Past Virtual Events - 2024

Past Virtual Events - 2024

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2024

2024 Virtual Events

Climate Change and Environmental Education: the Challenges of Language Use, Curriculum Design and Making Meaningful Connections

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Monday, December 2, 2024, 11:00am – 11:30pm ET

Profound understanding can be a vibrant power for education, leading to a path for taking steps to protect positive environment protection. One aspect is communication among the scientists & the scholars of humanities to convey the concepts correctly.

Explanatory understanding plays an important role for effective environment education. The term climate change is also discussed with various aspects. Use of effective science terms to improve understanding. Some pathways to make science concepts effectively understandable. The art and science of making effective diagrams to convey science concepts In a multilingual world - to reach all needs of multilingual communication. Multiple forms of environment (considering physical environment, cognitive environment, social environment, language environment and other forms). How this approach can facilitate multidimensional pathways for environment education.

Organizers:
Dr. Altaf Qadeer, dr.altafqadeer@gmail.com

Understanding How Black and Hispanic Students’ Career Aspirations Evolve During Middle and High School

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Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 1-2 pm EST

The continued shortage of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals in the United States has urged researchers and educators to examine how best to increase and diversify the STEM workforce. Of utmost concern is the underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic students in the STEM workforce. Because many students begin to formulate career aspirations during adolescence, it is critical to understand how career aspirations change during middle and high school.

To this end, we conducted a survey of 1,134 beginning college students at 23 institutions in the U.S., including Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions, asking students to report their career aspirations at four time points-- from the beginning of middle school to the beginning of college.

In this webinar, we will share our findings.

Organizers:
Tingting Reid, tingting.reid@cfa.harvard.edu

NARST API Townhall Meeting: Listen to API scholars and Allies

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Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 8-9:30 pm EST

Sponsored by:NARST API RIG Leadership

The NARST API RIG leadership team hosts a town hall meeting to listen to API scholars’ and allies’ needs, aspirations, and concerns, so that the leadership can plan 2024-2025 RIG activities that are responsive to the ideas and concerns shared in this forum.

This event also aims to facilitate community building and networking among API scholars, allies, and beyond.

During this session, participants will be invited to choose the topic or problems that they are interested in, engage in conversation with others in breakout rooms, and generate recommendations for the NARST API RIG leadership.

In this webinar, we will share our findings.

Organizers:
Hosun Kang; hosunk@uci.edu

Teaching School Genetics in the 2020s: Why naïve Mendelian genetics has to go

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Monday, November 4, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST

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The way we teach Mendelian genetics in schools deprives school students of gaining an authentic image of both hereditary phenomena and of the nature of science. Mendelian genetics is a research program that dominated the first half of the 20th century, whereas it continued to be active during its second half despite the “molecular revolution”.

This presentation corrects the distorting stereotypical representations of Mendelian genetics and provides an authentic picture of how science is done, and also explains how the oversimplifications of Mendelian genetics were exploited by ideologues to provide the presumed “scientific” basis for eugenics. In their place, it proposes a shift in school education from teaching how the science of genetics is done using model systems to teaching the complexities of development through which heredity is materialized.

Organizers:
Kostas Kampourakis, Kostas.Kampourakis@unige.ch

NARST Member Training - Navigating Your Member Portal

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Monday, October 21 , 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. EST

Join us for an overview on navigating your NARST member portal.

Learn how to: 

  • Use the NARST Member Forum
  • Set your subscription preferences
  • Join and navigate the online groups for RIGs

Anti-blackness and Latinidad

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Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00pm ET

Sponsored by: LARIG Research Interest Group

Anti-Blackness refers to beliefs, attitudes, actions, practices, and behaviors of individuals and institutions that devalue, minimize, and marginalize the full participation of Black people. Recently, LatCrit Education scholars have emphasized the necessity to situate race in the conceptualization of Latinidad, and thus address Anti-Blackness in the Latino/a/x/e community.

During this event, invited speakers will present their work with Latino STEM students/educators, highlighting the ways in which they situate race and name anti-Blackness. Following their presentations, members of the LARIG leadership will facilitate an open discussion with webinar attendees on this topic.

Organizers:
Summer Blanco, summer.blanco@uga.edu 

International Perspectives on Multidisciplinary Research in Science Education

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August 15, 2024, Thursday 9:00 - 11:00 am EST

Join us for an exciting event exploring multidisciplinary research in science education. Speakers will present projects from three global/international teams addressing global challenges in STEM/STEAM education.

Highlights include advancing wastewater testing to track COVID-19, integrating AI into science teaching and learning, and integrating science, math, and computer science using educational robotics.

This event will facilitate a rich exchange of ideas, strategies, resources, and best practices among science educators and researchers worldwide.

