Organizer(s):

Margaret (Midge) Cozzens, DIMACS

Laura Sample McMeeking, Colorado State University

Fred Roberts, DIMACS

Andrea Weinberg, Colorado State University

Description

The aim of this workshop is to foster collaboration among individuals interested in improving PK-12, undergraduate, and graduate STEM Education. The broad disciplinary focus is the Management of Natural Resources, which includes challenges affecting food supplies, forests, and water.

Many challenges cut across the applied areas of water, forests, and food, and these areas in turn overlap each other. These challenges involve complex adaptive systems that interconnect natural systems with human ones, thus calling for understanding of both types of systems. Brief discussions of common features and overlapping mathematical and scientific topics will occur.

Participants will engage in open dialogue about how PK-12 educators, teacher preparation faculty, and STEM faculty can collaborate and engage with one another to enhance PK-20 STEM education.

PK-12 STEM Teachers, Educator Preparation Faculty, and STEM Faculty to will explore new and relevant ways to:

• Collaborate to advance PK-20 STEM education
• Improve student success in STEM disciplines
• Enhance PK-12 teacher preparation
• Highlight real-world application of STEM concepts
• Strengthen alignment of PK-12 and undergraduate STEM education
• Develop pathways to identify and replicate best practices to engage youth in STEM disciplines
• Discuss novel, multidisciplinary innovations for PK-12, undergraduate, and graduate STEM education

This is a collaborative, novel workshop experience like no other!

Call For Participation

Applications are due by April 29th, 2016. Selected participants will be notified by May 6th.

Primary workshop website

Workshop program

This workshop is organized by Colorado State University, presented under the auspices of the DIMACS Special Program: Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013+, with funding from DIMACS Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) at Rutgers University, CSU Noyce Scholarship Program, and CSU STEM Center. MPE aims to increase the contributions of the mathematical sciences community to protect our planet by strengthening connections with other disciplines; involving a broader community; and educating students and the general population about the relevance of the mathematical sciences.

Presented in association with the Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013+ Program.