Learn a design process for creating three-dimensional assessment tasks that support student learning. We will introduce participants to each phase of the process: unpacking dimensions, developing integrated dimension maps, articulating learning performances, identifying phenomena, and designing tasks.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn the steps of a systematic process for designing three-dimensional tasks that align with NGSS performance expectations, take into consideration students’ diverse backgrounds, and can be used in classrooms to provide information to teachers and students to improve learning.

SPEAKERS:
Joseph Krajcik (CREATE for STEM Institute, Michigan State University: East Lansing, MI), Christopher Harris (WestEd: Menlo Park, CA)

Diversity in STEM is crucial; however, we need to do more than just talk about it. In order to really create inclusive spaces, we must address the dark side of science which has led many groups to shy away from pursuing these fields. This harm can be repaired through restorative practices.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will understand the history of science in the United States. By acknowledging the systemic obstacles and barriers that certain underrepresented groups faced, we can implement restorative strategies to create inclusive science classrooms, such as: circles, conferences, and restorative questions.

SPEAKERS:
Dr. Josue Falaise (GOMO Educational Services)

This session will introduce teachers to a variety of note-booking techniques that will increase student engagement and excitement for learning. Students will take pride in their notebooks and therefore increase the level of effort they put into their work.

TAKEAWAYS:
This session will provide teachers and administrators with various strategies to differentiate learning for English Language Learners, Special Education Students, and General Education Students, and accurately assess student learning through note-booking by tracking student thinking/understanding.

SPEAKERS:
Karen Ziminski (EMK Academy for Health Careers: Boston, MA)

School leaders play an important role in the adoption of high quality instructional materials and can serve as catalysts for smart adoption processes. Participants will learn how to develop and use local priorities and instructional vision to drive the instructional materials adoption process.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn how to develop local priorities and establish an instructional vision, engage with EdReports reviews of instructional materials to make informed decisions based on local context, and leave with materials to support replicating this process with their local educators.

SPEAKERS:
John-Carlos Marino (Science Lead: Philadelphia, PA), Shannon Wachowski (EdReports.org: Lander, WY)

How do we prepare teachers to build a community of student learners and leaders? Science education is ideal for building student leaders as they investigate phenomena through questions and observations.

TAKEAWAYS:
We will explore and model best practices to promote inclusive student leadership in science.

SPEAKERS:
Sephali Thakkar (National Science Education Leadership Association (NSELA): Allen, TX), Beverly DeVore-Wedding (Nebraska Indian Community College: Meeker, CO)

Science coordinators from two public school districts in South Carolina will share how they are implementing a high-quality, open-education NGSS curriculum to support equitable three-dimensional science instruction for all students.

TAKEAWAYS:
We will share our implementation strategies, including how we recruited teachers as early adopters. Learn how we support teachers and students, partner with administrators and the community, manage materials, address challenges, and celebrate successes.

SPEAKERS:
Richard Phillips (Sumter School District: Sumter, SC), Holly Sullivan (Richland School District Two: Cassatt, SC)

In this presentation we’ll discuss how to bring makerspaces, STEAM, and genius hour to life in the classroom. An experienced STEAM educator will share her joyful journey creating and implementing a middle school STEAM class rooted in research on making, equity, and the genius hour practice.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn how to bring joy into teaching and learning through making, STEAM, and genius hour. Attendees will walk away with tools, tips, and tricks to support their own vision of joy in teaching and learning.

SPEAKERS:
Olivia Bello (75 Morton: New York, NY)

We will engage audience in experiencing strategies a group of middle-school science teachers used to customize OpenSciEd curriculum to better support students' equitable sensemaking by enhancing the curriculum's relevance. We will also share the challenges and lessons learned.

TAKEAWAYS:
Through this session, we hope that the attendees will walk away with a set of strategies they could use to enhance curriculum's relevance to students in future instruction, as well as the items they want to pay attention to during customization.

SPEAKERS:
Jason Buell (Postdoctoral researcher: evanston, IL), Brian Reiser (Learning Sciences, SESP, Northwestern University: Evanston, IL), Claire Hiller (Chute Middle School: Evanston, IL), Stephanie Baldwin (Haven Middle School: Skokie, IL), Kafi Chase (Chute Middle School: Evanston, IL), Yang Zhang (Northwestern University: Evanston, IL)

Science is a social endeavor! Gain strategies to transform your classroom into a community of learners in which students and teachers actively try to make sense of the natural and built worlds.

TAKEAWAYS:
Classroom norms help ensure equitable science learning

SPEAKERS:
Kate Soriano (NSTA: Jersey City, NJ)

Sponsoring Company: Activate Learning

Learn fun strategies for using informational texts to support your young learners’ sensemaking. Investigate supports with these texts that help students gather more information, use new vocabulary, and experience new ways of talking about their ideas about the world of science around them.

SPEAKERS:
Jen Gutierrez (Activate Learning: Greenwich, CT)

Sponsoring Company: Amplify Science

Through reflecting on our own personal ‘why’ for teaching science, we’ll consider how to spark a love of science for the next generation of solution seekers. Using exemplar activities and teacher moves, explore ways to celebrate student thinking, be responsive, and promote deep scientific thinking.

SPEAKERS:
Eric Cross (Albert Einstein Academy Middle School: SPRING VALLEY, CA)

In today’s fast-paced world, chronic stress is common, but your mind and body can pay a high price. Learn to recognize overwhelming stress—and what you can do about it. Most importantly, learn how to use the power of your senses to relieve stress on the spot and stay calm, productive, and focused.

TAKEAWAYS:
Tips on how to manage stress.

SPEAKERS:
Azra Chughtai (NSTA: McLean, VA)

Sponsoring Company: Great Minds

Come along as we undergo a rigorous student experience to work through a complex investigation. Throughout the course of the session, participants will discover the importance of fostering an environment that encourages challenge where students can struggle in a safe space.

SPEAKERS:
Madeline Cronk (Great Minds: Washington, DC)

Sponsoring Company: Amplify Science

How do we uncover and leverage the wealth of background knowledge and experiences students bring to science classrooms? Join UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science for strategies and examples of how student-centered experiences can spark curiosity, empower students, and lead to deeper learning.

SPEAKERS:
Jonathan Curley (The Lawrence Hall of Science: Berkeley, CA), Daniel Alcazar-Roman (University of California, Berkeley: Belmont, CA)

Sponsoring Company: Lab-Aids

Learn about the intentional design of our units to embed equitable opportunities in phenomenon-based learning. This hands-on workshop uses a model activity showing how students use data to develop an evidence-based argument supporting the best way to recover copper from a waste solution.

