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STEMteachersEXPO 2020! "Growing Responsive STEM Communities" https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stemteachersexpo-growing-responsive-stem-communities-tickets-116958162011

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STEM Teachers EXPO 2020 - STEMteachersNYC STEMteachersNYC, STEMteachersNWA, STEMteachersPHX and our network of teacher-led professional learning communities are excited to announce the First Annual STEMteachersEXPO, which will be held online, from October 23-25, 2020! Over the last ten years, our sibling organizations have been establishe....

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STEM Teachers EXPO 2020 - STEMteachersNYC First annual STEMteachersEXPO! “Building Responsive STEM Communities.” October 23-25, 2020 via Zoom STEMteachersNYC, STEMteachersNWA, STEMteachersPHX and our network of teacher-led professional learning communities are excited to announce the First Annual STEMteachersEXPO, which will be held onl...

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Teacher Leaders Are Working Together Online to Improve Schools, Effect Policy, and Re-Envision the Future of STEM Teaching and Learning TERC announces the launch of the STEM Teacher Leadership Network, funded by the National Science Foundation. We invite teacher leaders, researchers and administrators to join this quickly growing online community to effect change in STEM teaching and learning.

Nothing like a fire emergency requiring total evacuation from the hotel in the beginning of our lab for our workshop 🤦‍♀️

CAST day 2! Intro to modeling session! Doing a lab with constant velocity buggies!

Engaging teachers with whiteboarding techniques at CAST! Michael Lynch Michael Haskins

How to help the Amazon rainforest: 9 things you can do during the fires and beyond The Amazon is burning. You can help save the rainforest right now.

Last day of two great modeling workshops! I hope all of them go forth and infect their peers with the modeling spirit and send us more teachers to keep our workshops going!

❝Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.❞ — Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE

• Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

• Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

• Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

• Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne — after telling her not to publish).

• Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

• Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.

• Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

(OP: Matthew Gardner)

Mechanics modeling workshop day 9 with Patti Ego and Michael Lynch! One more day to go. Shout out to this great group of teachers who spent two weeks of their summer “break” improving their instructional methods!