Free teacher communities
Find your working group for 2026/27
Exchange classroom ideas, connect with fellow educators, or help lead a group into its next chapter. Find the community and meeting schedule that fit your teaching.
- Free to participate
- Teacher-facilitated
- Four active groups
- Three groups seeking facilitators
2026/27 teacher communities
Active working groups
Find a conversation closest to your classroom. Join one of these four active groups to share ideas and receive meeting information. All meeting times below are New York time.
Membership snapshot: 1,195 group memberships across the seven groups listed for 2026/27, as of October 7, 2026. Individuals may participate in more than one group. New Teachers is shown separately while its current status is confirmed.
Earth Science
Share classroom resources, lab ideas, instructional strategies, and support for Earth and space science courses and assessments.
December exception: December 14, 2026.
Physics
Discuss labs, resources, curriculum shifts, and classroom challenges across Regents, AP, IB, and general physics.
Harnessing AI for Educators
Experiment with classroom tools while exploring responsible use, ethics, digital literacy, and practical teaching applications.
Equity Lab
Discuss research, resources, and practical strategies for creating more equitable and inclusive STEM classrooms.
Members are being polled for meeting times. Interested in helping lead? Let us know when you sign up.
Help shape what comes next
Working groups launching soon
Chemistry, Living Environment / Biology, and Climate are finding new facilitators. Tell us if you would like to participate or help lead. We will share plans as they develop.
Chemistry
Share demonstrations, hands-on investigations, and strategies for making difficult chemistry concepts more accessible.
Help shape this group’s next chapter. Express interest in participating or helping lead.
Living Environment / Biology
Connect around the transition to Regents Biology, classroom labs, curriculum, and instructional strategies.
Help shape this group’s next chapter. Express interest in participating or helping lead.
Climate
Interested in a community around climate education? Help shape its next chapter. Group plans are being confirmed for 2026/27.
Help shape this group’s next chapter. Express interest in participating or helping lead.
Looking ahead
New Teachers
We are confirming this group’s plans for 2026/27. Express interest to hear about future opportunities for pre-service and early-career teachers.
New Teachers
Connect with practicing educators for classroom-ready support, mentoring, and practical strategies for the early years of teaching.
A simple next step
Choose. Connect. Keep learning.
Working groups make room for the questions and conversations that cannot always fit inside a single workshop.
Choose your community
Find the subject or shared question that feels closest to your work.
Tell us you are interested
Click Join or I’m interested. Your group is preselected; enter your name and email to connect.
Receive meeting information
Active groups will share meeting information. Groups seeking leaders will share updates as plans develop.
Questions
What members should know
Start with the group that interests you. The quick signup asks only for the essentials, while the directory includes a separate link for new group suggestions.
What is a STEMteachersNYC working group?
A working group is a free, teacher-facilitated community where educators share resources, discuss classroom challenges, and build solutions together.
Are working groups free?
Yes. STEMteachersNYC working groups are free.
Are meetings virtual or in person?
Meeting format and joining details will be shared by email. Groups may meet virtually, in person, or use a combination.
How do I receive meeting information?
Sign up for an active group to receive meeting information by email. For groups seeking facilitators, express interest to hear about plans as they develop.
Can I suggest another working group?
Yes. Use the Suggest a group link below the directory to share an idea or indicate that you may be interested in co-facilitating.
Ready when you are
Join a working group
Choose a group, enter your name and email, and you are done. The optional note and co-facilitating checkbox let you share more only if you want to.
Start your 30-second signup
The quick form stays on this page and asks only for the information needed to connect you with a facilitator.
Your signup is saved to the STEMteachersNYC working-group response sheet.
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