SPEAKERS:
Ed Miller (Selden Middle School: Centereach, NY)

Justice-centered science instruction is a critical process for building transformative, empowering classrooms. The TEECH Justice toolkit for K-12 educators provides resources and planning templates for creating community-driven, justice-centered science learning experiences for students.

TAKEAWAYS:
Classroom learning experiences that center local issues impacting students and their communities are more engaging and meaningful for students, especially for students traditionally underrepresented and underserved by science education.

SPEAKERS:
Stacy Meyer (Educational Service District 112: Vancouver, WA)

This session introduces art, music, reading, writing, and drama ideas to be woven through your lessons on climate change. I have multiple examples of climate-related projects that have been used successfully with students to educate and empower. Dare I say that teaching climate change can be fun?!

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers learn how to enrich their teaching and inspire their students by incorporating The Arts into their climate lessons. In addition, The Arts can provide creative and fun project-based learning that has the potential to communicate climate science effectively to the greater population.

SPEAKERS:
Kottie Christie-Blick (University of San Diego: Tappan, NY)

Embark on an AI-powered journey with Chat-GPT to grow your teacher toolbox! Join us to discover how Chat-GPT can offer options for differentiation and equity within your science classroom!

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will observe and synthesize differentiated activities to better address performance expectations using ChatGPT, such as finding animations for abstract concepts, tiered reading materials, supports for ESL students, culture integration in lessons, and enrichment opportunities.

SPEAKERS:
Andrew Kipp (Texas A&M: McAllen, TX)

Promoting reading and writing while learning science? Utilize proven literacy strategies to enhance your students’ science knowledge and science literacy for the 21st (STEM) century.

TAKEAWAYS:
Enhancing student learning in science utilizing literacy strategies.

SPEAKERS:
Beverly DeVore-Wedding (Nebraska Indian Community College: Meeker, CO)

Learn how student interest & identity are co-equal dimensions with disciplinary core ideas, science & engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts when designing phenomenon-driven assessments. Participants will learn how to use tools to elicit information about students for use in design.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators engage with the 5D Assessment Project's tools to elicit and use information about students' interests and identities to design meaningful, phenomenon-driven assessment opportunities. Work with examples of meaningful assessment aligned to the elements of the NGSS.

SPEAKERS:
Sara Cooper (Contextus: Lincoln, NE), Kevin Cherbow (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Abraham Lo (BSCS Science Learning: Ambler, PA)

Once upon a time, there were dedicated teachers who wanted nothing more than classrooms full of happy, engaged, and inspired students. Alas, our heroes must face many dastardly obstacles including boring curriculum! This session will provide storytelling tips to help turn duds into happy endings...

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will leave with compelling explanations/research behind the effectiveness of storytelling as an instructional tool as well as several examples of story integration into various STEM activities.

SPEAKERS:
Elaine Wu (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy: Aurora, IL)

Join the US Patent & Trademark Office with activities from the free online invention education platform EquIP HQ, Patent Sensei, and Patent Quest. Gain a conceptual understanding of some of the steps needed to take during the patent process including developing skills to help perform a patent search.

TAKEAWAYS:
All students have the power to invent. The USPTO is committed to providing free resources to help K-12 students realize their potential as inventors. Unlocking young inventors' potential, EquIP HQ introduces students to the patent process, igniting creativity and innovation in the classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Juan Valentin (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Laurel, MD)

Take a deep dive into the practice of developing and using models! We’ll explore how creating and using models help students build science ideas and can support students’ in developing and writing explanations. Experience the power of building science ideas together as part of a learning community.

TAKEAWAYS:
Developing models individually, in groups and as a class makes all students essential members of the knowledge-building community.

SPEAKERS:
Kristin Rademaker (NSTA: Freeport, IL), Patrice Scinta (NSTA: Brooklyn, NY)

Sponsoring Company: Activate Learning

Learn how to enhance students’ overall communication in and out of the science classroom throughout their learning. Delve deeper into topics that include listening using classroom norms, strategies that help students with short response, and how to enhance students’ use of CER!

SPEAKERS:
Brian Klaft (Activate Learning: Greenwich, CT)

Sponsoring Company: Lab-Aids

Learning sequences to drive phenomena through a unit is one way to help students understand the content. In this model activity from our Lab-Aids program: Science and Global Issues: Biology, developed by SEPUP, you will use data to investigate how abiotic factors and species diversity are related.

SPEAKERS:
Donna Parker (Dublin Coffman High School: Dublin, OH)

In this session, Colorado District Science Leaders are invited to attend our March meeting. During this time, we will network and share ideas regarding the implementation of three dimensional learning in your school, site, and/or district.

TAKEAWAYS:
In this session, Colorado District Science Leaders are invited to attend our March meeting. During this time, we will network and share ideas regarding the implementation of three dimensional learning in your school, site, and/or district.

SPEAKERS:
Samantha Agoos (Colorado Department of Education: La Veta, CO)

Seeking support in what to look for and how to provide feedback to best support teachers? We will share an observation tool, model a pre & post observation conversation, examine a range of coaching interventions, and consider action steps based on patterns that are observed in science classrooms.

TAKEAWAYS:
Leaders and coaches play an important role in supporting teachers as they shift to more student centered instruction. Participants will be provided with an observation tool and coaching interventions that promote trust and increase reflective practice to meet the needs of students and teachers.

SPEAKERS:
Renee Affolter (OpenSciEd: Montpelier, VT), Grace Lugo (Boston College OEI: Wellesley, MA)

During this talk Jason will explain what Science Ninjas is, why CLEAPSS and King’s College, London (University of London) decided to undertake this research and what it’s taught he, and his colleagues, about supporting elementary and middle school teachers to plan effective active learning lessons.

TAKEAWAYS:
This presentation provides educational professionals and coaches with insights into the effective practices and ways of working that we have developed to support elementary and middle school science leaders to promote hands-on learning across their schools.

SPEAKERS:
Jason Harding (CLEAPSS / Kings College London: Crstal Beach, TX)

Transform your assessment tool into a powerful instrument for enhancing learning. Designed for educators from K-16, with an aim to streamline the grading process, make rubrics strengths-based, differentiable across all levels, and centered on developing transferable skills. Bring your own rubric!

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will leave with their own revised rubric that not only simplifies grading but also fosters student engagement and achievement. They will discover ways to provide constructive, actionable feedback that drives improvement and facilitates student growth.

SPEAKERS:
Elise Naramore (Pascack Hills High School: Saddle River, NJ)

You have a coherent phenomenon-based learning plan for your students, and midway through, you get sick, or have jury duty-- now what?!? This session will highlight approaches to substitute plans that are flexible, easy to implement, and support student learning.

