{"id":20,"date":"2020-05-04T02:53:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T02:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2020-09-30T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T14:54:20","slug":"convening","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/convening\/","title":{"rendered":"Convening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Storybook STEM Convening<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In December of 2019, TERC and the University of Notre Dame convened a group of 21 early childhood reading, family learning, and informal STEM education experts to explore the role of children\u2019s fiction books as a tool for supporting STEM learning with young children and their families. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/convening\/convening-participants\/\">Participants<\/a> included educators and researchers from across the country representing a broad range of learning contexts, professional roles, audience focus areas, and STEM discipline expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the discussions, the group developed a series of recommendations for future work, with a particular focus integrating diversity and equity perspectives into the use of storybooks for family STEM learning. Participants challenged researchers and educators to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Rethink how stories are developed<\/strong>, including how families and scholars of color are represented and involved in the process of creating and selecting stories;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Rethink what we mean by stories<\/strong> by connecting with both written and oral story traditions and creating space for families to tell their own stories;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Rethink our relationships with families<\/strong> by engaging them as key stakeholders throughout the development, implementation, and research process;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Rethink how we measure success<\/strong>, including broadening our notion of STEM learning, connecting STEM and literacy, and attending to the goals of parents and children; and<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Rethink the connection between research and practice<\/strong> by better sharing what we already know and involving educators and other practitioners as partners in the research process.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/09\/Storybook-STEM-Convening-Report-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">convening report<\/a> and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/resources\/\">project resources<\/a> to learn more about the recommendations that emerged from the discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storybook STEM Convening<\/p>\n<p>In December of 2019, TERC and the University of Notre Dame convened a group of 21 early childhood reading, family learning, and informal STEM education experts to explore the role of children\u2019s fiction books as a tool for supporting STEM learning with young children and their families. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/convening\/convening-participants\/\">Participants<\/a> included educators and researchers from across the country representing a broad range of learning contexts, professional roles, audience focus areas, and STEM discipline expertise.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/convening\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/storybookstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}