Leadership Development in Practice

"When we treat teacher leadership as a tool for fixing the critical challenges facing education and we measure its effect on those challenges, then teacher leadership becomes more than a nice idea. It becomes an indispensable avenue for school improvement and for building a high-performing, sustainable teaching force for the next generation. " Coggins, C., & Mcgovern, K. (2014). Five goals for teacher leadership. The Phi Delta Kappan, 95(7), 15–21.

NSTA ATLANTA 2023

4 proposals were accepted to NSTA conference (2 poster sessions and 2 group presentations)

Poster Share-A-Thon

How to STEMify your science Labs

Friday, Mar 24, 2023

Technology tools to keep as we leave the pandemic behind

Sat, Mar 25, 2023

Presentation

Demystifying ELLs/EBs in the science classroom

Sat, Mar 25, 2023

Incorporating the right level of inquiry in your classroom

Friday, Mar 24, 2023

SUMMER 2023

Empowering Education: Harnessing the Power of AI for 21-st Century Classrooms

Unleash the potential of your teaching and build a robust toolkit with the power of AI. This interactive session will explore transformative AI tools while showing you how to seamlessly integrate them into your lessons. Enhance student engagement, streamline assessment, and elevate learning with AI-generated questions and personalized feedback. The focus of the session is to empower teachers to innovate, aligning tech with educational standards for a dynamic, future-forward classroom.

Date: June 14th, General Sessions

Location: Rice University BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC)

2023 Summer: Texas Leadership Initiative For Inquiry Science Teaching Leadership Conference

Gamify Your Classroom

Game-based learning is a teaching method that uses games and other interactive playful activities to engage students and help them learn. Learn how to use game-based learning as a useful tool for teaching complex or abstract concepts in science (Grades K-12)

Date: June 15th, Room 286

Location: Rice University BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC)

November 2022

Presented the following sessions at CAST 2022

Thursday (11/10)

How to STEMify your science labs
Incorporating the right level of inquiry in your classrooom

Friday (11/11)

Inquiry in Chemistry: Lessons and Strategies

I loved collaborating with other fellows from TLIIST. The Friday session was a 2 hours session but it was packed with interesting chemistry lessons that we shared with other teachers. I plan to use some of the lessons and activities in my own classroom.

October 2022

District Focus Meeting #2

Co-presented on Levels of Inquiry in STEM presentation in the Pasadena ISD Science District Meeting to both Science and Math Teachers

We received an average on a scale of 1-5 on the following

4.7 on "I feel comfortable implementing the content I learned in this session"

4.9 on "The presenter was knowledgeable and helpful"

February 2021

I volunteered to judge Science Fair projects for the Science and Engineering Fair of Houston. It was great to see how resilient students were and how persistent they were in creating their projects. After individually scoring their presentation reports and slides, I was also be to see their presentations through video. The last portion of my volunteering experience consisted of collaborating with other Chemistry judges on finalizing our top 3 choices. It was my first time volunteering for this event and I hope to volunteer again Face to Face.

June 2021

In 2021, I co-wrote 4 session proposals with Faryal Shaukat and they were all accepted for CAST in November 2021. Unfortunately, due to lack of funding, we were unable to travel to Fort Worth. Before this, I was able to volunteer for CAST by reviewing other proposals and it gave me some insight to what other science teachers in the state were doing to engage students in science. Fortunately, CAST is conducting a Virtual Conference in 2022 and I will be co-presenting on the following sessions

Demystifying ELLs in the science classroom

Technology tools to keep as we leave the pandemic behind

CCISD Science Judge Volunteer

In January 2021, I volunteered to Judge both Elementary and High School science projects. I volunteered to gain some insight into the scientific minds of elementary and middle school students since I have only ever taught high school. I was very impressed with the students in this district and their hard work despite having to do their entire project through an online formal due to the pandemic. I was also able to gain some experience in collaborating with other teachers on criteria for determining a good science fair project score. I hope to judge again in person.

Conference for the Advancement of Science Teachers (CAST) Online Reimagined

October 2020

In 2020, CAST was moved online as the COVID-19 Pandemic started. We were all determined to still learn from one another. We presented once again on how to "STEMify your Science Labs" but with some pointers on how to move onto doing labs during pandemic. We were also able to utilize our PD online skills as we had to make our presentation into a video for other teachers to view.

In September 2020, Remelia Arpino, another one of our TLIIST fellows, and Chetan, a fellow RET colleague and I collaborated on a presentation on Conducting Laboratory Investigations in a Virtual Classroom to the Commission of Higher Education in the Philippines through Zoom. Once again, we utilized our presentations skills we learned through TLIIST in the summer to give a live presentation on Zoom as we also simulatenouly broadcast on Facebook for everyone to see. I love this presentation due to the collaborating nature of it since this was extremely important in the pandemic. Teachers cannot do everything alone and one main thing learned was to help one another in anyway possible. We helped each other by co-presenting and sharing our knowledge on conducting online labs. I shared my expertise in online labs through the modeling program that I was able to attend for free through our NSF TLIIST program.

Conference for the Advancement of Science Teachers (CAST) in Dallas, TX

November 23, 2019

Presented how to "STEMify your Science Labs". As part of TLIIST, we are proud members for Science Teachers Association of Texas (STAT) and plan to continue working with other educators in the Texas science community.

Western Regional Noyce Conference in Portland, Oregon

February 22, 2020

Presented on "Integrating the Right Level of Inquiry in your STEM classroom"

Part of our training in TLIIST in Summer 2019, was integrating ourselves in learning about 3 types of inquiry: Structured, Guided and Open. Through activities, we were able to see the differences in each type of inquiry and how it could be integrated in our classrooms.

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