<div dir="ltr">Marty and others:<div>Marty, thank you for sharing the CAISE resources. The Hubbard Brook annual meeting is coming up in July and I am building our annual HBR Education and Outreach Committee meeting agenda around these topics. I have been planning to use some of these resources to help structure the conversation, but that's about as far as we are in the process at this point. I'd love to hear from folks from other sites who might have held similar meetings or are interested in hearing how ours goes! We have a planning meeting coming up this Friday and the annual EOC meeting for Hubbard Brook is on July 11. </div><div>Warm wishes from (buggy) New Hampshire,</div><div>Sarah</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Sarah Garlick<div>Director of Science Policy and Outreach</div><div>Hubbard Brook Research Foundation</div><div><a href="https://hubbardbrook.org/hubbard-brook-research-foundation" target="_blank">https://hubbardbrook.org/hubbard-brook-research-foundation</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>603-986-0686 office/cell</div><div><a href="mailto:sgarlick@hubbardbrookfoundation.org" target="_blank">sgarlick@hubbardbrookfoundation.org</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:24 PM Marty Downs <<a href="mailto:downs@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">downs@nceas.ucsb.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear LTER Education/Outreach Committee, Diversity Committee, project managers--<div>The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (now rebranding as the organization "Informal Science") recently released a toolkit for broadening participation in STEM. <br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><a href="https://www.informalscience.org/broadening-perspectives" target="_blank">https://www.informalscience.org/broadening-perspectives</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I know that many Schoolyard LTER programs already practice quite a few of these principles, but as I glanced through the practice briefs that are included in the toolkit, I thought they might be useful site-wide conversation-starters. See, for example, their <i><a href="https://www.informalscience.org/sites/default/files/BP-4-Cultural-Norms.pdf" target="_blank">Cultural Norms of Science</a> </i>practice brief or their <i><a href="https://www.informalscience.org/sites/default/files/BP-10-Workplace-Inclusion.pdf" target="_blank">How Can Institutions Model Inclusion</a> </i>brief.</div><div><br></div><div>I was about to just forward the toolkit with a message to that effect for site-exec teams (and I'm still happy to do that), but I thought it might also be an opportunity for the diversity committee (or diversity and education together) to get some visibility with PIs and exec teams.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there any interest in coordinating cross-site discussions on the topic? Or recommending within-site discussions first (at exec team or all-hands meetings) and then following up with broader discussions?</div><div><br></div><div>In any event, we'll post a description and links to the tool kit on the Network web site (in the diversity resources section) and if I don't get some interest in the next few days, I'll send it around -- then we can pick up on the idea of a broader discussion after the field season.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, Marty</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-5297508250267770040gmail-m_5990770047724654042gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">Marty Downs (she/her/hers)</span><div style="font-size:small">Deputy Director, LTER <span style="font-size:12.8px">Network Communications Office</span></div><div style="font-size:small"><br><img src="https://drive.google.com/a/nceas.ucsb.edu/uc?id=1qFadGx0hEm04xFRLFpVFxBUSEQk5T4c4&export=download" width="200" height="37"><br><br><a href="https://lternet.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://lternet.edu</a><br></div><div style="font-size:small">t: @USLTER</div><div style="font-size:small">f: USLTER</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)</span><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Santa Barbara</span><br style="font-size:12.8px">Office: 805-893-7549</div><div style="font-size:small">Cell: 617-833-7930</div><div style="font-size:small"><a href="mailto:downs@nceas.ucsb.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">downs@nceas.ucsb.edu</a></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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