science educators for equity, diversity, & Social justice

WORKSHOP (60 min*) - Concepts, activities and/or pedagogical strategies 
The intention of the workshop format is to engage participants via interactive practice and/or immersion in an experience involving the use of new methods, strategies, and/or ideas for active social justice work in their own settings. Proposals should include an explanation of how the work challenges the status quo and creates expanded spaces for equity, diversity, and/or social justice in science education.

Possible formats:

• Activism Workshop: Engages participants in practices and/or strategies for conducting activist work in educational contexts, including formal or informal learning contexts (e.g., critical participatory action research, environmental justice projects)

• Research/Practice Workshop: Engages participants in discussions and activities about how to apply frameworks, practices, and conceptual/methodological ideas in participants’ local contexts (e.g., research writing, critical race theory, culturally sustaining pedagogy, cultural historical activity theory)

• Performance: Artistic expressions that provoke audiences to engage affectively with ideas, practices, etc. at the intersection of science education, equity, diversity and/or social justice (e.g., spoken word, dramatic performance, exhibit, video/multimedia)

*While workshops are generally 60 minutes for scheduling reasons, feel free to indicate a preference for a longer workshop by adding a Longer Workshop Request (<100 words) to your proposal, explaining why 90 minutes would be preferable for your session if our schedule can allow it.

Proposal Development Requirements: Workshop Block

Proposals should address the following in 750 words or less:

1. Learning Goals

   • What will you do in your workshop?

   • What will participants learn and/or experience?

2. Design

   • How will you engage participants? Please be specific. 

   • Provide an agenda for your workshop with time allocated to various activities.

3. Participants

   • Who should attend and why? 

   • How will this workshop further define or address issues of equity, diversity and/or social justice in science education?