Welcome back to school and welcome to this first ever newsletter of Weber State’s Center for Science & Mathematics Education. If you’re receiving this via email, then we’ve had you on our old fashioned email list, now ported over to this platform on Substack. This allows for us to keep track of our lists and archive our news and resources. And hopefully it’s easier for you, too.
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Featured Event
We’re starting up our Teacher Twilight series on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 here on campus. We’ll welcome you inside with a quick orientation and then, while the weather is still good, we’ll tour the Discovery Loop here on campus, sharing both resources we can provide as well as exchanging ideas about how our students engage with place-based science phenomena.
All are welcome! View the full flier and register here:
And stay tuned for more Teacher Twilights through the year! Take a look at our calendar of anticipated dates and events.
News and Connections
Annual Meeting of UtSTA
The Utah Science Teaching Association annual conference is right down the road again this year, hosted at the Davis Conference Center on Friday, October 11. We hope to see many of you there for this annual reunion for so many of us — and a great collection of teacher resources and sharing. More details are available on their webpage and in their own social media. (The annual awards banquet will be hosted here in Tracy Hall, sponsored by Weber State’s College of Science.)
Get Social
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Resource Highlight
Speaking of book groups, you may have been here when we’d hosted Jess Cleeves’ Planning to Stay workshop last year, or you might have followed up afterwards saying you were interested in more discussion around her work and book. We’d love to host this and will follow up with you if you’d already expressed interest. Others are welcome, too — just reach out to Adam (ajohnston@weber.edu) and we’ll create that space for you.
But, probably there’s something else you’ve thought of that we haven’t yet. Is there another book group, program, endorsement course, math workshop, or similar that we should consider? Let us know where you think we can best support you.
Congratulations
Speaking of those we’ve supported, congratulations to the graduating class of new teachers and many veteran teachers as well. This included not only our Propel Scholars supported by the National Science Foundation and other science and math teaching majors, but our most recent cohort of Elementary Science Endorsement finishing in the spring of 2024. We’ll be looking to them to lead our new reforms in science education. Some of you have already taken on new roles in your schools, districts, and the state!
Reach out
Anything else you want to connect with us about? Reach out! And stay tuned for more news.
In the meantime, welcome back to school!
Adam