TAKEAWAYS:
When students are tasked with sensemaking and figuring out, day in and day out, it is easier to have that happen without the teacher present. Utilizing a quality curriculum that supports student coherence and phenomenon-based learning is the best tool to make that a reality.

SPEAKERS:
Sarah Delaney (OpenSciEd: San Carlos, CA)

We will discuss the work of the Second National Conference for Justice in Geoscience and explore how diversifying and working towards justice in geoscience fits in our classrooms. Presented by a middle school science teacher on the writing team working on plans to continue this conference work.

TAKEAWAYS:
You will learn about the current work of the Second National Conference: Justice in Geoscience. Then, in community, we will critically examine and reflect on topics such as environmental justice, how to learn from students about justice in geoscience, and how this fits in our educational contexts.

SPEAKERS:
Allyson Randall (East Valley Middle School: Boise, ID)

Discover how to promote equity and diversity in STEM classrooms through holistic assessment. Gain insights into fostering inclusivity, addressing bias, and ensuring fair evaluation practices. Leave with practical tools and strategies to create an inclusive learning environment for all students.

TAKEAWAYS:
Unlock the joy of learning while promoting equity & diversity in STEM! Holistic assessment fosters inclusivity, tackles bias, & ensures fair evaluation. Let's create an exciting, inclusive environment where all students thrive in STEM!

SPEAKERS:
Augustine Owusu Achiaw (Graduate Assistant: Clemson, SC), Stephanie Tracey (Graduate Student: Clemson, SC)

What is the connection between coherent instructional sequences from the students’ perspective and equitable access to science learning? Learn how coherent storyline units support students’ genuine engagement and perseverance as they work to explain a complex phenomenon over the course of a unit.

TAKEAWAYS:
Storyline unit Instructional routines provide a coherent path from students’ questions about a phenomenon to the explanation or model of that phenomenon.

SPEAKERS:
NSTA Online Advisors (NSTA: Arlington, VA), Holly Hereau (NSTA: Lake Angelus, MI), Patrice Scinta (NSTA: Brooklyn, NY)

Sponsoring Company: Savvas Learning Company

Why can't you walk through walls? This complex question spans biology, chemistry, physics, and involves strange quantum phenomena. Explore the answer and discover how to incorporate recent scientific innovations into your classroom through compelling storylines.

SPEAKERS:
Christopher Moore (University of Nebraska Omaha: Omaha, NE)

Building a science community in your classroom. Strategies and resources for increasing engagement in doing and talking about science.

TAKEAWAYS:
This resource will help you build a positive science community, structure and manage your class, engage students in science, help students talk about science, and understand what students know so you can use that information to plan and move them forward.

SPEAKERS:
Laura Shafer, PhD (Knowles Teacher Initiative: Davis, CA)

We will share the development of the Word Wall in our Science Classrooms and how they became interactive and informative to all of our Students.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will walk away with an idea to support the use of scientific vocabulary for a diverse classroom of learners.

SPEAKERS:
Dawn Konieczny (Brooks Middle School: Bolingbrook, IL), Kim Nagle (Brooks Middle School: Manhattan, IL)

We are middle school teachers at a title one school with the highest number of grade 6-8 L25 students of the 125 schools in our district. This session will focus on the strategies that we use daily to ensure we are teaching with rigor in a way that all students can learn!

TAKEAWAYS:
"Every student, every question, every time" is our school philosophy. We will share our tried-and-true strategies for distributed summarizing and effective questioning.

SPEAKERS:
Dave McGinley (Teacher: Lehigh Acres, FL), Barbara Rebeor (Harns Marsh Middle School: Ft Myers, FL)

Learn how to help your students build upon their unique identity and funds of knowledge using a hands on STEM project. This session will provide participants a free unit that incorporates both engineering design and computational thinking patterns for students to share their identity in class!

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will work through a full engineering design process to show their identity by constructing a lantern and coding a light show for the project. Can be utilized with a variety of technology and maker platforms. Includes access to all materials needed to implement in class tomorrow!

SPEAKERS:
Erin Brabant (STEM Lab: Westminster, CO), Jessica Noffsinger (STEM Magnet Lab School: Westminster, CO)

NextGen TIME is a free suite of tools and processes that supports districts in preparing to evaluate instructional materials for quality and design for the NGSS. This collaborative process helps you plan for next steps, including customization to improve student outcomes and effective implementation.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how NextGen TIME supports the evaluation of current instructional materials to strengthen their design for NGSS, and how NextGen TIME tools and processes can serve as critical components of curriculum-based professional learning. You’ll walk away with free access to NextGen TIME resources.

SPEAKERS:
Susan Gomez Zwiep (BSCS Science Learning: Long Beach, CA), Jenine Cotton-Proby (BSCS Science Learning: Waldorf, MD)

Sponsoring Company: Penda Learning

Penda is a high-quality, gamified intervention and instructional resource that is phenomena-based and 3-D with tools for differentiation and is engaging for all students. Customizable reports and assessments assist with progress monitoring. Penda is handcrafted for NGSS, Texas TEKS and FL SASS.

SPEAKERS:
Mindy Pearson (Penda Learning: Ruskin, FL), Taylor Willis (Penda Learning: Tampa, FL), Kathryn Kypreos (Penda Learning: Savannah, GA)

Discover the recent research on females in STEM and learn how to take intentionally small, but powerful steps in your classroom to ensure that our future female problem-solvers have the confidence, encouragement, and motivation to change the world, one STEM field at a time!

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will discover the current reseach regarding girls in STEM, hear from female scientists from the Van Andel Institute, and leave with four powerful ways to increase female student interest, motivation, and confidence in these fields.

SPEAKERS:
Dawn McCotter (Van Andel Institute for Education: Grand Rapids, MI)

Deep dive into phenomenon-based learning! In this immersive workshop, participants will experience phenomena, collaborate with other educators, and develop a toolkit of ways to captivate students’ curiosity. Instructors will model examples and offer time to connect around ways to elevate engagement.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will walk away with an understanding of how phenomena can drive high-quality instruction, and a real-time toolkit of resources to support them moving forward. Using the Next Generation Science Standards framework, teachers will collaborate around student engagement in a meaningful and authentic way.

SPEAKERS:
Pam McWilliams (Science Partner for Curriculum and Instruction: Aurora, CO), Rebecca Rolater (pK-12 District Science Coordinator: Aurora, CO)

Learn about and apply tools from a federally-funded professional development program around translanguaging. These tools will allow you to plan lessons that leverage emergent bilinguals' multilingualism and lived experiences as they analyze and interpret data and scientific texts.

TAKEAWAYS:
Translanguaging recognizes, values, and leverages emergent bilinguals full communicative repertoire. Science teachers can use strategic translanguaging moves to strengthen how science practices, such as analyzing and interpreting data, better foster biliteracy development.

