The Project EDDIE Module Development Workshop will be held at Carleton College in Northfield, MN on October 28-30, 2019.
This workshop will focus on participants designing flexible EDDIE teaching modules that pair scientific concepts and quantitative reasoning with teaching with data.
Though we can't close the gender gap in STEM fields overnight, we can change how we communicate with girls of all ages and inspire their interest in math and science. Don't tell girls they can "be" scientists; encourage them instead to "do" science. Read more.
For years, college administrators have worked to attract minority students—especially Latino and black students—to science and technology fields. But the retention of those students presents another hurdle. Black and Latino college students transfer or drop out of STEM programs— science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—at higher rates than their white peers do, according to a recent study published in the journal Education Researcher.
The STEM Opportunity Index is a multi-layered map that shows how states, school systems, and individual schools are performing in 10 conditions, practices, and outcomes that experts believe are critical to identifying where STEM education is being successfully delivered. The conditions, practices, and outcomes, including such things as Policies and Funding and STEM Learning Opportunities, make up the STEM Framework for Success, the backbone of the STEM Opportunity Index.
Should Teachers Choose Their Own PD?
District leaders say choice in professional development is good, but high-quality, standards-based options are necessary. Read the article featured in Education DIVE.
Extreme Event is an award-winning in-person role-playing game that gives participants a taste of what it takes to build community resilience in the face of disaster. Players work together to make decisions and solve problems during an engaging, fast-faced disaster simulation.
This webinar, hosted by Jeff Thomas, Central Connecticut State University , will explore one-of-seven earth science units for middle school teachers, which focuses on NGSS Disciplinary Core Idea MS ESS2.D, Weather and Climate. This unit, titled "When Air Masses Collide," addresses how air masses are complex weather phenomena and how understanding the dynamics of them can help us predict the weather.