Lawrence O’Toole Teacher Leadership Awards Announced
Congratulations to Investigating STEM Literacies in Makerspaces teacher, Ashley Freeman! Ashley was named one of 12 New England teachers to win the Lawrence O’Toole Teacher Leadership Award, due to her focus on innovative student-centered learning.The awards honor public high school teachers across the region who are working to scale student-centered learning in their schools, districts and communities. More About Ashley FreemanMalden High School, Malden, MA A physics and engineering teacher at Malden High School, Ashley encourages her students to participate in the school’s makerspace and developed a course called Creative Design and Engineering, » Read more
Families in the Boston Area Needed!
TERC, a nonprofit organization located in Cambridge, MA, is looking for families with at least one child, age 5 and up, who is deaf or hard of hearing and uses ASL for communication, to use a prototype signing glossary during a visit to a zoo. The glossary is being developed to enhance access to science learning for families such as yours. Admission and parking costs will be covered. Glossaries for use in other kinds of museums, such as nature centers, » Read more
TERC Hosts 2017 STEM for All Video Showcase, Funded by NSF, to Highlight Innovation in STEM Education
171 three-minute videos of innovative work broaden participation and access to STEM education.Showcase online: May 15th-22nd May 15, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3rd annual Video Showcase encourages interaction, collaboration, networking and public voting to recognize most effective presentations Cambridge, MA — If you’re a researcher, practitioner, policy maker, or parent interested in inspiring students to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers, how can you find out about innovative initiatives to improve STEM education? One answer is the » Read more
An invitation to join Empowering Teachers Through VideoReView
TERC’s Video-Supported Professional Learning Program For teachers of science grades 2-6 in the Boston areaSchool Year 2017-2018 Applications due June 20th TERC’s Empowering Teachers through VideoReView program is inviting teams (2-4 teachers of upper elementary grade science) to participate in a video-supported professional development program. What is the Program? Empowering Teachers Through VideoReView is a video-supported professional development program in which participants study video from their own science discussions. Using video they gain insight into students’ science ideas and reasoning, » Read more
Council for Exceptional Children 2017 Convention & Expo
Thousands of educators convened in Boston April 19–22 for the world’s largest special education professional development event. CEC 2017 hosted over 4,000 educators from around the globe, to gain insights and explore solutions to the most important and challenging topics facing special education today. Over 500 sessions and workshops highlighted the newest research and strategies in special education and the policy developments that affect teachers and their work every day. One of the Robotics, Engineering and Online Math sessions was led by TERC’s » Read more
TERC Workshops at Cambridge Science Festival 2017
The workshops at TERC that were part of this year’s Cambridge Science Festival were fully attended and brought together science, technology, engineering, mathematics and fun! Everyday Math Stories/Cuentos matemáticos cotidianos Come for an English/Spanish storytime. Author Ellen Mayer read her book, Cake Day, and signed copies for everyone. Her picture book and others included the math we do when we’re cooking, playing and having fun. Activities after the storytime had the children building towers with everyday items and measuring and mixing to make play dough. » Read more
TERC Sessions at NARST
National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) GLOCALization and Sustainability of Science Education Research and Practice San Antonio, TX, USAApril 22 – 25, 2017 Saturday April 22nd Strand 2: Science Learning: Contexts, Characteristics and Interactions Symposium: Epistemic Agency as a Members’ Experience Presenters: Christina Krist, University of Maryland College Park; Danielle T. Keifert, Exploratorium; Déana A. Scipio, TERC; Anna M. Phillips, Tufts University; Jessica Watkins, Tufts University; David Hammer, Tufts University, Brian J. » Read more
TERC at AERA Annual Meeting 2017
More than 15,000 researchers and experts in the field will convene April 27 – May 1 in San Antonio for the AERA Annual Meeting, Knowledge to Action—Achieving the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity. The AERA Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of scholars in the field of education research. It is a showcase for ground-breaking, innovative studies in a diverse array of areas — from early education through higher education, » Read more
National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST)
April 14-17 | Baltimore MD Building systems from Scratch: An exploratory study of student learning about climate change Presenters: Gillian Puttick (TERC) and Eli Tucker-Raymond (TERC) 10:15am – 11:45am | Gibson Abstract: Computing has been a foundational tool in the development of scientific understanding of current and future impacts of climate change, the most important socio-scientific issue facing society today. Science practices, such as modeling and abstraction, are critical to understanding complex systems dynamics integral to understanding climate science. » Read more