SPEAKERS:
Edward Lyon (Sonoma State University: Santa Rosa, CA)

Teachers engage in classroom discourse strategies designed to support developing science classroom communities that promote more equitable student contributions.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participating in purposeful classroom discourse strategies during teacher professional learning experiences results in more equitable science classroom community building.

SPEAKERS:
Stephanie Brushway (Denver Public Schools: Denver, CO)

ASTA shares a professional learning model that promotes curriculum development and supports classroom implementation, both critical components in transforming science education. Using carefully designed steps, teachers craft cohesive units with performance tasks that incorporate the 3 dimensions.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will gain an understanding of the challenges and successes of this multi-year, intensive professional learning program for constructing three-dimensional K-12 units and share ideas on how this process might be adapted to one’s own local context to support the educators they serve.

SPEAKERS:
April Holton (Arizona State University: Peoria, AZ), Adrian Alvarez (Grand Canyon Public Schools: Williams, AZ), Sara Torres (Arizona Science Teachers Association: Tucson, AZ)

Join PhET’s initiative to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in STEM education by increasing your familiarity with our resources, and considering how simulations + activities + facilitation can be used to increase representation, relevance, and accessibility.

TAKEAWAYS:
Use the PhET Equity Framework to explore aspects of PhET simulations and sim-based resources that can help all students learn, such as inclusive sim features, translations, diversified character sets, and equity-aligned rubrics to select and modify teacher-contributed activities.

SPEAKERS:
Katherine Perkins (PhET Interactive Simulations, University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO), Briana Clarke (Park Day School: Oakland, CA), Rebecca Vieyra (PhET Interactive Simulations, University of Colorado Boulder: Washington, DC)

How do we get more students to see their ideas as important and valuable? How do we get more students to be willing to share and build on others’ ideas? We will explore strategies and examples for adapting curriculum to help elevate student voice and perspective for more equitable sensemaking.

TAKEAWAYS:
Encouraging student voice and perspective can reposition students as knowledge makers and support their science identity and motivation. We will share strategies and classroom examples for promoting student voice as well as a way to think about adapting curriculum to support equitable sensemaking.

SPEAKERS:
Katherine McNeill (Boston College: Newtonville, MA), Renee Affolter (OpenSciEd: Montpelier, VT)

Diversity is more than skin deep. It's part of who we are and who our students are. In this session, you will learn how your students differ on many levels and how you can tailor your lessons to better match their needs. Learn different strategies and practice modifying lessons!

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn strategies to diversify their lessons.

SPEAKERS:
Megan Hodge (Mississippi Department of Education: Poplarville, MS), Kristin Ambrose (Walhalla High School: Seneca, SC)

Using phenomena in your classroom is a crucial way to drive instruction. However, many times phenomena are not localized and therefore do not relate to student interest. In this session, learn about different ways to use local phenomena to increase engagement in the classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
A list of possible local phenomena to use in your classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Autumn Rivera (Glenwood Springs Middle School: Glenwood Springs, CO)

Grading that supports student sensemaking doesn't have to keep you at school all night. Learn approaches to grading that prioritize 3D sensemaking and utilize technology, collaboration, and existing resources so you have can your evenings back.

TAKEAWAYS:
The process of giving feedback and assigning grades is easier when there are strong materials and assessments to build from, and technology can help make it faster without decreasing effectiveness for students.

SPEAKERS:
Sarah Delaney (OpenSciEd: San Carlos, CA)

Do you want all your students to feel like they belong and to see themselves in your classroom? Learn how to use the NSF-funded DoS classroom observation and feedback system, which incorporates student voice, reflection, and equitable access to build productive science classroom communities.

TAKEAWAYS:
You will learn strategies to promote belonging for all students in your MS science classroom, through applying the evidence-based DoS observation framework to real classroom scenarios and having small group conversations about your peers’ experiences building inclusive and reflective classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
Victoria Oliveira (Researcher: Belmont, MA), Virginia Andrews (Institute for the Study of Resilience in Youth)

Learn to flip student uncertainty to rev up student motivation to understand concepts! SUPeR stands for Student Uncertainty as a Pedogogical Resource. The approach was developed by Drs. Ying-Chih Chen and Michelle Jordan at ASU. Learn tips and tricks for student uncertainty to drive your class!

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will understand when to maintain, raise, and lower student uncertainty to keep curiousity driving their classroom. Teachers will learn sensemaking strategies and ways to assess uncertainty in their classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Jamie Rapkiewcz (Mesa Public Schools: Mesa, AZ), Mandy Heal (Mesa Public Schools: Mesa, AZ)

Reading proficiency is tied to academic success. Teaching various reading and testing strategies while using high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) and innovative technology can help students overcome their challenges with comprehension and vocabulary acquisition.

TAKEAWAYS:
How to use reading strategies coupled with technology to help all students develop ways to navigate grade-level, challenging text. How creating a classroom culture can cultivate an environment conducive for welcoming and increasing literacy in the classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Leslie White-Keuchler (The School District of Philadelphia: Philadelphia, PA)

Do you or the educators you work with have questions about what science teaching and learning look like in classrooms implementing your state standards? Join us for a session where you will receive support to lead this module using classroom video of contemporary research-based teaching in action.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will build an understanding of sensemaking and receive a toolkit to lead this session with other educators.

SPEAKERS:
Emily Mathews (NSTA: Skokie, IL), Patrice Scinta (NSTA: Brooklyn, NY)

Attendees will employ engineering drawing techniques to draw a cube isometrically and extend that new skill to draw a cube puzzle built during the workshop using orthographic projections. This exercise will be used to illustrate equity building opportunities within classrooms.

TAKEAWAYS:
Drawing isometrically allows us to create a different 2d representation of a cube where all sides are measurably equal, employing a model that better represents our actual lived experience and understanding of geometric shapes and strengthens spatial reasoning skills.

SPEAKERS:
Cheryl LG Riedel (Lester J Gates, Scituate Public Schools: Sicutate, MA)

Curriculum implementation requires significant planning so that systems support the needed shifts in practice to strengthen science teaching and learning. Join us to figure out how leading change–an important element of curriculum-based professional learning–can make a difference.

TAKEAWAYS:
Leaders can create a culture that is conducive to the significant changes in knowledge, beliefs, and practices required to support the implementation of high-quality instructional materials designed for next generation science.

SPEAKERS:
Janna Mahfoud (BSCS Science Learning: Laveen, AZ), Jenine Cotton-Proby (BSCS Science Learning: Waldorf, MD), Jody Bintz (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO)

Science, you either love it or hate it! Come learn how to build your students' science identity throughout the year in tandem with the science and engineering practices, so your students see themselves as scientists in your classroom and beyond.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn how to continually build science identity within their classrooms throughout the year.

