The Disruptor
Leveraging this moment of disruption to empower evidence-based systemic change that advances equity.
Bringing the Field into the Classroom: Using Story Maps as an Inclusive Component of Virtual Field Experiences for Beginning Students
Author(s):
Prajukti Bhattacharyya, Ph.D.Professor of Geology
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Author(s):
Susan Huss-Lederman, Ph.D.Professor Emerita of English
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Editor:
Christopher Atchison Ph.D.Professor of Geoscience Education
University of Cincinnati
Through story-mapping, students can address open-ended questions, critically evaluate existing information, and identify gaps in the current knowledge base.
Building Engagement Through Student Centered Learning
Editor
Calvin Briggs, Ed.D.
Executive Director, The Southern Center for Broadening Participation in STEM
Blog Posts
Who Am I When the Little Things Add Up?
My multiple identities impact how I show up in this world. They also guide the experiential framework of my approach to addressing diversity, equity,…
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How Engagement Enables Broadening STEM Participation
We must embed STEM firmly in the cultural DNA of communities to truly realize the American Dream. I am an African American male .…
Advancing Accessibility in Field Programs
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Bringing the Field into the Classroom: Using Story Maps as an Inclusive Component of Virtual Field Experiences for Beginning Students
Through story-mapping, students can address open-ended questions, critically evaluate existing information, and identify gaps in the current knowledge base.
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Designing for Difference: Conceptualizing and Planning for Variations in Learners’ Needs, Abilities, and Interests
Let’s leverage this moment of disruption to correct the longstanding failure of academia to recognize and plan for the inherent variability in people’s needs,…
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How Advocating for Accessibility in the Field Builds a Culture of STEM Inclusion
Active learning in field-focused science disciplines is widely recognized as highly transformative practice in the undergraduate curriculum. Giving students ea…
Envisioning Dimensions of Equity in an Academic Ecosystem
Editor
Stephanie E. August, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor, Engineering Education, California State University, Los Angeles
Blog Posts
Dear STEM, It’s Time for Some Identity Work
What identities are being built? What identities are (and/or ought) to be dismantled? What structures, traditions, philosophies, and/or practices necessitate d…
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How Disruption Allows Us to Reimagine Convergent STEM Ecosystems
Learn how placing experiences and growth, rather than content delivery, at the center of activity can help you create an educational ecosystem that supports…
Enriching Education to Grow Inclusion
Editor
Mica Estrada, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Institute for Health & Aging, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco
Blog Posts
How Food Can Be a Cultural Bridge to Enhance Student’s STEM Identity and Learning Outcomes
Perhaps food is not peripheral to creating inclusive learning environments, but can be central to its formation.
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Filling the Sieve and Wondering Why We’re Still Thirsty: A Call to Humanize the STEM Workplace for Educators and Students
Many consider the landscape of undergraduate STEM to be characterized by high rates of work stress and inequity across identities of race, ethnicity, .…
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How Kindness is Part of an Excellent STEM Education
In 2017 I set my fingers to the keyboard and, in collaboration with my colleagues, wrote a review article titled “The Influence of Affirming…
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