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CREATE, and the Office of the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education office (APUE) are delighted to welcome Dr. Stephen Meyers from the University of Wisconsin—Madison as our Speaker Series guest for January. Stephen will be on campus from January 17 - 20, and will be available to meet with colleagues around his presentation on Wednesday, the 18th. His talk will begin at noon and wrap up by 1:30 p.m. 

Please join us for another Co-Integrate event on January 24, 2023.

Dr. Jennifer Green, John Keane, and Dr. Vince Melfi will present "Fostering a Culture of Instructional Development in the Department of Statistics and Probability: Our Journey with First-Year Graduate Teaching Assistants" from 1 PM to 2:30 PM. Please join us for as much of the presentation as you can. 

We are deeply saddened by the events on campus on Monday, February 13, and are grieving for our community's loss of life and the senseless tragedy that took place on our beloved campus. 

Dr. Peng He and Mao-Jen Tseng's presentation scheduled for Weds, 2/15, has been postponed until further notice. 

Dr. Christie Morrison Thomas is scheduled to present her work on Weds, 2/22; at this juncture, we are planning to proceed with that event. We will update this page if anything changes. See the attached announcement for more details about her talk. 

It's time for the 70th Annual Michigan Science Teacher's Association conference! The event will be held at the Lansing Center and Radisson Hotel in downtown Lansing on Friday, March 3, and Saturday, March 4, 2023. The conference will be in person this year. 

CREATE will have six presentations at the conference that you won't want to miss:

Friday, March 3, 2023, 9:30 - 10:30 AM, in the Governor's Room: How successful science teachers teach (and am I doing it?), Dr. Christie Morrison Thomas

Join us in person or virtually for the second spring Co-Integrate session on Thursday, March 16, 2023, at noon. 

We will meet in the seminar space. Light refreshments will be provided,, but please feel free to bring your lunch. 

If you need or prefer to join via Zoom, registration is required: https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_drB3TJccQya-45C0KFplKg.

If you are headed to Atlanta for NSTA 2023, please consider attending the CREATE sessions that will be taking place on Wednesday, March 22nd, and Friday, March 24th. Links to descriptions of all sessions are below; type "Krajcik" in the search field to access the information for the CREATE sessions.

NSTA sessions

We hope to see you in Atlanta!

Please join us on Wednesday, April 5, as we welcome Dr. Niral Shah (back) to MSU/CREATE.

We will again offer Zoom participation for those who cannot attend in person. 

Feel free to share this information with interested colleagues - all are welcome. 

We hope to see you in person or on Zoom on Wednesday, April 5, either in person or on Zoom!

Racism is Permanent: So What Next for STEM Education?

It's AERA time again! CREATE sessions are listed below. Please stop by!

On Thursday, April 14:40–6:10 pm0 to 6:10 pm, David Stroupe will chair "Opening the Black Box of Science Experiences for Preservice Teachers" at Hyatt Regency, West Tower, Ballroom level.

See below for sessions on Friday, April 21: 

9:00-10:30 am Friday, April 21, 2023, Salon A3 (LL)

"By now I haven't told them about insulin/pancreas?": Veteran teacher grappling with NGSS teaching. 

Hildah K Makori1, Consuelo J Morales1, Irene S Bayer1, Tania Jarosewich2, Maria G Salinas1

1 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA. 2 Censeo Group, OH, USA

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10:45 am-12:15 pm Friday, April 21, 2023, PDR 2 (L3)