SPEAKERS:
Whitney McCormick (Alliance College Ready Public Schools: Los Angeles, CA), Sheena Velasquez (Alliance College-Ready Public Schools: Pasadena, CA)

What are some simple ways to better engage your students in science learning? How can you get your students to work with you, rather than against you? In this hands-on presentation, we will demonstrate numerous strategies you can use to improve student decision-making and collaboration.

TAKEAWAYS:
Exploring principles for student decision-making through engaging in meaningful science activities.

SPEAKERS:
Ramy Mahmoud (Savvas Learning Co.: Paramus, NJ), Jesse Wilcox (University of Northern Iowa: Cedar Falls, IA)

QFT helps students formulate questions in order to make sense of a novel phenomenon. Creating opportunities for collaborative learning through student questioning instills a sense of ownership and builds authentic connections with the content. Connections to SEPs and CCCs will be explored.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn how to implement QFT at any grade level. Examples of various methods to use QFT will be modeled. Ties to SEPs and CCCs will be discussed. In addition, participants will be given resources they can use in their classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
Lynn DiAndrea (Farmingdale School District: Farmingdale, NY), Dr. Kristen Cummings (Farmingdale Union Free School District: Farmingdale, NY)

Designing and implementing meaningful sustainability-focused learning involves all stake-holders in a community. Join CSSS members as they share their use of the Building Awareness for Sustainability Education (BASE) framework to advance equitable sustainability education in their communities'.

TAKEAWAYS:
Decisions about advancing sustainability education in a region should be made at the local level and include all local stake-holders.

SPEAKERS:
Carol ODonnell (Smithsonian Institution: Washington, DC), Lori Henrickson (Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction: Olympia, WA), Deb Morrison (University of Washington: Salt Spring Island, BC)

Building Self-Regulation Learning into the classroom creates high levels of learning for all students. Learn how to walk student through identifying what they need to learn, set a goal to address learning, choose activities, evaluate their learning, and redesign to learn deeply.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will learn to use Self-Regulation Learning (SRL) to create a personalized classroom that challenges all students at deep levels. Learn to guide students' learning and encourage them to learn content and skills of learning at deep levels.

SPEAKERS:
Katherine Willet (Williamsburg Middle School: Annandale, VA)

This poster will share how science museums and informal spaces can address epistemic injustice by considering the narratives these spaces create about science, and how this can disenfranchise (or engage) groups who are often already marginalized from knowledge production.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn about epistemic injustice, or the exclusion and marginalization of groups from knowledge production, and the ways in which we highlight contributions to science. We’ll share examples from a qualitative research project of a science history museum.

SPEAKERS:
Debi Hanuscin (Western Washington University: Bellingham, WA), Ariela Ikezawa (Various: Bellevue, WA)

How do we teach Tier 3 science vocabulary to students with limited English (or no English) and encourage success? We will share multiple strategies for teaching Tier 3 Academic Science vocabulary, as well as modalities that incorporate visual aids, manipulatives, and kinesthetic activities to engage

TAKEAWAYS:
1. Tier 3 strategies for teaching science. 2. The inclusion of visual and kinesthetic activities to engage ALL students. 3. Forms of assessment for ALL levels of English Language Learners.

SPEAKERS:
Darren Wells (Mather Elementary School: Dorchester, MA), Karen Ziminski (EMK Academy for Health Careers: Boston, MA)

In today's tech-driven world, with abundant information and limited planning time, achieving both content-rich and inclusive lessons can lead to "analysis paralysis." Break free from overwhelm with our practical tool for evaluating resources. Join us!

TAKEAWAYS:
By the end of this lesson, educators will be able to apply effective strategies to critically evaluate a range of resources, thus enhancing the overall sense of inclusivity and belonging within their classroom communities.

SPEAKERS:
Jailyn Jenkins (Manager of Resident Development, Innovation, Coaching: Denver, CO)

DQBs are an inquiry tool that can be used to address multiple SEPs. We will demonstrate how students can use CCCs as a lens to process and think about data and information, model how to make a DQB for a classroom and learn strategies to utilize the DQB to keep students focused on learning goals.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will create a DQB and discover its applications in project-based and inquiry-based learning. Strategies for making the DQB a dynamic part of each lesson will be demonstrated. DQBs allow students to be intrinsically motivated and take ownership in their own learning.

SPEAKERS:
Lynn DiAndrea (Farmingdale School District: Farmingdale, NY), Dr. Kristen Cummings (Farmingdale Union Free School District: Farmingdale, NY)

Participants will engage in student equity tips & activities as they work to complete a STEM build. Everyone will leave with materials, resources, & useful inclusion practices in this STEM engineering challenge. Teamwork will be used to create the task & classroom adaptations will be explored.

TAKEAWAYS:
STEM education is easy, fun, & accessible. Your students & colleagues will benefit from these engaging activities regardless of your professional track. NM MESA educators are specialists when working with rural & underserved communities; join us and you’ll take away build kits, resources, & ideas!

SPEAKERS:
Terry Ramirez (NM MESA: El Paso, TX), Kim Scheerer (NM MESA: Albuquerque, NM)

Science can be challenging for multilingual learners because it is heavy with tier two and three vocabulary. Educators may be challenged by the needs of those at the entering or beginning level of proficiency. Comprehensible input makes content and concepts visible, thereby improving accessibility.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn several strategies that make content visible and therefore more accessible to multilingual learners. Comprehensible input strategies include explicit vocabulary and pictorial compacting. Comprehensible output strategies include student-generated realia and thinking maps.

SPEAKERS:
Christopher Schell (Clarke Middle School: Athens, GA), Nathalie Guerin (Clarke MIddle School: Athens, GA)

Sponsoring Company: NOAA

Explore a new resource that you educators and students can use to assess environmental injustices in their neighborhoods and school communities. This tool features a community inventory, indicators of environmental justice, and stewardship-based solutions.

SPEAKERS:
Symone Barkley (NOAA National Ocean Service: Silver Spring, MD), Bruce Moravchik (NOAA National Ocean Service: Rockville, MD)

The SIOP Model is an effective research-based instructional model for meeting the academic needs of English language learners. Learn how to use it to support ELLs in your science classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
1.) The eight components to the SIOP model will be explained; 2.) Examples of actual and effective classroom implementation of the SIOP model; and 3.) Consideration for not only teaching science content, but doing so in a culturally-conscious manner will also be shared.

