Webinar Series
COVID-19 and Systemic Racism: Creating “A New Normal” for STEM Education
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The MƒA Equity Webinars Series invites nationally recognized educators to share ideas that support equity within STEM. Following an interactive presentation by the speaker, Master Teachers have the opportunity to discuss how these ideas might be applied in their own school environments in small groups. Teachers from MƒA, other Master Teacher programs, and people interested in learning more about MƒA are invited to attend.
The COVID-19 pandemic offers an unprecedented context to engage all students in societally relevant problems. This presentation proposes an instructional framework that STEM education, by foregrounding justice and capitalizing on new advances in STEM disciplines, could offer solutions to systematic racism. Specifically, our instructional framework leverages data science, computer science, and multidisciplinary convergence of STEM disciplines. By harnessing the affordances of new advances in STEM disciplines to address systemic racism, our instructional framework presents one approach to creating “a new normal” for STEM education.
Dr. Okhee Lee is a professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. Her research involves integrating science, language, and computational thinking with a focus on English learners. She was a member of the NGSS writing team and served as leader for the NGSS Diversity and Equity Team. She was also a member of the Steering Committee for the Understanding Language Initiative at Stanford University.