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Inclusive SciComm 2019 Knowledge-Building Report

This report summarizes findings of an NSF conference grant designed to support the knowledge-building component of the 2019 Inclusive SciComm Symposium (ISCS). Specifically, this document describes symposium participants' motivations for attending the symposium, the symposium's effectiveness in achieving participants' desired outcomes, and participants' attitudes, behaviors, and self-efficacy related to critical dialogue, or difficult conversations across difference. The report also summarizes participants' perceived needs, challenges, and opportunities for advancing inclusive, equitable, and
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sunshine Menezes Hollie Smith Kayon Murray-Johnson Hannah Trautmann Mehri Azizi
resource research Higher Education Programs

Support Systems for Scientists' Communication and Engagement Workshop III: Academic Institutions - Landscape Overview of University Systems and People Supporting Scientists in their Public Engagement Efforts

Scientists (and engineers) wishing to conduct public engagement do so in the context of established disciplinary norms and complex institutional systems that may support or limit their success. This report seeks to convey the known complexity, unique challenges, and opportunities for universities to better support for scientists in their public engagement work. The report is intended to drive discussion towards deeper exploration and development of actionable next steps. This is a report from Workshop III: Academic Institutions, part of the Support Systems for Scientists' Communication and
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TEAM MEMBERS: Julie Risien Roberta Nilson Brooke Smith
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

Building Capacity for Research-Practice Partnerships: Needs and Strategies

Improving STEM education in and out of schools depends on the collaborative efforts of educators, policy makers, education researchers, and community leaders. One promising strategy for structuring such collaborations is research-practice partnerships (RPPs) that bring researchers and educators together for sustained joint work around a key problem of practice of mutual concern. In June 2014, the Research + Practice (R+P) Collaboratory held two workshops focused on building capacity for research-practice partnerships in conjunction with the 11th International Conference of the Learning
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TEAM MEMBERS: Annie Allen K. Davidson
resource research Public Programs

Impact of the Maker Movement: Developed by Deloitte Center for the Edge and Maker Media from the Maker Impact Summit Dec. 2013

This report from the 2013 Maker Impact Summit proposes ways in which the future economic and social landscape will be shaped by the Maker Movement.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Maggie Wool
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

STEM Learning is Everywhere: Summary of a Convocation on Building Learning Systems

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) permeate the modern world. The jobs people do, the foods they eat, the vehicles in which they travel, the information they receive, the medicines they take, and many other facets of modern life are constantly changing as STEM knowledge steadily accumulates. Yet STEM education in the United States, despite the importance of these subjects, is consistently falling short. Many students are not graduating from high school with the knowledge and capacities they will need to pursue STEM careers or understand STEM-related issues in the
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TEAM MEMBERS: Steve Olson Jay Labov National Research Council