SPEAKERS:
Nadene Klein (Daniel C. Oakes High School: Elizabeth, CO)

Modeling is a sensemaking tool that can help students process information and make connections to the real world. Participants will be active learners to explore methods on creating, evaluating, and revising models for validity. Different ways in which modeling can be utilized will be presented.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn how modeling encourages student collaboration and provides opportunities for peer feedback. Techniques for evaluating and revising models will be demonstrated. Examples of how modeling can be a gateway to using additional SEPs throughout a unit will be discussed.

SPEAKERS:
Lynn DiAndrea (Farmingdale School District: Farmingdale, NY), Dr. Kristen Cummings (Farmingdale Union Free School District: Farmingdale, NY)

Denver Public Schools science instructional specialists share how they co-designed professional learning opportunities for K-12 Science educators to engage students with pedagogical practices described in the books Ambitious Science Teaching and Science in the City.

TAKEAWAYS:
Ongoing professional learning designed to support targeted science reform ideas related to more equitable classroom science experiences promote shifts in educator practice.

SPEAKERS:
Eva Bridgeforth (Denver Public Schools: Denver, CO), Melissa Braaten (Associate Professor: Denver, CO), Keyerria Howard (Middle. School Curriculum Specialist: Denver, CO)

Incorporate the three dimensions of the NGSS to guide your students through project-based learning opportunities (PBL) addressing local/regional issues and topics. Strategies for designing PBLs to engage students, integrate phenomena and content, and solve real-world problems will be shared.

TAKEAWAYS:
PBLs provide all students opportunities to utilize the three dimensions of NGSS to enhance their learning and apply that knowledge to address and propose solutions to issues of concern.

SPEAKERS:
Beverly DeVore-Wedding (Nebraska Indian Community College: Meeker, CO)

Come learn more about underlying barriers and current trends in youth outdoor participation. Building life-long relationships with the outdoors benefits students and their communities. Explore strategies and resources to create more just and equitable outdoor student learning opportunities.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will explore strategies and resources to increase outdoor student engagement and participation for more inclusive and equitable science learning.

SPEAKERS:
Lizette Navarrete-Burks (University of Houston-Downtown: Houston, TX)

Participants will explore concrete strategies for cultivating a safe classroom environment for collective sensemaking and in-depth learning that supports all students, particularly diverse and emergent multilingual learners.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn about 3 strategies for enacting an asset-based approach to science teaching, and walk away with tools and resources they can leverage in their own instructional planning.

SPEAKERS:
Claire Hiller (Chute Middle School: Evanston, IL), Alissa Berg (Evanston Skokie School District 65: Chicago, IL)

Curriculum implementation provides an opportunity to uncover and confront persistent inequities in educational systems. Engage with us in an equity simulation to consider how policies and practices related to science curriculum implementation can either support or hinder equity goals.

TAKEAWAYS:
Barriers to equity are not in learners, but rather in environments. When seeking to reach “all”, historical and current policies and practices need to be examined. Educational policies and practices that are seemingly neutral can contribute to persistent inequities for marginalized student groups.

SPEAKERS:
Susan Gomez Zwiep (BSCS Science Learning: Long Beach, CA), Janna Mahfoud (BSCS Science Learning: Laveen, AZ)

TNTP’s equity-based STEM Good to Great model is a learning-by-doing experience that couples a culturally responsive framework with job-embedded development to make STEM thinking an integral part of the classroom. Hear from TNTP and our partner school on the program's impact on teaching and learning.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn how to lay the foundation for a sustainable and meaningful STEM culture through an equity-driven professional development and robust coaching model that honors four key resources crucial to improving student outcomes across K-12 classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
Amanda McCue (Senior Manager STEM: Eustace, TX), Camryn Lochner (Teacher: No City, No State), Nithya Vasudevan (TNTP: Oakland, CA)

Engaging students in phenomenon-based 3D science learning is challenging, and when students are absent it can feel impossible. In this session, participants will take away strategies for supporting absent students in staying engaged in learning when they miss classroom instruction.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will take away strategies for supporting absent students in staying engaged in learning when they miss classroom instruction.

SPEAKERS:
Sarah Delaney (OpenSciEd: San Carlos, CA)

While it may seem like there’s nothing you can do about stress at work and home, there are steps you can take to relieve the pressure and regain control. Stress wreaks havoc on your emotional equilibrium, as well as your physical health. It narrows your ability to think clearly and function effectively.

TAKEAWAYS:
Tips on how to relieve pressure and regain control.

SPEAKERS:
Azra Chughtai (NSTA: McLean, VA)

Look across the Essentials of curriculum-based professional learning to figure out how leaders use them together to support teachers in making the shifts called for in NRC’s Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards.

TAKEAWAYS:
By attending to the Essentials of curriculum-based professional learning, leaders take a systems approach to supporting teachers in the instructional shifts called for by NRC’s Framework. These shifts promote three-dimensional phenomena/problem-driven science teaching and learning.

SPEAKERS:
Nancy Hopkins-Evans (BSCS Science Learning: Wayne, PA), Susan Gomez Zwiep (BSCS Science Learning: Long Beach, CA)

Participate in activities using news to connect with students. Attendees engage with digital materials that promote environment awareness and civic knowledge preparing students to be engaged citizens. These free materials focus on media literacy, primary source analysis, and civic awareness.

TAKEAWAYS:
Leave with new digital tools and strategies to build student’s confidence and skills. Empower students to be involved citizens if they are passionate about a topic and know who can help them affect change.

SPEAKERS:
Victoria Pasquantonio (PBS NewsHour: Alexandria, VA), Elizabeth Osborn (Indiana University Bloomington: Bloomington, IN)

3D performance assessments, in concert with Ambitious Teaching Principles, can engage students in working with their ideas to advance their thinking. We will share assessment artifacts and analytic and reflective routines that can be introduced into PLCs to develop asset-based assessment practices.

TAKEAWAYS:
Artifacts from the implementation of 3D performance assessments can offer rich insights into students’ ideas, and ambitious teaching principles can serve as powerful tools for leveraging students’ assets and advancing their 3D thinking.

SPEAKERS:
Jill Wertheim (WestEd: Takoma Park, MD)

Reflections of a book study of Leadership for Increasingly Diverse Schools. Presentation is about how the book study is focused on race, poverty, disabilities, LGBTQ, gender, multilingual learners, religion, family, and community advocacy.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will be given an equity audit tool to use in their district to see where there may be areas of inequities to focus on. Users of the tool can create action steps to increase a more diverse school community. Attendees will be given resources and strategies to help support them.

SPEAKERS:
Tonyea Mead (Science Education Associate: Lewes, DE)

Members of NSTA’s Urban Advisory Panel share ideas about leveraging community partnerships to obtain resources, curriculum, and learning activities.

