[LTER-education] Resources on broadening participation in STEM

[Sarah Garlick]

Marty and others:
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.
Warm wishes from (buggy) New Hampshire,
Sarah

-- 
Sarah Garlick
Director of Science Policy and Outreach
Hubbard Brook Research Foundation
https://hubbardbrook.org/hubbard-brook-research-foundation

603-986-0686 office/cell
sgarlick at hubbardbrookfoundation.org


On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:24 PM Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> 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
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