Featured Panel: Network Around Preparing STEM Teachers for High-Need Schools: Join the ARISE Community
Date: May 6, 2021 from 5:30–6:15 PM ET
Location: Zoom
Panel: ARISE, an initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, funded by the National Science Foundation, provides resources, tools, and a community to foster research and evidence-based innovation in STEM teacher education. We invite you to learn about ARISE (Advancing Research & Innovation in the STEM Education of Preservice Teachers in High-Need School Districts) and its resources and join our community—almost 10,000 strong!
Workshop: Teaching, The Best Kept Secret!
Date: October 14, 2020 at 3:00 PM ET
Location: GoToWebinar
Workshop: AAAS ARISE was pleased to partner with Get the Facts Out for the workshop, “Teaching, The Best Kept Secret”. In this workshop the speakers dug into some data many students and faculty find surprising about the teaching profession. They also shared strategies and resources for communicating the facts about the profession so that students have accurate information about their career prospects. In addition, strategies were shared that include how to talk to students about the profession, a listing of venues for reaching students, and recommendations for sharing the facts at your institution. All materials are professional quality, research-based, and have been extensively user-tested. Watch the webinar on-demand.
Webinar: Strategies for Supporting Students and Teachers Amidst Reopening Schools
Date: September 23, 2020 at 5:30 PM ET
Location: Zoom
Webinar: AAAS ARISE partnered with the STEM Teacher Leadership Network for the webinar, Strategies for Supporting Students and Teachers Amidst Reopening Schools. The webinar addressed multiple challenges around reopening schools, including emotional connectivity to and engagement of students. Panelists’ experience spanned elementary to high school teaching, STEM coaching, and teacher preparation; virtual, as well as in-person instruction; and a variety of district situations in California, Kentucky, and Connecticut. Supporting K-12 students’ academic and social and emotional learning (SEL) needs – as well as those of pre- and in-service teachers – and other effective practices were highlighted, with emphasis and discussion around attendees’ application for use with their own students or teachers they prepare.
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Event: 2020 Noyce Virtual Summit – Centering Equity to Humanize the Process of Coming Back Together
Date: August 5, 2020
Location: Online
Annual Summit: We are pleased to share the on-demand archive for the 2020 Virtual Noyce Summit held on August 5, co-hosted by AAAS and NSF. The Virtual Summit included:
- Opening Plenary with Keynote Speaker Dr. David E. Kirkland on “Centering Equity to Humanize the Process of Coming Back Together”
- Closing Session – “Voices from the Field Panel”
- Gallery Walk Presentations – Presentations from 114 Noyce Projects and 4 Noyce Scholars/Fellows
- Resources for Pre- and In-Service Teachers
- Resources Relating to COVID-19 and Equity
Event: Noyce PI Summer Block Party
Date: July 14, 2020
Location: Online
Special Event: The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) co-hosted our first-ever virtual Noyce event on July 14. It began with an orientation for new Noyce awardees followed by community-building activities among current and new awardees, peer- and NSF-led breakout groups, and panel presentations from seasoned PIs. We ended with networking sessions. Recordings and slides are now available.
Event: 2019 Noyce Summit – The Role of Teacher Preparation Programs in STEM Teacher Retention in High-Need School Districts
Date: July 10-12, 2019
Location: Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
Annual Summit: Building on the May focused meeting on STEM teacher retention, objectives of the 2019 Noyce Summit were to identify:
- evidence-based strategies (i.e., practices, policies, and programmatic components) of STEM teacher preparation programs that may contribute to increased and/or above average STEM teacher retention in the workforce; and
- strategies that help faculty and administrators in STEM teacher preparation programs to strengthen their partnerships with schools, districts, state education agencies, and policy agencies to increase retention of STEM teachers in the workforce.
2019 Noyce Summit Program Book
Event: Noyce Research Track 4 Grantee Workshop
Date: July 9, 2019
Location: AAAS, Washington, DC
Working Meeting: AAAS hosted a convening of Noyce Track 4: Research Principal Investigators who are catalyzing form a community of researchers. The Research Track of the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program offers awards to institutions, professional societies, and similar organizations that are directly associated with educational or research activities, to support planning, exploratory research, and research proposals that address the issue of STEM teacher effectiveness, persistence, or retention in high-need local educational agencies. Discussions focused on disseminating ARISE resources, as well as sharing lessons learned both from the Track 4 projects and the methodology being used by current Track 4 projects. Highlights were shared at the 2019 Noyce Summit.
Event: Focused Meeting – The Role of Teacher Preparation Programs in STEM Teacher Retention in the Workforce of High-Need School Districts
Date: May 6-8, 2019
Location: Washington, DC
Working Meeting: The meeting sought to explore and advance the role of teacher preparation programs in retention of STEM teachers in the workforce, particularly in high-need schools. More specifically, the objectives were to discover aspects (i.e., practices, policies, programmatic components) of teacher preparation programs that may contribute to increased and/or above average retention and generate a focused research agenda to encourage future attention to areas of greatest need regarding retention of STEM teachers. While there are many factors influencing a teachers’ decision to stay in positions for which they were prepared, this meeting focused attention on those factors which are directly in the control of teacher preparation programs or which may be meaningfully influenced by them. For the purposes of the meeting, retention is defined as 5 or more years in the K-12 STEM teacher workforce.