TAKEAWAYS:
Simple, easy, and inexpensive methods for urban teachers to create an NGSS-aligned science curriculum or lesson, even in a district without extra resources or outdoor space. We can help you partner with local museums, universities, historical societies, and other community sources.

SPEAKERS:
Wendy Jackson (The Lawrence Hall of Science: Skokie, IL), Latanya Brandon (SUNY New Paltz: New Paltz, NY), Adrine Williams (Jackson State University: Jackson, MS), Rebecca Kurson (Collegiate School: New York, NY), Selene Verhofstad (Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship: Pasadena, TX), Brad Rhew (Guilford County Schools: High Point, NC)

Preparing and supporting teacher candidates with coherent and engaging learning experiences requires the collaborative efforts of different sectors of the education system. We will discuss the strategies and resources developed and implemented to ensure K-5 science teachers are classroom-ready.

TAKEAWAYS:
Gain concrete strategies and resources to consider a similar collaborative process within your regional and local context.

SPEAKERS:
Tana Luther (Louisiana Dept. of Education: Baton Rouge, LA), Susan Gomez Zwiep (BSCS Science Learning: Long Beach, CA), Nancy Hopkins-Evans (BSCS Science Learning: Wayne, PA)

This session provides K-12 Colorado educators information about the Science Standards Review and Revision process beginning in the Spring of 2025 and concluding in June 2026. In addition to the background on the five stages of the process, educators will learn how they can apply to participate.

TAKEAWAYS:
By the end of this session, participants will describe the five main stages of the Standards Review and Revision process and identify opportunities for educators to participate in the process.

SPEAKERS:
Samantha Agoos (Colorado Department of Education: La Veta, CO)

This session will provide science teachers with resources on how to integrate AI tools into their curriculum for personalized and differentiated instruction, including assessing students' progress and adapting lessons to meet diverse learning needs.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn to use AI for personalized instruction, assess student progress, and efficiently adapt lessons for diverse learning needs.

SPEAKERS:
Tamu Crisden (Master Teacher: Virginia Beach, VA), Demetrice Smith-Mutegi (Old Dominion University: Suffolk, VA)

Sponsoring Company: Knowles Teacher Initiative

Equalize learning experiences for all students during group work by improving collaboration and increasing participation. Consider the areas of complex instruction, actionable norms, curriculum, and student status in the designing and implementation of science group tasks.

SPEAKERS:
Takumi Sato, PhD (Knowles Teacher Initiative: Moorestown, NJ), Laura Shafer, PhD (Knowles Teacher Initiative: Davis, CA), Rosiane Lesperance, PhD (Knowles Teacher Initiative)

Sponsoring Company: Stile Education

Join our heroic mission to revolutionize grading! Discover how standards-based grading can empower and accurately assess students, turning challenges into triumphs of learning.

SPEAKERS:
Mel Horton (Oregon Science Education Lead: Portland, OR)

Participants will learn about the K-12 Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge teacher competition, and the two Shell USA, Inc. sponsored teacher awards. Participants will learn how to nominate and apply for the programs that are sponsored by Shell USA, Inc.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn how to nominate and apply for the programs that are sponsored by Shell USA, Inc. Participants will be able to collaborate with previous winners and judges on key elements to include in a strong application.

SPEAKERS:
Amanda Upton (NSTA: Fresno, TX)

Who do students picture when they picture people in STEM careers? Do they picture themselves? Representation matters in engaging all learners in science. Attendees will explore and receive free Natural Inquirer products that introduce students to diverse people and fields in the Forest Service.

TAKEAWAYS:
Natural Inquirer products, created in partnership with the USDA Forest Service, help educators demonstrate that science is a human endeavor. Educators will be able to show their students that scientists are people from all cultures and backgrounds. Attendees will receive copies of all materials.

SPEAKERS:
Bradi McDonald (Natural Inquirer), Nissa McKinney (FIND Outdoors/Forest Service Cooperator: Athens, GA)

Curious as to what DEI is and how to include it in the classroom? Want to help your students feel supported and included? DEI in the science classroom is about using scientifically accurate and inclusive language to support all of our students in the classroom and in life.

TAKEAWAYS:
Using inclusive and scientifically accurate language will help support all students in the classroom to not only learn but to learn in a safe and supportive environment.

SPEAKERS:
Joanne McGuire (27J: Brighton, CO)

This session is for all educators hoping to get their foot in the door for incorporating equity into the classroom through a scientific lens. This a chance to engage in discourse with other educators around overcoming barriers and preparing a ready-to-implement lesson for when they return home!

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators will learn how to engage with and educate around the historic weaponization of science. They will be able to build a lesson around this topic and create a dialogue geared toward middle school aged scholars.

SPEAKERS:
Andi Twiss (New Millennium Academy: Minneapolis, MN)

This session will provide K-12 Colorado science teachers support with aligning classroom instruction to the Colorado Academic Standards for Science by unpacking the components of the standards and providing free, evidence-based instructional resources.

TAKEAWAYS:
By the end of this session, participants will recognize the three dimensions of the Evidence Outcome Statements outlined in the Colorado Academic Standards for Science and leave with evidence-based instructional resources to support them in aligning their science instruction with the standards.

SPEAKERS:
Samantha Agoos (Colorado Department of Education: La Veta, CO)

A periodic table battle ship game that I created with Google Sheets allows students to play a game that enables students to use the periodic table as a playing field. Students communicate with each other, building their understanding, fluency, sportsmanship, and positive classroom community.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn the benefits of the game and be able to participate in game play with another attendee. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RhRi_x4IAZwGNfor-JkiU-B5kisb1Wqm7OXtTQTsoRQ/edit?usp=sharing

SPEAKERS:
Peter Kelly (Brandywine Springs School: Wilmington, DE)

Teams of youth living next to Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, home of mountain gorillas, are becoming solutionaries with their STEAM conservation projects that help the forest, the gorillas and other wildlife, and people. This program is with Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, NatGeo Explorer.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will understand that these solutions-based STEAM conservation projects are designed by youth to create systemic and beneficial change for people, the environment, and non-human animals. The projects are empowering many marginalized youth with knowledge, life skills, and confidence.

SPEAKERS:
Laura Arndt (Global GreenSTEM: Franktown, CO)

We’ve all experienced the power of immersion. Learning in these moments, fostering a deep connection to the community and world around us, can have a profound impact on students. Join us for this Teacher Voices Keynote Panel

TAKEAWAYS:
Moderated by Dr Stephen Pruitt, featuring Julia Navarro, Charles Hayes, and Khamphet Pease

SPEAKERS:
Stephen Pruitt (Southern Regional Education Board: Atlanta, GA), Julia Navarro (Wheeling High School: Wheeling, IL), Khamphet Pease (Teacher: San Diego, CA), Charles Hayes (Highland Oaks Elementary School: Memphis, TN)

Cutting-edge research happening on the CSU campus not only gets out into the world, but the students are the ones to bring it to life for themselves as they become researchers using the inquiry-based STEM kit lending library.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers and scientific researchers will come away from this session with ideas on how to develop hands-on, inquiry-based activities based on cutting-edge research that allow students to become research scientists for a day or two in a classroom setting.

