Cultural Perspective of STEM Education: Leaping the Cycle Forward
Barriers and solutions from the 4 perspectives: 1) Black women in STEM. 2) What women in STEM 3) First-generation college students. 4) the dominant group (mainly white men). Review the Jamboard results and see how these fantastic participants laid it all out, including some solutions!
Results from live, in-session polls
What solutions we can address in our own classrooms?
- Teach your students to fight for their beliefs
- LISTEN, address, and correct while still providing a nurturing and educating environment (Kinder)
- Set an environment that makes them feel comfortable talking to you . Building anrelationship.
- Destroy stereotypes by inviting URM speakers and sponsoring mentors with my students.
- Provide an class that all are ACCEPTED!
- Listen more and take their ideas and thoughts into consideration. Build that trust
- Creating mentoring chances
- Making sure to represent all of our students’ backgrounds and show their voices.
- Building relationships and mentorships
- Co-generative dialogs with learners
How can we share our knowledge with our peers on our respective campuses?
- Listen to the learners.
- Invite speakers on diversity
- Continuing to being willing to collaborate, but also to EDUCATE.
- Town Halls on campuses to discuss our perspectives.
- Having conversations and surround yourself with a diverse group of people.
- PLC
- Lead a lunch session about cultural perspectives in STEM
- During our PLCs.
- Listen to non-dominant groups
Integrating Coding into Astronomy Remotely
Integrating Coding Into Astronomy Remotely talk for Texas CSTA Chapter Virtual Conference 2021. Saturday, February, 13.
See the project page for more information and code.
SEEC 2021

Check out our SEEC 2021 presentation and equivalent-width spectroscopy lab activity Also visit the project webpage for a lot more info. There is also a coding version of the lab as well.
AAS 237 iPoster Session 547-01 Remote Astronomy Labs for High School Students

Come visit me on the AAS 237 Slack channel (547_education_outreach_and_public_engagement) on Friday starting at 3:10 CST to discuss my iPoster – Remote Astronomy Labs for High School Students. More information is available on the project webpage.
AAPT WM21 – C1.2 – 1388 – Teaching Astronomy Remotely with Coding Activities
- Monday, January 11, 2021
- 9:30am – 10:45am
- https://underline.io/events/68/posters?eventSessionId=1856

Use Desmos to find a star’s mass
InOMN
International Observe the Moon Night 2020! From 7:15 pm to 8:30 pm I will host a live virtual lunar observing party for the Bellaire High School community. The district restrictions on our video conferencing software make it hard to produce a publicly available event but I will try. We will use Microsoft Teams and hopefully this link will work for visitors.
More information about the moon from Houston on September 26th.
Talk on Research Experiences for Teachers as Professional Development
Video link: https://youtu.be/c9PAwutbgfU
AAS 236 iPoster Session – Teaching with Code: Globular Cluster Distance Lab
Check out my iPoster for the 236th meeting of the American Astronomical Society! It’s my first iPoster. There is also a separate page dedicated to the project as well.
