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Dear STEM Leaders,
I'm pleased to announce the release of NAPE's new toolkit,
Realizing Potential with Mindset, and the second edition of the
Explore STEM Careers toolkit.
NAPE's series of turnkey implementation toolkits provide research-grounded strategies and processes designed to equip educators with new tools to reach, teach, and guide every student to realize their potential. Activities and lesson plans within the series are intended to be tools for individual development and professional learning communities, and, in many cases, for direct use with students. Each of the toolkits serves as a workbook for an accompanying professional development workshop led by Certified Equity Instructors.
In addition,
in anticipation of the 2017 release of a toolkit on self-efficacy, we have developed two posters--"Believe You Can Succeed" and "Courage to Excel"--with actionable strategies for both educators and students to help educators inspire the courage to excel in their students.
Contact us to order your copies of
Realizing Potential with Mindset and
Explore STEM Careers and to schedule a corresponding professional development workshop for your faculty, staff, and counselors.
In access, equity, and diversity,
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NEW! The Realizing Potential with Mindset toolkit is designed to assist educators in transforming their practice to foster a growth mindset in themselves, and in their students. This toolkit provides an overview of growth mindset, including key characteristics, benefits, and strategies to employ in the classroom. Learn More
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UPDATED! The Explore STEM Careers toolkit provides a framework with lesson plans and activities to help counselors, teachers, and administrators to educate and inspire every student to consider a career in STEM. The second edition features new activities, updated content, and an improved format. Learn More
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COMING SOON! Inspire the Courage to Excel, to be released in early 2017, is designed to prepare educators to build student self-efficacy through intentional microaffirmations, provide actionable strategies for implementation in the classroom, and offer a turn-key coachable model for helping students build their own self-efficacy. Learn More
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Low Math Confidence Discourages Female Students from Pursuing STEM Disciplines
Maggie Kuo, Science Magazine
A recent study published by PLOS ONE supports what many educators have observed and earlier studies have documented: A lack of confidence in mathematical ability, not mathematical capability itself, is a major factor in dissuading female students from pursuing STEM.
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Calculus I Factors Women Out of STEM Degrees
Phys.org
It's no secret that Calculus I is a major hurdle in the quest for a science degree. But, according to a new paper by Colorado State University researchers, the class is far more likely to discourage women than men from continuing on in their chosen field. How much more likely? One-and-a-half times. And it doesn't take a math degree to spot that as a serious imbalance.
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The Girl Effect: In the Nexus of Literacy and STEM, Global Opportunity Emerges for Rural Girls
Mebane Rash, EdNC
EdNC is running a series of articles about the Partnership for Appalachian Girls' Education. The mission of PAGE is "to provide innovative learning opportunities for adolescent girls in Appalachia."
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GoldieBlox's New Kids App Aims to Inspire the Next Generation of Female Coders
Sarah Perez, Tech Crunch
GoldieBlox, the educational toy, book and game maker best known for its line of engineering toys aimed at young girls, is expanding its digital footprint today with the launch of its first paid application: GoldieBlox: Adventures in Coding.
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Women Aren't Actually Worse at Video Games: Why the Stereotype Is Harmful
Gretel Kauffman, Christian Science Monitor
Experts say that besides being untrue, the stereotype leads to a greater gender imbalance in the STEM fields.
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This Tool Gender-swapped the Voices of Tech Job Candidates. Here's What Happened.
Karen Turner, The Washington Post
When Aline Lerner worked as a tech recruiter, she saw a lot of biased hiring. "The kind of discrimination and bias I witnessed went beyond gender and race, though those are certainly palpable and very, very real. It was discrimination against people without pedigree as well," she said, mentioning that a prestigious university or previous experience at a big tech company seemed to matter more than technical ability.
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GST focuses on gender issues in and of science and technology, including engineering, construction and the built environment, and aims to explore the intersections of policy, practice and research.
Science House Professional Development Group at the Science Museum of Minnesota announced that iPAGE (PAGE for Informal STEM Institutions) has been formally recommended for funding by NSF though AISL and has an opening for a Professional Development Specialist on our team!
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