SAVE THE DATE: STEM EdCamp
Mar
3
11:00 AM11:00

SAVE THE DATE: STEM EdCamp

Where: Commack School District

Cedar Road School

170 Cedar Road

East Northport, NY, 11731

The STEM EdCamp conference is participant- driven with the sessions developed and facilitated by the teachers who are attending.  Come with something you want to share, or just attend to learn. EdCamp provides access to high quality, personalized professional learning for all educators by embracing the belief that fellow educators can be some of the most valuable professional development resources for their colleagues.

Participants must register in advance even though the event is FREE. Please note that lunch will be provided for FREE also! REGISTRATION DETAILS TO FOLLOW CLOSER TO THE EVENT.

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SAVE THE DATE(S): Professional Development with Professor Philip Bell
Feb
4
to Feb 5

SAVE THE DATE(S): Professional Development with Professor Philip Bell

Where: Western Suffolk BOCES, Wheatley Heights

February 4th (8:30-3:30) is dedicated to elementary teachers and February 5th (8:30-3:30) to secondary teachers.

More information to follow!

Professor Bell Bio: (from https://education.uw.edu/people/faculty/pbell)

Philip Bell is a professor of the Learning Sciences & Human Development and holds the Shauna C. Larson Chair in Learning Sciences. He is executive director of the UW Institute for Science & Math Education focused on equity-focused innovation in K-12 STEM education, and he is co-director of the Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE) Science of Learning Center. Bell pursues a cognitive and cultural program of research across diverse environments focused on how people learn in ways that are personally consequential to them. He has studied everyday expertise and cognition in science and health, the design and use of novel learning technologies in science classrooms, youth argumentation, culturally expansive science instruction, and scaled implementation of educational improvement. Bell served as a member of the Board on Science Education with the National Academy of Sciences for eight years, co-chaired the National Research Council consensus report effort on Learning Science in Informal Environments and served on the committee of the NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education that was used to guide development of Next Generation Science Standards. He has a background in human cognition and development, science education, computer science, and electrical engineering.

Bell is also currently editing a series of research- and practice-based tools for science education called STEM Teaching Tools. The effort is providing resources for equity-focused improvements in science education. 

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LISTEMELA Annual Conference
Dec
4
7:45 AM07:45

LISTEMELA Annual Conference

KEYNOTE: MICHAEL SOSKIL

CONNECTED CLASSROOMS AND THE NEW WORLD OF LEARNING

As our world and our workplaces become more globally connected, our schools must adapt. In this inspiring keynote, we will examine incredible examples of children using global connections to change their world for the better, and explore how our schools can remain relevant by providing opportunities for student to learn with others from different locations, different backgrounds, and different cultures. Those in attendance will learn how free tools make it easy to bring the world into classrooms, engage students, and increase learning outcomes.

Bio: Michael Soskil, the 2017-2018 Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year, is determined to make learning meaningful for every child and to empower students and teachers as positive change agents in their communities. As an elementary STEM teacher he has inspired students to find solutions to problems in their local and global communities. As a speaker and professional learning facilitator he has helped educators around the world create opportunities for students to use learning to impact their world. For his innovative work, Michael was named one of the top-10 teachers in the world and a finalist for the Global Teacher Prize by Dr. Stephen Hawking in 2016. He also is a recipient of the US Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching in 2012. The book that Michael co-authored, Teaching in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, has been translated into multiple languages and heralded by leaders in education, business, and government as "an authoritative guide to teaching practice over the next three decades."

SPONSOR: TEQ

Attendee Registration (please see page 3 for electronic registration and payment instructions)

Vendor Registration (please email conference@listemela.org for additional information).

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May
30
11:00 AM11:00

STEMEdCamp

The STEM EdCamp conference is participant- driven with the sessions developed and facilitated by the teachers who are attending.  Come with something you want to share, or just attend to learn. EdCamp provides access to high quality, personalized professional learning for all educators by embracing the belief that fellow educators can be some of the most valuable professional development resources for their colleagues.

Participants must register in advance even though the event is FREE. To register, please click here. Please note that lunch will be provided for FREE also!

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Professional Development: Liz Mirra
Oct
16
8:00 AM08:00

Professional Development: Liz Mirra

Free PD opportunity for science leaders that are LISTEMELA members. Please contact Kristen Cummings, LISTEMELA President, at kcummings@farmingdaleschools.org for more information. The membership form is shown above if you need to renew or join; feel free to bring your check and form to the workshop if your attendance to the PD is confirmed.

Flyer can be found here. Link to registration can be found here.

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Nov
13
8:00 AM08:00

SCIMEX Fall Conference

When:

Monday, November 13th, 2017

Where:

Cresthollow Country Club

 
 

Time:

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Workshop Descriptions

Conference Registration Form

Workshop Signup Registration

SAVE THE DATE

Once again, LISTEMELA will be sponsoring its annual Fall Conference at the Crest Hollow Country Club on Monday, November 13, 2017.  We are excited to announce that McGraw Hill Education is sponsoring this year’s Keynote speaker, Page Keeley.  Page Keeley, M.Ed. is a nationally-renowned expert on science formative assessment and teaching for conceptual change. She is the author of several award-winning books and journal articles on uncovering student thinking using formative assessment probes and techniques. She was the Science Program Director at the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance for 16 years where she directed projects in the areas of leadership, standards-based curriculum and instruction, formative assessment, professional development design, and instructional coaching. She has directed several major

National Science Foundation–funded projects and is a past President of the National Science Teachers Association. Currently she is an independent consultant providing professional development to school districts and science education organizations and a frequent invited speaker at national conferences. In addition, to our keynote and breakout sessions, we will have the SCIMEX Vendor Showcase with the newest STEM related materials for you to see and take home. 

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Jan
27
12:00 PM12:00
conference

AP Math & Science Unconference (FREE!)

When:

Friday, January 27, 2017

Where:

Hauppauge High School
500 Lincoln Blvd, Hauppauge, NY 11788

Time: 

12:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Cost:

FREE

Download the flyer here.

LISTEMELA and NCAMS Present:

AP Math & Science Unconference

We invite you to take advantage of this opportunity to network with other Long Island AP teachers. AP Sessions will be offered in Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physics I/II and Physics C, Calculus AB/BC, Statistics, Computer Science A, Computer Science Principles. 

Please join colleagues from across Long Island to:

  • Share successful labs and inquiry-­‐based activities
  • Discuss the curriculum changes that have taken place
  • Share strategies to prepare students for the AP exam
  • Share ideas as to how to increase enrollment in AP courses and how to encourage students to persevere
  • Discuss anything that is of interest to the participants

We suggest that you bring a device to facilitate sharing.

Light refreshments will be served.

Please register at this link:

https://goo.gl/forms/0CKDwKmc5q9USVMR2

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