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    Film as a Powerful Tool for Increasing Awareness of the Importance of Belonging in STEM
    People of color in STEM fields can face a variety of challenges with belonging due to structural, cultural, psychological, and institutional barriers. The professional development sessions...

    Keywords: steminclusionfilmbelonging

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    Example Poster
    This is just an example.
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    STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Universal Design for Learning Recording
    Video recordings (with captions), transcript, and chat for the STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Universal Design for Learning.
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    STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Episode 3
    Episode 3 builds from Kelisa Wing's recent blog post calling for educators to hold themselves accountable for dismantling racial oppression.
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    For a Racially-Just, Inclusive, Open, STEM education: The RIOS Institute imagines an Open Education as the radical idea that education should be affordable, accessible, equitable, inclusive, and relevant to everyone
    As we engage in Open STEM Education, “Open for Whom?” becomes an increasingly urgent question. Why should we invest in an education that is free, if it does not attend to the inclusion of...

    Keywords: social justiceriosNABT 2022

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    Making Change Sustainable: Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education (NIBLSE) Meeting Review
    The purpose of the meeting described in this review was to decide how best to ensure the sustainability of the Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Science Education (NIBLSE; pronounced...

    Keywords: meetingsustainabilityfmnNIBLSEincubator

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    STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Socially Relevant Teaching in the Time of COVID-19
    Presents various mathematical modeling and data science activities created around analyzing and interpreting COVID-19 data. Much of the instructional guidance provided for the activities and...

    Keywords: quantitativemathidigbiodata literacywebinarEDSINBLUEscorecovidSTEMitp

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    Scientist Spotlights: Integrating Themes of Diversity and Inclusion with Course Content
    The Scientist Spotlights Initiative empowers middle/high school, college, and university science educators to implement inclusive curricula that help ALL students see themselves in science.

    Keywords: communitydiversityinclusivity

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    Evaluation Findings for EDSIN OEC Program
    Evaluation findings from interviews with fellows, mentors and staff of the 2019-20 EDSIN OEC Fellows Program

    Keywords: evaluationoecSTEM Evaluation

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    Developing Quantitative Skills in Your Courses Using HHMI BioInteractive Resources
    This workshop will focus on how HHMI BioInteractive resources and inclusive teaching practices can be used to increase students’ quantitative literacy and confidence working with data. A...
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    Literature Review: Inclusive Calculus for Life Sciences
    We believe that a biology-relevant calculus experience (biocalculus) can help overcome many of these issues in calculus. While challenging to build the capacity for teaching courses, students in...

    Keywords: calculusbiocalculusidentityInclusive teachingcalculus epistemology

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    Faculty Mentoring Networks for Botany Faculty Professional Development
    Poster presented at the 2019 Botanical Society of America conference.

    Keywords: professional developmentbotanyfmn

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    Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps
    Organized Oral Session at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting, August 8th, 2017 Portland Oregon.

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    Small Organisms with Big Consequences: Understanding the Microbial World Around Us
    Creating a hands-on lab that conveys important information while simultaneously allowing for student autonomy can be difficult. This is particularly true for the field of microbiology, in which...

    Keywords: disease transmissionmicrobiologymicrobiomeliterature reviewPeer reviewPathogensHealth and WellnessThe Scientific Method

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    Using Collaborative Projects to Promote Active Learning of Microbial Skin Diseases and Their Impact on Everyday Lives
    One of the most daunting aspects of introductory clinical microbiology is learning details about a vast number of different microbial diseases that can infect humans. Each of these diseases has...

    Keywords: infectious diseasecollaborationpathogenesisTreatment of diseasesReal-life Microbiology

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    The ADW: a database of animal natural history that supports complex, authentic student inquiry.
    Poster on the Animal Diversity Web and Quaardvark presented at the 2020 BIOME Institute: Cultivating Scientific Curiosity

    Keywords: animal diversityundergraduate researchnatural historyAnimal Diversity Web

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    Closing the Gap in the Open Educational Resources (OER) Life Cycle with HHMI BioInteractive Resources
    This poster was presented at the HHMI BioInteractive Educator Professional Development Conference in 2018. It details the HHMI BioInteractive site on QUBES and the resources published by educators...

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveHHMI Biointeractive Faculty Mentoring NetworkAdapted teaching materials

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    An Active Learning Workshop to Teach Active Learning Strategies
    College instructors who learn how to teach actively at the beginning of their careers do not have to modify deeply set habits that rely on lectures. Instead, they develop their teaching while they...

    Keywords: professional developmentActive-learning strategiesjigsawthink-pair-sharePedagogical approachesGallery WalkSmall group discussionInclusive practices

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    Expanding the Reach of Crop Plants for Food Security: A Lesson Integrating Non-Majors Students Into the Discussion of Food Diversity and Human Nutrition
    University general education (GE) courses host students with various academic backgrounds, interests, and perspectives. Engaging students in GE classes with agricultural issues can be challenging...

    Keywords: cereal graincrop diversitycrop yieldglobal food systemhuman nutritionnutrient qualitypseudocereal grainstaple cropunderutilized crop

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    STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Fixed vs Growth Mindset and Why the Biggest Challenge May be Faculty (Episode Seven)
    This webinar will explore how faculty can teach with a growth mindset and identify some potential areas of fixed mindset that might prove to be obstacles for many students.

    Keywords: growth mindsetfaculty developmentDiversity and Inclusionfaculty mindset

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