Improving STEM Teaching and Learning for All Students: Taking Equitable Actions Through a Systems Approach

Pacific Lutheran University, Puget Sound Educational Service District & school district STEM leaders offer this rare opportunity to join an emerging network of STEM partners to study and lead for the improvement of equitable STEM learning for each students we serve.

Collaborate with school district educators and administrators; College of Education and STEM faculty and university education and STEM students to:

• Analyze best practices in STEM learning for specific groups of learners
• Deepen understanding of culturally responsive teaching
• Examine your own knowledge, beliefs, identities, and biases about STEM learning
• Use a systems approach to identify barriers to implementing and sustaining best practices in STEM learning
• Use design thinking and the engineering design process to optimize STEM learning for specific groups of students

Topics to be covered:

• How to uncover bias and stereotype in STEM instruction
• Strategies to support Culturally responsive teaching
• Using Targeted Universalism to restructure STEM education in equitable ways

Leave with a deeper understanding of the shifts required for effective STEM learning in K-12 and in pre-service preparation, and with ideas for how to move their own practices and advocacy forward in meaningful ways.