Speakers 
- Hunkoog Jho, Department of Science Education, Dankook University
- Sahar Alameh, STEM Education Department, University of Kentucky
- Ezgi Yesilyurt, Department of Zoology, Weber State University

Escúchame, Mi Ciencia Cuenta: Leveraging Cultural Ways of Knowing to Increase Chicana Stem Engagement

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August 7, 2024, Wednesday, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Central Time

Sponsored by: LARIG Research Interest Group

Join Dr. Patricia Ramirez-Biondolillo for a provocative session that discusses how we may counter the standardized hegemonic science curriculum that excludes Chicanx cultural representation by utilizing the underpinnings of social justice.

In this session, we will examine how testimonios of Chicana preservice teachers can be leveraged to articulate culturally sustainable practices relevant to these teachers in the Rio Grande Valley and beyond.

Organizers:
Uma Ganesan, uma.ganesan@utrgv.edu 
Angela Chapman, angela.chapman@utrgv.edu

NARST Summer Writing Retreat

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July 10, 2024, Wednesday, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm Eastern.

Sponsored by: Membership Committee

We are excited to announce the NARST Summer Writing Retreat organized by the Membership Committee and led by Dr. Jonathan Bowers.

The Writing Retreat will be a half-day virtual event where members can come together to write and receive feedback on their writing projects. The Writing Retreat is a collective space where members write and support each other. Writers with diverse experiences will be present to answer questions and address challenges you face in finalizing (or even getting started) your writing projects, particularly your NARST proposal.

This event is FREE and only available to our members.

Empowering Future Generations: Integrating Computational Learning Across the Disciplines in K-12 Education

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June 5, 2024, Wednesday, 9:30-11:00am Pacific / 12:30-2:00pm Eastern.

This event aims to spotlight the transformative role of computational learning within the K-12 math and science curriculum, emphasizing the necessity of equipping our educators and students with the tools to navigate and influence an increasingly computational world. With a dedication to fostering equity in STEM, we will delve into discussing the need for the creation of innovative, empirically grounded learning resources designed to seamlessly integrate computational thinking and cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence into science and math teaching. This session will not only showcase models for disciplinary integration of computational learning but also offer participants to engage in an interactive discussion on what is needed to develop empirically grounded, scalable resources aimed at integrating computational thinking across the K-12 disciplines. Participants will offer insights into how we, as a community, can enhance computational learning capacities in K-12 systems.

Organizers: 

Vanessa Lujan, Lawrence Hall of Science, vlujan@berkeley.edu 

Ari Krakowski, Lawrence Hall of Science, akrakowski@berkeley.edu

What affects STEM teacher identity: The influence of high school and college experiences

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May 28, 2024, Tuesday, 2:00-3:00 pm Eastern. 

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Do pre-service educators see themselves as science teachers? What in-school and out-of-school factors impact STEM teacher identity? The number or type of STEM courses taken in high school or college? Education courses or teaching opportunities experienced during college? Hobbies or activities experienced outside of the classroom? To answer this question, we conducted a nationwide survey of over 1,700 pre-service educators at 62 undergraduate teacher preparation programs. In this webinar, we will share our findings.

Organizers: 

Cynthia Crockett, ccrockett@cfa.harvard.edu

Rongxiu Wu, rongxiu.wu@cfa.harvard.edu

Disrupting Dominant Narratives About API Educators and Students in Science Education

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May 22, 2024, Wednesday, 6:30-8:00 pm Eastern. 

Sponsored by: Asian and Pacific Islander Research Interest Group

The goals of this virtual event, hosted by the API RIG, are to (1) provide a space for API scholar-educators and allies to share their experiences and perspectives in ways that disrupt deficit-based, dominant narratives of the API community with a focus on science education, and (2) to encourage collaborations and networking among API scholars and allies in the work of advancing equity, diversity, justice, and inclusion for the API science education community through scholar-activism and research. A panel of educators and researchers will share their experiences, perspectives, and scholar-activist work in the first 40 minutes, followed by a 20 minute Q & A session. 30 minutes will be allocated for breakout sessions for API scholars to network and connect over common interests.

Organizer: Hosun Kang, hosunk@uci.edu

NARST Members Writing Retreat

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March 1, 2024

Host: Membership Committee

The Writing Retreat will be a half-day virtual event where members can come together to write and receive feedback on their writing projects. The Writing Retreat is a collective space where members write and support each other. Writers with diverse experiences will be present to answer questions and address challenges you are facing in finalizing (or even getting started) on your writing projects, papers, or manuscripts. This event is free to NARST members. We look forward to a productive and collaborative writing session! Should you have any inquiries or require further information, feel free to reach out to:

Organizers: 

Tugba Yuksel, tugbayuksel@gmail.com 

Jonathan Bowers, bowersj8@msu.edu

NARST International Collaboration Series #3: Surviving and Thriving as an International Graduate Student

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January 30, 2024

Host: International Committee

International graduate students face special cultural and language barriers that can affect their nascent network and their writing progress. This session will invite current and recently-completed international graduate students to reflect on how to survive and thrive in their respective programs. Expected topics include building a support structure within a community and program, building an international network through the engagement of peer support, and writing conference proposals or journal articles. This session would allow international graduate students the opportunity to meet each other and form small teams that can serve as a supportive network.

Organizer: Ranu Roy