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2020 Conference

Welcome to the Tampa Bay Wipro Science Education Fellowship Conference. At this conference you have the opportunity to hear about the work the Tampa Bay Wipro fellows have done during their first and second years in the program, learn from fellows from additional Wipro SEF sites around the US, and engage with K-12 STEM education stakeholders.

The program, led by University of South Florida College of Education and David C. Anchin Center faculty Drs. Allan Feldman, Karl Jung, and David Rosengrant, is providing 60 science education fellows from Hillsborough, Pasco, and Pinellas school districts with professional development opportunities to grow their knowledge and practice. Through this program, fellows engage in more than 250 hours of intensive learning that engages them with peers from across districts and grade-levels, as well as in their own personalized learning goals.

The conference began asynchronously, Saturday October 17th, and concludes synchronously on Saturday October 24th beginning at 1:00PM EDT. It concludes with a keynote address by Dr. Tracy Fanara, the Coastal Modeling Portfolio Manager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Please take a few moments to watch the welcome videos from the director of the Wipro program, Dr. Arthur Eisenkraft from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and from the Tampa Bay Wipro Science Education Fellowship Leadership Team.

Conference Agenda

This conference will consist of synchronous and asynchronous sessions.

All registered attendees will receive a kick off email on Saturday, October 17, 2020 with information on how to access the various different videos created by the presenters

Asynchronous Sessions

Saturday, October 17 - Friday, October 23, 2020

Attendees watch videos for H-CCLS sessions they registered to attend via Dropbox.
Videos can be accessed here.
Record warm/cool feedback and questions to provide during synchronous session.
Warm feedback doesn’t criticize or compliment; it names what is is effective, let’s the Fellows know what is working, and points out where the Fellows successfully met their goals and provides supporting evidence.
Cool feedback doesn’t tell Fellows what to do, it raises questions like “What if…” or “I wonder what would happen if…” It tunes the Fellows into areas of disconnects, gaps, dilemmas, or other areas of “weakness” in their work. Finally, it provides Fellows with potential areas to explore.
Watch Flipgrid presentations of cohort 1 GPS projects and leave a comment via Flipgrid

Synchronous Sessions

Saturday October 24, 2020
1:00 - 4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST)

On Zoom at this link
- Meeting ID: 989 0700 9559
- Passcode: 0B5qXK
- One tap mobile: +19292056099,,98907009559#,,,,,,0#,,136541# US (New York)

Fellows provide brief (5 minutes) review of who they are and what their work was that was shared in their video presentation.
- Introduction of group members and where/what do they teach.
- Course of Study.
- Brief review of key learnings/highlights from the work.

Attendees provide warm/cool feedback and ask questions.

Tentative Schedule for October 24, 2020
Session	Room 1	Room 2
1:00-1:15 p.m. EDT Welcome	Welcome to the meeting and review of process
1:15-1:55 p.m. EDT - H-CCLS Presentations I	Florida Group 1: Implementing Instructional Conversations through Planning and Carrying Out Investigations Texas Group 1: Using Socratic Seminar to Engage Discussions	Florida Group 2: Hands On activities Analyzing and interpreting data Texas Group 2: Planning and Carrying out Investigations
1:55-2:05 p.m. EDT Break/Transition	Break
2:05-2:45 p.m. EDT - H-CCLS Presentations II	Florida Group 3: Using the Socratic Seminar for Learning Florida Group 4: Constructing Explanations and Designing Solution
2:45-3:45 p.m. EDT Keynote Presentation	Dr. Tracy Fanara from NOAA View Biography
3:45-4:10 p.m. EDT	Induction Ceremony for Cohort 3
4:10-4:30 p.m. EDT	Concluding activities
Post Conference Survey	Please take our post-conference survey!

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Tracy Fanara

I am an environmental engineer and scientist currently managing United States ocean modeling efforts in pursuit of an Earth Systems model to better understand our planet and the threats to its inhabitants in a changing world. My journey has shown me that the most effective way to protect the resources we need to survive, isn't always through the actual science, it's part of it, but hardly the whole story. Throughout history it's been voice of the public puts change in motion, and that voice is powered by people who were once students learning about earth systems and the role of humans. For many adults, this was the last science they were exposed to; what they retain now may be the only science they use to make decisions throughout their lives. Kinesthetic learning through community science projects empowers and inspires students by allowing them to become actual scientists as they contribute to scientific studies to answer pressing questions, protect wildlife, or alert the public of environmental threats. As our job force moves towards careers in STEM, we need more scientists, engineers, etc, but we also need more lawyers, doctors, hairdressers, sales, and garbage people, to have and understanding of how the world works. Community science is a great first step to connect students to the natural world and to careers in STEM!

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