News and events
Fall 2022—STEM Education Seminar Series–October 5
The Meaning Beyond The Words: How Language, Race, & Culture Impact Science Teaching & Learning
The Department of STEM Education along with the Center for Science Teaching and Learning presented guest speaker, Dr. Bryan Brown from Stanford University. Dr. Brown shared an overview of his research into the complex interaction between language and learning, particularly in the science classroom. He introduced the concept of “languaculture” expressing the relationship between language and culture, which then influences how students may or may… Read more
Three-time Lumberjack wins Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
Robyn Yewell, an elementary school teacher in Tucson and a master’s student in the Center for Science Teaching, was announced in February as one of the national awardees of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, K-6, for 2020. Learn more about Yewell’s commitment to providing high-quality, accessible STEM education to students.
Spring 2022—STEM Education Seminar Series–March 3
Approximating Practice in Mathematics Teacher Education: Supporting and Revealing Teacher Candidate Learning
The Department of STEM Education along with the Center for Science Teaching and Learning presented guest speaker, Dr. Matthew Campbell from West Virginia University. Dr. Campbell drew upon examples from practice and research to illustrate learning opportunities or teacher candidates. Check out his recorded lecture and slide deck in our STEM Education Seminars archive.
Project Focus: FEWSION for Community Resilience™
Check out these recent updates from the FEWSION for Community Resilience™ project, on which the CSTL’s Sean Ryan is a project coordinator:
Training Manual Published
The F4R™ team has worked hard to compile a comprehensive training manual for participants who wish to learn how to leverage the F4R™ process to build resilience in their communities. This training manual is a guide for the F4R™ process. It contains suggested activities and content that promote learning, research, and action focused on supply chains.… Read more
CSTL Published in Afterschool Matters: PD for STEM Educators
The CSTL PLANETS team recently published an article in the Afterschool Matters journal on the professional learning support that is needed to meet the varying needs of out-of-school time STEM educators.
Check out the abstract:
Flexibility, opportunities for exploration, and a focus on 21st century skills make out-of-school time (OST) programs an ideal environment for authentic learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM; Committee on STEM Education, 2013; Noam & Shah, 2014). In addition, because OST programs serve significant populations… Read more
Citizen-Led Community Innovation for Food Energy Water Nexus Resilience
Check out this publication from the team working on the FEWSION for Community Resilience initiative, including CSTL’s Sean Ryan and Nena Bloom
Frontiers in Environmental Science, posted September 23, 2020
Release of the article by Emma Hibbett, Richard Rushforth, Elisabeth Roberts, Sean Ryan, Kyle Pfeiffer, Nena Bloom, Benjamin L Ruddell, published in Frontiers in Environmental Science, section Science and Environmental Communication. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.571614
“Food-energy-water (FEW) resources are necessary for the function of… Read more
Getting to Know CSTL: Meet Lori Rubino-Hare
Lori is a Professional Development Coordinator at the CSTL. She was a middle-school teacher in Arizona for 13 years before coming to the CSTL. Lori is a proud NAU alumna with a BSEd in Elementary Ed and a MEd with distinction in Gifted Special Education. Lori has worked on a number of grants with the CSTL funded by NSF… Read more
NAU’s CSTL contributes to Flagstaff Community STEM Celebration
The Flagstaff Community STEM Celebration went virtual this year with the help of NAU’s Center for Science Teaching and Learning.
Anne Hamlin of the CSTL and STEM City board member helped coordinate the virtual week-long event that featured local STEM organizations with videos about how they use STEM in their daily work.
The videos premiered each night the first week of May and are indefinitely available.
The CSTL contributed a video produced by NAU students and Assistant Clinical Professor, Theresa Fuller. Keefer… Read more
CSTL Receives NASA Funding to Support Outreach in Underserved Communities
The Center for Science Teaching and Learning has received a $359K NASA grant to develop a replicable engagement model to prepare planetary scientists to engage audiences in planetary science with an explicit focus on Black and Latinx communities.
The CSTL team, led by PI Lori Rubino-Hare, will partner with the Lunar and Planetary Institute on Planetary Resources and Content Heroes (ReaCH) to develop a replicable engagement model for preparing NASA scientists to engage diverse audiences in planetary science.
A needs assessment… Read more