Speakers and Facilitator:
- Ed Fuller, Executive Director, Center for Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, The Pennsylvania State University
- Dan Goldhaber, Director of the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
- Richard Ingersoll, Board of Overseers Professor of Education and Sociology University of Pennsylvania
- Suzanne M. Wilson, Neag Endowed Professor of Teacher Education, University of Connecticut
- Peter Youngs, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia
Event: 2019 AERA Annual Meeting – Leveraging Education research in a Post-Truth Era
Date: April 5-9, 2019
Location: Toronto, CA
Panel Session: Stemming STEM Teacher Attrition: Implications from Evidence-Based Retention Efforts Across the Continuum for Preparation Programs, organized by Jennifer Carinci (AAAS) and featuring ARISE commissioned paper authors and AAAS staff, presented through the Science Teaching and Learning SIG. Over the past two decades, difficulty retaining enough, effective STEM teachers has been the national trend and primary cause of STEM teacher shortages, leading to concern for students’ future access to STEM sector’s quickly growing job demand and for America’s global competitiveness. Notwithstanding, the role of teacher preparation programs in STEM teacher retention is not clearly defined and practices associated with retention are understudied and underutilized. The work discussed in this symposium included: results of a study of beginning STEM teacher attrition in high-poverty schools, policy implications from extant literature on STEM teacher induction, evidence-based preparation program features associated with STEM teacher retention, and research questions to direct future efforts – particularly in preparing teachers to stay in high-need districts.
Event: AAAS 2019 Annual Meeting – Science Transcending Boundaries
Date: February 14-17, 2019
Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel and Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC
E-Poster Session: On February 15 at 2:10 pm, Jennifer Carinci (AAAS) presented Active Learning Pedagogy: Preparing STEM Students to Serve Traditionally Underserved, focused on evidence-based practices from our recent two-part webinar series focusing on inclusive practices to engage students with disabilities and of all abilities and on integrating culturally responsive active learning. View the e-poster.
ARISE Working Session Breakfast: Members of Section Q – Education of the American Association for the Advancement of Science were invited to participate in an engaging working session on February 17 at 8:00am, focused on sharing our ARISE effort and collecting and sharing information about topics and strategies for research and evidence-based approaches to understand effective ways to recruit, train, and retain a high-quality STEM teacher workforce.
Event: AAC&U – 2018 Transforming STEM Higher Education: Confirming the Authority of Evidence
Date: November 9 – 11, 2018
Location: Renaissance Denver Stapleton Hotel, Denver, CO
Poster: Dr. Quincy Brown (AAAS) presented a poster entitled Building a National Resource for STEM Preservice Education. The 2010 NRC report, Preparing Teachers: Building Evidence for Sound Policy, indicates that there is a consensus on the knowledge and skills that STEM teachers need but more research is needed to reach a consensus on what constitutes effective STEM teacher preparation, particularly as related to preparing STEM teachers who are effective in high-need schools. Furthermore, the NRC report, “A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas” (2012,) points out that “teachers are the linchpin in any effort to change K-12 science education” and to ensure student success in science. To that end, attendees were engaged in discussions around ARISE plans and the need for additional research on effective STEM teacher preparation including the programs and courses for prospective teachers. View poster.
Event: 2018 Noyce Summit – Towards a 2026 STEM Education: Implications of Convergent Science for K-12 STEM Teacher Preparation in the Face of Changing Student Demographics
Date: July 16-18, 2018
Location: Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
Annual Summit: Inspired by two recent reports arguing the need for convergence of knowledge across multiple disciplines (NSF Ten Big Ideas for Future Science Investments and the 2014 NAS report, Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond), the 2018 Noyce Summit explored Implications of Convergent Science for K-12 STEM Teacher Preparation. Read article.
2018 Noyce Summit Program Book
Event: NSF 2017 CISE Broadening Participation and Education in Computing (STEM+C) Meeting
Date: March 26-28, 2017
Location: Renaissance Denver Stapleton Hotel, Denver, CO
Meeting: Dr. Quincy Brown (AAAS) and Dr. Sandra Richardson (NSF) presented information about the Noyce program and ARISE project to STEM+C PIs and computer science education community members.
Event: Noyce Regional Summits
Date: May – June 2017
Location: West, Midwest, Southeast, Southwest, Northeast – USA
Meeting: To inform the ARISE effort and further goals, AAAS identified five current NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program grantees to host one-day regional dialogues on Advancing Research and Innovation in the STEM Education of Preservice Teachers in High-Need School Districts. Attendees included leaders from elementary, middle, and high schools; district and state education agencies; college and universities; and others who recruit, prepare, license and evaluate teachers. Current and former Noyce Scholars and Fellows were also invited to participate. AAAS staff presented an overview of the ARISE project to the 250 conference attendees. Presentations were followed by the premiere of Voices from the Field, a video highlighting Robert Noyce Teacher Scholars and Fellows. Noyce Scholars and Fellows featured in the video discussed their experiences. Participants identified issues most relevant or most pressing in their region and shared recommendations to strengthen STEM teacher preparation.
Event: Working Group Meeting
Date: June 22-23, 2016
Location: AAAS, Washington, DC
Working Meeting: Approximately 40 participants met in five working groups to discuss an area of preservice STEM teacher preparation, recruitment, and retention. Information gathered during the discussions became the basis for a set of ARISE commissioned papers.
