Increasing Minorities in STEM Starts in the Classroom
Working in STEM is a collaborative effort. Most STEM careers rely on input from multiple STEM professionals, collaboration, and referencing work of others in the […]
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Motivating Students to do Science: A look into Daniel Pink’s Drive
How do I motivate my employees to do their jobs? How do I motivate myself to do my dishes? How do I motivate my students […]
The Magic of the Margins
Being from Kentucky, I’m familiar with corn fields and their look. The same things, planted in rows and columns, spread apart the same length. There […]
The Space Between : Teaching in the Margins
What’s a margin, and how do I get there? A forest tree line. An intertidal zone. That little grassy space between a highway and a […]
The Spontaneity of Education: Taking Students to the Margins of Education and Utilizing Teachable Moments to have Lightbulb Moments
Education is often perceived as a systematic process, but some of its most powerful moments occur in unplanned spaces: at the margins. In these moments […]
Exemplary Science Classrooms
Close your eyes and imagine this scenario: a classroom with white walls, a row of desks, and a teacher lecturing to the students. Imagine the […]
Unpacking ‘For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood’: Transformative Lessons in Education
The book For White People Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest if Y’all Too by Christopher Emdin, has reshaped my instructional approach. In […]
Trauma-Influenced Pedagogy
‘Fostering Resilient Learners; Strategies for creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom’ By Kristin Souers and Peter hall is a book written with an extreme purpose in mind. […]
Trauma Informed Teaching: How do we get there?
Teaching not only ourselves, but also our students on how to be resilient as science learners will better prepare them for scenarios they might encounter […]
Lets Make our Thinking Visible in Science!
A science classroom sets up an opportunity for students to think critically, explore new information, and engage in thought-provoking discussions based on the content presented […]