UCLA SEA Change Initiative: A collaborative approach using data for institutional change
Rachel Kennison, University of California-Los Angeles
The AAAS's Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) Equity Achievement (SEA) Change initiative uses research-informed strategies including a self-assessment process to build capacity ...

A Case Study of How STEM Education Practitioners Think about Change Theory, Change Strategies, and Making Relevant Project Choices
Laura Muller, The Jackson Laboratory; Melissa Eblen-Zayas, Carleton College
Practitioners can be challenged in understanding the language around change strategies and change theories in developing projects to bring about institutional change because of a lack of insider knowledge about how ...

Cross-Pollination Between Independent Projects to Broaden Culture Change and Sustain Curricular Reform
Catherine Ishikawa, California State University-Sacramento; Kelly McDonald, California State University-Sacramento; JoAna Brooks, California State University-Chico; Milica Markowic, California State University-Sacramento; David Alexander, California State University-Chico; Praveen Meduri, California State University-Sacramento; Mohammed Eltayeb, California State University-Sacramento; Michele Mittman, California State University-Chico
Engaging students in authentic work, like novel research and design, is a high-impact classroom practice that has been gaining popularity. While early projects sought to show that CUREs (Course-based Undergraduate ...

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Holistic STEM Support Program: A Quantitative Approach
Sarah Hoiland, CUNY Hostos Community College; Norberto Michel Hernandez Valdes-Portela, CUNY Hostos Community College
The Holistic Oasis for Parents' Education (HOPE) Program utilizes a two-generation approach (student parents and their children), to increase access to STEM education among underrepresented groups. This ...

Back to the Future: Recovering the Civic Purpose of Science Education
Eliza J. Reilly, National Center for Science and Civic Engagement
Since the assault on the US Capitol there is no longer any question that US democracy is in crisis. Racial, economic, social, and political divisions are growing. Media manipulation, gerrymandering, voter ...

Change Leaders for Improving Secondary Mathematics Teacher Preparation
Wendy Smith, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Brian Lawler, Kennesaw State University
The Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership (MTEP) is a national networked improvement community (NIC) seeking to transform secondary mathematics teacher preparation, centering principles of equity and inclusion. ...

How Higher Education Can Change to Thrive with a Changing Demographic
(/details/images/266735.html) Archie Holmes, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, The University of Texas System Archie Holmes joined The University of Texas System as Executive Vice ...

Exploring Implicit Leadership to Promote Change
L.J. McElravy, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Rachel Kennison, University of California-Los Angeles; Kelly Clark, Johns Hopkins University
The purpose of this workshop is to explore how expectations about leadership influence how people work with one another to create change. Using a social-identity theoretical lens (Hogg & van Knippenberg, 2003), ...

Creating a Spacious Capacity to Support Institutional Change
Kris Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kimberly LeChasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Capacity within higher education institutions is held in its people. Institutional change is a complex and messy business that cannot happen unless people change attitudes and behaviors (Armenakis, Harris, & ...

Making Change Theory Work for You
Tessa Andrews, University of Georgia; Daniel Reinholz, San Diego State University
This workshop will provide an opportunity to learn about the use of change theory in STEM higher educational change. This workshop will be relevant to participants who are new to change theory and those who have ...