SoCal Science Teachers
for Social Justice
Inaugural Conference 2023
January 14th @ CSUDH
Keynote speaker confirmed!
Dr. Greses Pérez, engineer, learning scientist, and assistant professor at Tufts University will be joining us in Jan! See her bio here.
Working lunch workshop speakers/facilitators confirmed!
Dr. Elexia Reyes McGovern, College of Education, CSUDH and Dr. Miguel Gutierrez, Chicano/Chicana Studies, CSUDH will be leading our ethnic studies work during lunch.
Guests Jimi Castillo, Tongva Spiritual Leader and Dr. Cheryl McKnight, Director, CSUDH American Indian Center will open our conference sharing about the Tongva nation's history on the land that CSUDH occupies.
SAT
01.14.23
9 AM - 3 PM
CSU Dominguez Hills
Loker Student Union
Thanks for Joining Us!
We will be updating the website with resources from presenters soon!
Poster presentations are already uploaded here!
Reimagining Sci Ed Resource Fair
Learn from fellow educators and researchers about how they are working to disrupt systems of oppression in science classrooms. Take away strategies, lessons, units, and community and more!
Ethnic Studies X Science
We are all ethnic studies teachers! Learn how to incorporate ethnic studies in the science classroom.
Fine-Tuning Workshop
Bring any lesson, unit, idea that you want to fine-tune and collaborate with other social-justice focused science educators to take it to the next level.
Our mission is to build teacher capacity in Southern California to design and enact science teaching for social justice and equity.
Across Southern California, there are science teachers that pursue justice and equity within their science classrooms. It seems to be the norm, though, that these science teachers operate alone or with a small group of allies, often not at the same school site or subject area. Through this conference, we aim to build an alliance of equity and justice minded science teachers, elementary, middle, and high school, to share resources, learn together, and support one another in our work around disrupting systems of racism and oppression that permeate our current educational system. We invite you to join us on Saturday, January 14th, 2023 in the heart of South Los Angeles at CSU Dominguez Hills for this conference.
Conference features:
Thematic structured poster sessions featuring practicing science teachers across Southern California sharing their curriculum units, activities, lessons, and pedagogy around social justice science teaching
Two keynote speakers (TBD), sharing their experiences and concrete ideas for how to engage students in social justice through your science classroom
Afternoon working session where teachers will organize into small groups to share their ideas around teaching social justice in a science classroom. Conference organizers will provide a structured way for attendees to present their work and get feedback.
Lunch and parking provided to all attendees and presenters
Conference registration. Registration for the conference is free. Registered attendees will receive periodic emails with updates on the conference and resources around social justice science teaching. So register early!
Call for proposals. Interested in sharing an activity or lesson at the conference? We are looking for elementary and secondary science teachers to present a poster of their work during our structured poster sessions.
We look forward to seeing you in January!
Organizing committee (alphabetical order):
Timothy Chang, Chemistry Teacher, Libra Academy at Linda Esperanza Marquez High School
Heather Clark, Post-doctoral researcher, University of California, Irvine
Sara Dozier, Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach
Jarod Kawasaki, Assistant Professor, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Art Li, Physiology and Environmental Science Teacher, Edward Royal Learning Center
Anna Murillo, Science Teacher, Math, Science and Technology Magnet Academy at Roosevelt High School
Christina Restrepo Nazar, Assistant Professor, California State University, Los Angeles