UTeach STEM Educators Conference

Opening Session: Modernizing the STEM Educator Workforce

Sessions

• Harnessing our Power and Purpose: A Discussion of (Mis)alignments in STEM Education

• UTRGV UTeach Alumni-Led Innovation: Sid Richardson Grant Success and TI Technology in Math & Science

• What You think Classroom Management Is and What We Fail to Emphasize

• From Pipeline to Practice: How Spartans Teach Builds an Ecosystem for Future STEM Educators

• Game-Based Early Field Experiences: Exploring the Viability with Point Salad and Qwixx

• An Artificial Intelligence Playground

• Seeing Teaching Together: Using “Learning Labs” to Build Shared Pedagogical Vision

• From Springs to Slope: Empowering Middle School Math Students for Future Math Classes

• AI in Higher Education: Enhancing Instruction and Productivity

• Lights, Camera, Recruit: Using Video Storytelling to Recruit STEM Teachers

• What Moves Them to Teach? Identifying Motivational Drivers in Prospective Math and Science Teachers

• Teacher Agency Matters: Implications for STEM Teacher Preparation and Retention

• From Frizzle to the Field: How We Recognize Good Teaching

• Optimizing Residencies for Secondary STEM Candidates

Plus a special pre-conference session for students, facilitated by students from teachHOUSTON: Too Shy to Talk? Networking Workshop for Authentic Connections.

Sessions

• Better Together: Creating, Organizing, and Sustaining Student-Led Spaces to Foster Connection

• Strengthening Partnerships with Schools, Teachers, and Students at CalTeach Berkeley

• Elevate Together: Bi-Directional Feedback in Secondary STEM Co-Teaching

• Behind the Paperwork: Rethinking Field Supervision Documentation

• Strengthen & Support Your Program & Alumni with the PD and Induction Working Group

• Managing Resistant to Change Behaviors? An Approach That Works!

• Promoting Inquiry and Enhancing Recruitment with STEM Night Activities

• Fill Your STEM Teacher Toolbox: High-Impact Strategies You Can Use Tomorrow

• Giving ELLs a Voice: Chat Mats and High-Impact Strategies for Emergent Bilinguals

• License to Code: Using TI Rovers to Bring Triangle Geometry to Life

• From Nobel Prize to Classroom: Understanding and Evaluating AI in STEM Education

• Creating a Rich Tapestry of Math Connections from ES to the University: Weaving Math Threads in FM

• Using AI Agents for PlaBetter Together: Creating, Organizing, and Sustaining Student-Led Spaces to Foster Connection

• Disrupting the Disengagement Cycle

• Designing for Purpose: Implementing Project-Based STEM Learning with Scale Factor and 3D Printing

• STEM Explorations: A Personalized Field-Hour Pathway in STEM Teacher Preparation

• From Discomfort to Dialogue: Supporting Student-Driven Critical Conversations

• Incorporating Inclusivity in Project-Based Learning

• Build with AI: Playlab Design Sprint

• Broadening the Pipeline: FIUteach’s Addition of Flexible STEM Education Pathways

• Empathy Mapping, Asset Framing, and Reframing Mistakes in STEM Learning

• Re-Imagining FSU-Teach: Designing Pathways that Broaden Participation

• Recruit, Connect, Inspire: Expanding Participation in UTeach Programs

• Meeting Students Where They Are: Designing Flexible Entry Pathways in STEM Teacher Preparation

• Reframing Retention: Using the Power of Community to Enhance Post-Recruitment Recruitment Strategies

• Rising to the Challenge: Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation in the UTeach Model

• Faculty Perceptions of Science Teaching as a Profession: Preliminary Findings

• From Apprentice Teaching to Post-Program Completion: Employment Outcomes for UTeach Completers

• Empowering the Next Generation of STEM Educators: Teacher Candidate Growth Through the NWAY Program

• Preparing STEM Teachers in Challenging Times

• Sensemaking and Real-World Applications in Science

• Supporting Preservice Teachers Through Early Field Experiences

• Project-Based Learning: Implementing and Researching

Closing Session: The Future of STEM Education

Sessions

• Bridging the Gap: What Rookie and Veteran UTeach Science Teachers Can Learn From Each Other

• Preparing the Next Generation of STEM Leaders Through Fellowships and Community

• Teaching Fundamental AI Concepts Through Unplugged Activities

• Strategies for Student Engagement Through a Thinking Classroom

• Phenomenon-Driven Tasks: Three-Dimensional Assessments that Make Sense-Making Visible

• Implementing Mock Teaching in Classroom Interactions and Project-Based Instruction

• Project-Based Instruction in STEM: A Textbook Framework for UTeach Teacher Educators

• Preserving Inquiry-Based Instruction in an Increasingly AI-Based World: Implications for UTeach

• Building Stronger STEM Teachers Through UTeach–Noyce Collaboration

• Funding Essentials: Effective Communication for Donor Engagement 

• From Ideas to Action: Launching the Newly Formed USEA Research Working Group

• Conceptual and Inquiry-Driven Mathematics