WWU’s CREST Project Transforms Professional Development | Heidi Smith, September 28, 2025, PEI Newlsetter
La Conner students test their underwater robots (Skagit Valley Herald | Feb 15, 2025 | Facebook post | Facebook reel)
La Conner fifth graders build underwater robots (La Conner Community News | Feb 19, 2025)
New NSF-Funded Research Project at WWU Explores Equitable Science Education in Whatcom and Skagit Counties. | Feb 21, 2024 John. Thompson.
Teachers Put Culturally Responsive Learning into Immediate Practice after CREST Workshop | Heid Smith, PEI
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Voss, S., Melton, J. & Hanuscin, D. (2026, April 19-22) Teacher Adaptations to Curriculum as a Window into Culturally Responsive Instruction: A Case Study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). Seattle, WA.
Hanuscin, D. (2026, April 15-18). Culturally responsive teaching - Engineering since time immemorial. NSTA National Conference on Science Education. Anaheim, CA.
Yates, C., Blanning, G., Gonzalez-Serna, K., & Shoemaker, K. (2026, April 15-18) Insights From Implementing The Engineering Design Process In An Ocean Tech Unit With Elementary Students. NSTA National Conference on Science Education. Anaheim, CA.
Melton, J., Voss, S., & Hanuscin, D. (2026, April 8-12) Responding to Teacher Needs in a Research-practice Partnership. In M. Kevelson (Chair), Surfacing Teacher Learning Needs from the Ground Up: Research-Practice Partnerships to Cultivate Innovative Practices [Symposium]. Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Los Angeles, CA.
Melton, J., Voss, S., & Hanuscin, D. (2026, April 8-12).Using Teacher Experiences to Examine Complexities of Culturally Responsive Instruction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Los Angeles, CA.
Hanuscin, D., Melton, J., Voss, S., & CREST Participants. (2025, October 25). Explore the Salish Sea: Engineering Science Time Immemorial. Washington Science Teachers Association annual conference. Tacoma, WA.
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Hanuscin, D. & Voss, S. (2025, June 8-11) Culturally Responsive Elementary Science Teaching. Poster Presented at the NSF CADRE DRK12 PI Meeting. Washington, DC.
Voss, S., & Melton, J. (2025, March 23-26) Braiding Western science and Indigenous ways of knowing in elementary science. Symposium sponsored by the Indigenous Science Knowledge RIG. NARST. National Harbor, MD.
Hanuscin, D. (2025, March 26-29) Relevant, Responsive, Sustaining, or…? Clarifying Culture-Informed Pedagogies. Poster presented at the NSTA National Conference on Science Education, Philadelphia, PA.
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Hanuscin, D. Voss, S. , & Melton J. (2025, January 10-13 ) Elementary Teachers’ Conceptions of Culturally Responsive Science Teaching. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Science Teacher Education. New Orleans, LA.
Hanuscin, D., Melton, J., & Lutz, M. (2024, March) Explore the Salish Sea: Culturally Responsive Elementary Science Teaching. Poster presented at the NSTA National Conference on Science Education. Denver, CO, USA.
Lutz, M. (2023, November) How will teachers elevate culturally responsive science teaching with an estuarine science curriculum? Poster presentation at the 27th Biennial Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Conference. Portland, Oregon, USA.