prevent distress as well as enhance performance in the science classroom.
Teachers will learn about approaches they can use to help students manage
performance fears and encourage strategic risk-taking that fosters
creativity.
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Keynote Presentation:
You Would Be
a Great Teacher!
If a student in your class is amazing
at math, then
what job do you tell them they'd be good
at? Engineering, maybe? What if they have a natural aptitude for science, or they’re well-spoken
and love to debate? The best answer for these questions, and
every other issue we face in education, is simple:
You would be a great teacher!
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Keynote Presentation: Lessons from CDC
Studies of
COVID-19 in
Schools and Implications
for Science Education
School-based studies
of COVID-19 have provided valuable information about how
the virus spreads
and the activities and settings most associated with SARS-CoV-2
infection. Although some risks can be ameliorated with policy or environment change, behavior plays a
large role in risk of infection. Science teachers are well positioned
to address behavioral contributions and can impact behavior change
to mitigate the spread of COVID-1.
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Keynote Presentation:
The Challenge
of Creating Equity
in Science Education
Sponsoring Company: Shell
Science advocates
discuss the challenges
of creating equitable opportunities for teaching students in science education. We all know that it
is a challenge, but through this dialogue, implications and considerations will
be highlighted to provide participants ideas for overcoming this
challenge and successfully educating underrepresented students.
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Keynote Presentation:
The Multiplier
Mindset: Cultivating a
Culture of Success
Sponsoring Company: Shell
In this
session, we will discuss how the best leaders are
multipliers who make everyone around them smarter and promote their team’s success using this strategy.
The keynote will focus on how these strategies can be implemented
in the PK–20 systems to cultivate a culture of
success for our students and teachers.
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Keynote Presentation: Assessing How
We Test the NGSS
This presentation will focus on the
current state of science assessments around the country. Particular attention
will be given to the challenges for reimagining science assessments for the
Next Generation Science Standards.
Strategies will
be included for how to develop assessments that meet
the needs of classroom teachers, can measure student content knowledge on statewide summative tests, and
can scale at the levels required. Specific attention will be given
to addressing how assessments can be more culturally responsive
to a wider range of students.
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Keynote Presentation: Teaching to
Change the World: Using
Social Justice
Science Pedagogy to
Empower Every Learner
When you think of social justice
teaching, does science come to mind? Science involves the consistent and
systematic analysis of the world we live in. However, when
we think of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology we
rarely examine how
learning concepts in core disciplines can empower students to
explain the social phenomena that frame their lives. This presentation explores what social justice science
teaching looks like in science and how we can empower students
to see the value of science when we center
social science teaching in our practice.
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