Eighth Annual National Urban Service-Learning Institute

Monday, August 15, 2011 (All day) - Tuesday, August 16, 2011 (All day)

Hosted by the Minnesota STEM Education Center’s Colloquium on P-12 STEM Education Research, August 15-16, 2011

Registration is open. Please use the links below to register.

Who should attend: K-12 teachers, administrators, researchers, and district leaders from urban schools
When: August 15-16, 2011
Where: Continuing Education & Conference Center, University of Minnesota - Saint Paul campus, St. Paul, Minn.
Why: Explore ways to engage urban students in academically challenging and meaningful learning experiences through service-learning and through engaging them in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

Note: NYLC's partner organization youthrive will still offer its Circle of Youth Engagement Training Sat., Aug. 6, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at NYLC’s offices in St. Paul. Join this daylong session on fostering youth-adult partnerships and learn about an innovative new measurement tool. Contact Peace Lee at peace@youthrive.net or visit youthrive.net for details.

By joining forces this year with the Minnesota STEM Education Center, NYLC’s Urban Service-Learning Institute is able to offer participants more robust professional development offerings. The Colloquium on P-12 STEM Education Research is a forum for professionals researching and teaching P-12 STEM education to come together to share problems and create solutions. Participants will hear different perspectives on how to integrate STEM, learn strategies to implement what works, and find out about emerging research. The National Urban Service-Learning Institute, presented by NYLC within the event, will guide urban educators on standards-based service-learning for STEM education, integrating STEM with other academic areas, and thinking about service-learning as a pedagogy for increasing educational equity.

Join us to ...

  • Experience a lively mix of featured speakers, hands-on workshops, and cutting-edge research.
  • Interact with educators, practitioners, researchers, legislators, and other STEM professionals from across the nation to engage in substantive conversations about vital issues in schools.
  • Explore how service-learning is a crucial tool for schools in engaging students in STEM education—even for teachers in other curricular areas.

Featured sessions focusing on urban service-learning at the event will include Rosilyn Carroll, Jean Strait, and Richard Webb of Hamline University’s Center for Excellence in Urban Education engaging in a dialogue on service-learning as a means of reducing education disparities. Susan Root, NYLC’s research director, will present on designing academically rigorous service-learning experiences integrating STEM, and middle school educators will talk about environmental education projects.

Attendees are also welcome to attend a welcome reception Sunday, August 14, 5:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. To register for the Eighth Annual National Urban Service-Learning Institute, please register for the Colloquium on P-12 STEM Education Research at http://www.cehd.umn.edu/STEM/colloquium2011/

Information on breakout sessions will be available July 15 and will note which sessions are part of the National Urban Service-Learning Institute.

Scholarships are available to for P-12 teachers to attend. To learn more go to  http://www.cehd.umn.edu/STEM/colloquium2011/Scholarships.html