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Today was my last day as a program officer at the US National Science Foundation (#NSF) in the STEM Education Directorate, Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE). I'll be returning to my home institution, the University of Colorado Denver in the CU Denver School of Education & Human Development

It's been an interesting year to say the least. I've had the privilege to work with many great PIs who are doing excellent work advancing STEM education in our country. And I've been able to work with a fantastic group of dedicated and kind colleagues in DUE, many of whom I consider friends. We've funded some very exciting work that has gone through rigorous scientific review, and that is a satisfying feeling.

I hope to be able to share a lot of what I've learned with my colleagues at home and with the broader field. Some of us who are rotating out right now are thinking of ways we can support the PI community in advancing high-quality STEM education and we will have things to share soon.

Goodbye for now, DC. Hello Denver!

#STEMeducation
#science
#STEM
#CUDenver

The promise of mastery-based testing for promoting student engagement, self-regulated learning, and performance in gateway STEM courses sciencedirect.com/science/arti
Used the OLI chemistry course oli.cmu.edu/courses/general-ch
"With mastery-based testing, students chose to repeat exams when they struggled.
Repeating tests was linked to an increase in use of online study resources.
Repeating tests was linked to higher final exam grades, especially for first-gen students."
#STEMeducation #EdDev #EdTech

STEM teachers, did you know that we have film-based lesson plans for STEM classes, too? Many of these lessons can work with showing just scenes of the film or without showing the film at all.

Check out:

Calculating Orbits for Space Travel - Hidden Figures

Chinese Number Rods - Please Vote For Me

Echolocation Class Activity - Whale Rider

Generating Electricity - The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

Goldilocks Planets - One Strange Rock

Rainforest Ecology - River of Gold

(These are just examples, there are many more!)

Like all of our resources, these lesson plans are available free from our library. If you have questions about our materials our would like help finding something for your classroom, we're happy to help.

journeysinfilm.org/library/

@stemeducation @education @edutooters

Journeys in FilmLibrary | Journeys in Film
Thanks to everyone who followed along with us, we had the first clear day on Sunday June 29th, 5-11pm
The Open Air Astro Fair event Is Done!!! A huge thanks to everyone who joined us for astronomy activities. All funds raised will go to observatory repairs and summer operations.
A photo and video gallery for the event will be posted to the observatory website in the next week. As a reminder if any of you would like to revisit the observatory we will have smaller Wednesday tour events for free all year long after sunset at the observatory (free tickets can be found on the website). https://www.yorku.ca/science/observatory/
Thank you all for your support!

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