[LTER-education] Resources on broadening participation in STEM

[Marty Downs]

Dear LTER Education/Outreach Committee, Diversity Committee, project
managers--
The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (now rebranding as
the organization "Informal Science") recently released a toolkit for
broadening participation in STEM.

https://www.informalscience.org/broadening-perspectives

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 *Cultural Norms of Science
<https://www.informalscience.org/sites/default/files/BP-4-Cultural-Norms.pdf>
*practice
brief or their *How Can Institutions Model Inclusion
<https://www.informalscience.org/sites/default/files/BP-10-Workplace-Inclusion.pdf>
*
brief.

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.

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?

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.

Cheers, Marty
-- 
Marty Downs (she/her/hers)
Deputy Director, LTER Network Communications Office



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