SPEAKERS:
Courtney Butler (Assistant Director, Natural Sciences Education & Outreach Center: Fort Collins, CO)

Join Girls Who Code to learn how to build inclusive programs– equipping students with the confidence and skills they need to make a positive impact on their community and career. You’ll walk away with tangible tips and tools for how to incorporate coding, community-building activities, and more.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn how to implement coding activities that encourage positive social-emotional development and engage learners from historically underrepresented groups in tech. Attendees will leave the session with best practices and guidance for building inclusive coding programs in their communities.

SPEAKERS:
Michaela Burger (Girls Who Code: New York, NY)

We are middle school teachers at a title one school with the highest number of grade 6-8 L25 students of the 125 schools in our district. This session will focus on the strategies that we use daily to ensure we are teaching with rigor in a way that all students can learn!

TAKEAWAYS:
"Every student, every question, every time" is our school philosophy. We will share our tried and true strategies for distributed summarizing and effective questioning.

SPEAKERS:
Barbara Rebeor (Harns Marsh Middle School: Ft Myers, FL)

Learn how to become a member of a collaborative effort between NMLSTA and NSTA to support early-career, middle-level science teachers with access to resources and networking opportunities.

TAKEAWAYS:
Early-career, middle-level science teachers will become aware of opportunities to connect in a nationwide professional learning community supported by resources and networking.

SPEAKERS:
Loris Chen (none: Fair Lawn, NJ)

This project exposed science and math undergraduates to research-based learning strategies (e.g., real-life scenarios, peer-to-peer discussion, and STEM-related issues) and K-12 fieldwork with multilingual learners to bolster understanding of inclusive pedagogy and interest in STEM teaching careers.

TAKEAWAYS:
Exposing undergraduates to K-12 real-life experiences in multilingual learner classrooms, peer-to-peer discussion, research-based inclusive strategies, and current STEM-related issues increases interest in both equitable pedagogy and future careers in science and math high school teaching.

SPEAKERS:
Catherine Lussier (University of California, Riverside: Riverside, CA)

Cutting-edge research happening on the Colorado State University-Fort Collins campus not only gets out into the world, but students are the ones bringing it to life for themselves as they become researchers using the inquiry-based STEM kit lending library.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers and scientific researchers will come away from this session with ideas on how to develop hands-on, inquiry-based activities highlighting cutting-edge research that allows students to become research scientists for a day or two in a classroom setting.

SPEAKERS:
Andrew Warnock (Colorado State University: Fort Collins, CO)

Engage with a strategic tool used to identify specific and systemic barriers that hinder students' with IEPs access to grade level science instruction in order to intentionally design high quality, standards-based science and engineering learning experiences and environment for ALL students.

TAKEAWAYS:
Research on equitable systems and instructional practices used to design tools to support moving toward system-wide goals for equity in science classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
Eva Bridgeforth (Denver Public Schools: Denver, CO), Tammy Law (Yuma Middle School: Otis, CO), Elizabeth Johnston (Denver Public Schools: Denver, CO)

Our STEM research camp uses an inquiry-based curriculum to engage non-binary and female middle schoolers in authentic research. Campers develop and test hypotheses, increasing their self-efficacy. Further, our female and non-binary undergraduate counselors are empowered to see themselves as leaders.

TAKEAWAYS:
Ensuring that middle school girls and non-binary youth have role models like them while pursuing authentic research increases feelings of self-efficacy and belongingness in informal STEM education.

SPEAKERS:
Megan Patnott (Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Mathematics: Denver, CO), Bethany Lucas (Associate Professor: Denver, CO)

DEI session focuses on ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) & how they affect children’s education. Participants will gain a foundational understanding of how ACES affect behavior & learning, how educators can promote a safe classroom environment, & rehearse coping strategies for use in the classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
ACEs contribute to toxic stress that changes the brains of the affected. This interrupts quality health, behavior, and of most importance, learning. In order to maximize student achievement, educators must learn to recognize the effects of ACEs and how to foster resilience.

SPEAKERS:
Rachel Eades (Midland Trail High School: Ansted, WV)

Calling all diverse and experienced K-12 educators that impact students and their community. Learn how to win up to $10K with Shell-sponsored teacher awards.

TAKEAWAYS:
Collaborate with past winners and judges to learn how to start your winning application for the Shell Teaching Awards. We'll walk through the application step-by-step, and you'll be able to begin your application or nomination form live. These awards are applicable to K-12 science educators.

SPEAKERS:
Amanda Upton (NSTA: Fresno, TX)

This session will provide an overview of the National Girls Collaborative Project, a robust network of educators and other professionals, our high-quality, research-based resources and professional development focused on engaging and inspiring girls in STEM, and how to connect with our network.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn about the National Girls Collaborative Project, our research-based resources, and professional development opportunities focused on building educators’ capacity to engage and inspire girls in STEM, and how to connect and collaborate with our robust network.

SPEAKERS:
Karen Peterson (National Girls Collaborative Project: Snohomish, WA), Brenda Britsch (National Girls Collaborative: Seattle, WA)

Meet a group of science teachers using their power as master practitioners to advance science education through community engagement & strategic partnerships with government & business that raise money to promote science awareness, develop STEM programs for urban youth & train teachers.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will learn how to harness their unrealized power as experts in classroom science to grow beyond the classroom and become leaders, advocates, and ambassadors of science education at the local, state, and national levels.

SPEAKERS:
Yishan Lee (PS/MS 219: Bayside, NY), Dianna Gobler (Westhampton Beach High School: Westhampton Beach, NY), Lawrence Perretto (STEM Leadership Center: Stamford, CT)

Explore the forms and functions of color in the living world to design your own camouflage pattern in an activity that leverages research-backed STEAM practices to support identity and mindset in diverse learners. Leave with an NGSS-aligned biology activity that can be modified for various ages.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn equity-focused strategies for integrating art and biology in instruction, including those that support STEAM-linked identities in learners, and foster a growth-oriented STEAM mindset.

SPEAKERS:
Laura Carsten Conner (University of Alaska Fairbanks: Fairbanks, AK), Perrin Teal Sullivan (University of Alaska Fairbanks: Fairbanks, AK)