STEM Best Practices When Bridging the Digital Divide (Middle School)
2020-10-08 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | MO
Take a detailed look at current best practices utilized in high-quality STEM integration. We will share tools for assessing your classroom curriculum both in-person and virtual. We’ll share resources and strategies to assist you in taking your in-person STEM skills virtual.

Professional Development Institute - Career Pathways: Advising Strategies to Connect Students to Labor Market Needs
2020-10-23 10:00 - 11:30 | MO

Autumn Institute for Arts Integration
2020-11-07 08:00 - 2020-11-08 17:00 | MO

Autumn Institute for Arts Integration
2020-11-07 08:00 - 2020-11-08 17:00 | MO
For more than a decade, COCA has assembled teaching artists and classroom educators to co-create meaningful learning experiences through arts integration. The annual Institute arms teachers from all content areas with the knowledge, skills, tools and mindsets to disrupt the status quo in their classroom and curriculum. Four learning tracks focus the teachers’ work, including a toolkit dedicated specifically to STEAM.

ISP Professional Development - Review of the Virtual Science Best Practices Report
2020-11-09 15:30 - 16:30 | Virtual
How do we keep the rigorous nature of the science and engineering practices and phenomena-based learning intact in a virtual environment? In this session, we will give an overview of the Keep Teaching Science! report released by NextGenScience and WestEd. Key best practices for teaching science remotely will be discussed through the lens of specific curriculum examples. We will model a portion of a virtual mySci lesson featured in the report, and give space for participants to brainstorm and share what has and has not worked for them

ISP Professional Development - Asking Yourself Questions Before Searching for an Answer
2020-11-10 15:30 - 16:30 | Virtual
We often give engaging, complex problems to our students, and they aren’t sure where to begin. Learn strategies to get students to ask themselves questions that will engage them in doing mathematics, even if the solution is not in sight

Novel Engineering in the Virtual Elementary Classroom (K-2nd)
2020-11-11 15:30 - 17:00 | MO
Novel Engineering is where literature meets the engineering design process. This session will engage both beginners, or educators who have tried NE in the their classroom and would like to go on to the next level. We will share strategies to take this engaging, content building experience to the virtual classroom.

6th-8th Teacher Panel: Strategies for Teaching Science during COVID.
2020-11-11 15:30 - 16:30 | Virtual
The pandemic has left us to figure out the details of teaching virtually and/or in-person on our own, often in silos. Science in particular has challenges that other subjects do not have, like using materials to carry out investigations in small, collaborative groups. This virtual panel is an opportunity for K-8 teachers to break through the silos to ask questions and share innovative approaches to keeping students interested and engaged in science.

Novel Engineering in the Virtual Elementary Classroom (3rd-5th)
2020-11-12 15:30 - 17:00 | MO
Novel Engineering is where literature meets the engineering design process. This session will engage both beginners, or educators who have tried NE in their classroom and would like to go on to the next level. We will share strategies to take this engaging, content building experience to the virtual classroom.

ISP Professional Development - Helping Students Develop Mathematical Dispositions During Stressful Times
2020-11-12 15:30 - 16:30 | Virtual
As students return to school, many of them will come with anxieties and fears which will impact their learning. Now more than ever, teachers need to attend to the social emotional needs of their students. Students will need a repertoire of tools to persist in rigorous lessons and to participate in meaningful math conversations.

3rd-5th Teacher Panel: Strategies for Teaching Science during COVID
2020-11-16 15:30 - 16:30 | Virtual

ISP Professional Development - Helping Students Develop Mathematical Dispositions During Stressful Time
2020-11-17 15:30 - 16:30 | MO
As students return to school, many of them will come with anxieties and fears which will impact their learning. Now more than ever, teachers need to attend to the social emotional needs of their students. Students will need a repertoire of tools to persist in rigorous lessons and to participate in meaningful math conversations

K-2nd Teacher Panel: Strategies for Teaching Science during COVID
2020-11-18 15:30 - 16:30 | Virtual

ISP Professional Development - Asking Yourself Questions Before Searching for an Answer
2020-11-19 15:30 - 16:30 | MO

STEM Thinking and Talking: Developing Confident Learners
2020-12-02 15:30 - 17:00, 2020-12-03 15:30 - 17:00 | MO
Discover how to encourage, grow, and develop students to be self-identifying, STEM capable learners. We will look through our STEMpact Quality Integration Rubric lens, to see how classroom culture and climate, and teacher talk/moves impacts student accessibility and engagement. We will share strategies to recognize brilliance in all learners, create safe environments for questioning, and allow for meaningful discourse and constructive feedback.

Cybersecurity Connecting Students to Opportunity
2020-12-08 15:00 - 16:00 | MO
Join PLTW on Dec. 8th for Cybersecurity Connecting Students to Opportunity, a virtual event, where we will discuss the need for all students to have access to computer science education and career opportunities by going beyond coding and programming to applications of computational thinking and related skills sets that are crucial for empowering all students in the future workforce. You will also get a deeper look into the new PLTW Cybersecurity course and see how it connects to an area of need and awareness in a sector that demands a diverse skill set.

SLSO Early Childhood Professional Development Workshop
2021-01-05 16:30 - 17:30, 2021-01-09 10:00 - 11:00 | MO
Exploring Opposites: Using Music and Movement to teach Science and Math with The Lion and the Mouse. Leverage the power of music to engage young students in learning math, science, and more! This year’s workshop uses the story of The Lion and the Mouse as the springboard for incorporating music into teaching critical concepts. We’ll have you singing, dancing, playing instruments and composing as you discover how music can support your early childhood teaching goals—no previous music experience required!

STEM Breaking the Code for Grades K - 2
2021-01-06 15:30 - 17:00 | MO
This session will focus on the basics of teaching coding to students of all ages and exposure levels. We will share engaging activities from teaching binary code to early elementary students, to writing lines of code across grade levels. Learn to help students discover the mystery behind the curtain that is their digital screen.

STEM Breaking the Code for Grades 3 - 5
2021-01-07 15:30 - 17:00 | MO

STEM Certificate Program for Teachers
2021-01-12 16:30 - 21:00, 2021-01-19 16:30 - 21:00, 2021-01-26 16:30 - 21:00, 2021-02-02 16:30 - 21:00, 2021-02-09 16:30 - 21:00, 2021-02-16 16:30 - 21:00 | Maryville University, 650 University Dr., Chesterfield, 63017, United States
Teachers earn a certificate in STEM Education through hands-on, real-world learning experiences to integrate STEM into classrooms.

Celebrate STEM!
2021-02-03 15:30 - 17:00, 2021-02-04 15:30 - 17:00 | MO
There are so many wonderful STEM pioneers that have encouraged learners around the world to engage in authentic, real world problem solving. Discover scientists, artists, engineers, writers, children, composers, and more who have engaged in STEM practices over the centuries. Learn how to encourage STEM learning and thinking in your students through celebrating STEM. Strategies for planning and hosting a true STEM Exploration Fair, whether it be a single classroom, grade level, school wide, or a virtual event.

2021 Engineers’ Week Conference
2021-02-23 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual
Please join us for the 2021 Engineers’ Week Conference to honor the St. Louis. Engineering Community. The Engineering Center of St. Louis recognizes engineers, and those individuals related to the engineering industry, as those who are building a stronger tomorrow.
