STEMteachersNYC Summer Institute 2020

July 6 – August 9, 2020 via Zoom Meet Our Summer Leaders!

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Summer STEM Institute 2020

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Culturally Responsive STEM Initiative

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Elementary STEM Initiative

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The STEM Challenge

Addressing the STEM Crisis Through Teacher-Led Professional Learning

Preparing a New STEM Workforce

The US economy suffers from a shortage of qualified STEM workers for manufacturing and technical jobs, and according…

Access to STEM Instruction

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Improving Student Performance

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Energize Your STEM Teaching

Join educators from around the city and world for hands-on professional development in STEM! We organize monthly STEM workshops, and summer intensives in biology, chemistry, math, computer science, physics, and middle/elementary science!

Upcoming Workshops

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Join STEM teachers from around the world for our 10th annual Summer Institute which provides a forum for the highest quality teacher-led professional development in STEM, featuring hands-on workshops taught by real-world classroom teachers.

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Apply for the STEMteachersNYC Excellence in STEM Teaching Award, a scholarship program to support the cost of professional development programs offered at this summer’s Institute.

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Summer STEM Institute 2020

Consilience in Environmental Science Reading Club (HS)

Consilience - “Literally a ‘jumping together’ of knowledge by the linking of facts and fact-based theory across disciplines to create a common groundwork of explanation” E.O. Wilson (Consilience, 1998) This weekly reading club will explore questions and ideas that embrace the consilience ethos specifically as it relates to sustainability and

Dimensions of Cultural Responsiveness in STEM

A comprehensive, multi-layered deep dive into Culturally Responsive Teaching, this 3-Day summer intensive workshop will build on STEMteachersNYC CRT Task Force programming and create a space for participants to work together to co-generate a set of contextualized outcomes. The three day Dimensions of Responsiveness in STEM workshop will launch with

Unit Planning and Curriculum Development with NGSS

In this workshop we will be using all three dimensions of NGSS to design a coherent and conceptual unit plan that will foster enduring understanding of not only content but the big ideas in science. By the end of the workshop you will leave with a completed NGSS-aligned unit plan

Seeing Science Everywhere + Computational Thinking!

This workshop will focus on ways to help children in the elementary grades (K-5) learn to ask and answer questions, make predictions, gather evidence, find patterns, and communicate their ideas. Through a series of hands-on activities and discussions, participants will explore how to use inquiry-driven, collaborative, and phenomena-based investigations with

Growing Your Modeling Practice - Together! (HS)

“I have been practicing this Modeling thing for a few years now but I want to take my skills to the next level.” “I am having trouble adapting what I learned about Modeling to my lessons. I wish I had someone to get advice from.” “How do I communicate what

Elementary STEM Lab - Learning Progressions for Responsiveness in STEM

Our eventual return to in-person school will create a start of a school year unlike any we have experienced previously. While adjustments to the curriculum will need to happen, this will not be enough to get all students on the right track to meeting grade-level goals. Meeting our learners where

Introduction to Assessment & Standards Based Grading

This three-day workshop will guide you through the steps to set up your classes for standards-based grading. We will show you an incremental approach to implementing SBG principles, provide sample learning standards, assessments, and gradebooks, and give you structured time and feedback as you tailor these tools for your own

Advanced Assessment & Standards Based Grading

This year’s Advanced Assessment and Standards Based Grading workshop will be offered as a reunion option for returning alumni of prior year SBG summer workshops, teachers wanting to grow or review their own implementation, as well as an observation lab for participants from the introductory section taking place earlier in

Engineering Design for the Classroom (All Grades)

“Science is the study of the world as it is; Engineering is the creation of the world of tomorrow” – Theodore von Karman This three-day (4 hours per day) workshop is based on materials developed for a semester-long introductory engineering class, a one-week intensive miniterm class, and on lesson plans

Flip Your Regents Physics & Chem Instruction! (HS)

July 6, 2020 | Are you looking to save time and streamline your Regents Physics instruction? Come learn about a way to thoughtfully streamline central aspects of science teaching such as lab, lecture and assessment through Flipped Classroom Instruction! Participants will learn how to develop a lab format, structure and