K-12

Saturday, September 30

Featured keynote speaker: Pooja Agarwal, Ph.D. - Cognitive Scientist, Educator, Author

Join us at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science for a day of " Mind & Brain Education" presented and attended by local K-12 educators and university researchers with a common interest in applying psychology and neuroscience to their practice as they learn about things like:  

• How do we learn? 
• How do we regulate emotion? 
• Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain 
• What motivates and demotivates learners? 
• The Science of Belonging & Agency 

We are bringing together local facilitators who will present some evidence-based strategies that you can walk away and use tomorrow.  Choose between several 90-minute concurrent mini-sessions held in 3 rounds. 

Friday, September 29

Join your peers in an interactive day of learning about the science of learning and how to incorporate nudges into your teaching to help students learn how to learn effectively in your classroom. Rather than redesigning what you already do, learn ways to incorporate small changes into your content to help your students better understand how they learn and how to apply that to learning in your classroom.  

Dates and times:

IN-PERSON

June 14 (Wednesday)    8:00am - 4:00pm
June 15 (Thursday)       8:00am - 4:00pm
June 16 (Friday)           8:00am - 12:00pm

ONLINE (Asynchronuus)

September 25 - October 30

You don't need to be a scientist or an engineer to teach STEM. You just need a little curiosity!

In collaboration with the University of Colorado Boulder’s TeachEngineering and EleSTEMary, Demystifying STEM is your entry point into engaging and ready to implement STEM teaching practices tailored specifically for the elementary school classroom. Come learn how teaching STEM can go hand-in-hand with teaching literacy, and how inquiry-based lessons can help give your students a head start towards developing 21^st century skills.

In-Person Portion

Weds-Fri June 21-23, 2023 ( 8am-3:30 pm), October 7 , 2023 (8am- 3:30pm)

Asynchronous On-Line Portion

September 4 -Oct 15  Complete Four Classroom Implementation Assignments & A  Weekly Discussion Forum (approx 2 hrs per week of work for 6 weeks)

Learn why the sequence of your lessons and labs matters! Join renowned science educator and author Patrick Brown for a fun and interactive course about bringing conceptual coherence for learners to your lessons and labs.

The session is designed as a complete guided tour for novice teachers, classroom veterans, curriculum specialists, methods course instructors, and informal science educators

Topics include:

• What you need to do. An overview of an effective instructional model called “Explore Before Explain” with considerations about planning and designing effectively
• How to do it. Ready-to-teach lessons to cover a variety of science topics. Detailed examples show how specific aspects of all three dimensions of the NGSS can translate into your classroom.
• What to do next. Reflection questions will spark thinking throughout the sequencing process and help you to develop the knowledge necessary to adapt these concepts to your curriculum and students’ needs.

Interact with supportive peers as you develop your own practice of science instruction that promotes engagement as well as deep, long-lasting understanding for your students.