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Initial Publication Date: March 16, 2015

SERC has an extensive portfolio of projects that have been created, developed, and implemented in collaboration with many partners. Learn more about many of our current and past projects using the browse below.

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Career Support for Educators: Focus on supporting educators in their careers. This includes pre-service and in-service professional development for k-12 teachers, support for college educators aimed at different career stages and elements like leadership development.

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Teacher Preparation
This site examines the role of geoscience departments and faculty in preparing preservice teachers and supporting practicing teachers who teach Earth science at all pre-college levels. It draws from the participants insight and outcomes of a 2003 workshop. SERC hosted the workshop and supported the development of the website synthesis.
Project Focus: Career Support for Educators
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Community Building/Organization, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Organizational Backbone, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Website Hosting and Development, Event Development/Facilitation
Network of STEM Education Centers
NSEC is an organization of campus-based centers and offices that serve as catalysts for educational transformation in STEM. The network allows center leadership, university and college administrators, and state and national policymakers to have a central hub for their communal efforts. SERC works with NSEC to develop a number of resources that can assist STEM Education Centers in their missions and development. The STEM Ed Center Toolkit, Research Action Clusters, Center Profiles, as well as a number of virtual and in person events such as the Transforming Institutions conferences.
Project Focus: Network and Community Building , Changing Education Systems, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, Career Support for Educators
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Professional Development, Organizational Backbone, Community Building/Organization, Project Management/Implementation, Website Hosting and Development:Online Tool Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Website Hosting and Development
SAGE 2YC
By engaging 2YC geoscience faculty in professional development, the SAGE2YC project disseminated advances in STEM education to improve teaching, support students in geoscience technical training, and help prepare geoscience majors and pre-service teachers for college transfer. This program shared successful strategies for teaching students with a range of abilities, experiences, and goals, and for preparing 2YC students for the geoscience workforce.
Project Focus: Career Support for Educators, Changing Education Systems
SERC Role: Professional Development, Evaluation, Organizational Backbone, Community Building/Organization, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Project Management/Implementation, Website Hosting and Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Content Expertise
Mental Health in the Geosciences
The workshop on Positive Mental Health in the Geosciences focused on building community and gathering information from attendees and psychologists to help us assess how mental health is being addressed in formal and informal geoscience communities, and identify outstanding needs. SERC designed and facilitated the workshop with the Geological Society of America.
Project Focus: Supporting Student Success, Career Support for Educators, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice
SERC Role: Event Development/Facilitation, Website Hosting and Development
Earth Educators Rendezvous
The Earth Educators' Rendezvous is a semi-annual conference featuring a combination of workshops, posters, talks, round-table discussions, field trips, and plenary presentations. SERC manages the conference logistics, supports the conference programming, assist the planning committee, and hosts the conference website.
Project Focus: Career Support for Educators, Connecting STEM Research to Education, Network and Community Building , Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Event Development/Facilitation, Project Management/Implementation, Website Hosting and Development
National Institute for Faculty Equity
Minorities and women, minority women in particular, are underrepresented in academia, even more so in the STEM disciplines: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Members of these underrepresented groups represent an untapped resource. The National Institute for Faculty Equity seeks to address this persistent problem, in part by institutionalizing the professional development and career success of women and minorities in STEM. This website offers resources for underrepresented faculty in engineering, including presentations and from the Minority Faculty Development workshops and the Cross-Disciplinary Initiative for Minority Women Faculty conference. SERC hosts the project's materials as well as provided a web platform for project personnel to use for annual events.
Project Focus: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, Career Support for Educators
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Professional Development, Product Dissemination, Event Development/Facilitation
Building Strong Departments
The Building Strong Departments website is a discipline-agnostic look at the issues facing STEM departments and grew out of the successful programming associated with the Building Strong Geoscience Departments program. SERC served as a lead for the earlier efforts and adapted the geoscience-specific resources for broader use on this site.
Project Focus: Career Support for Educators, Changing Education Systems
SERC Role: Materials Development/Review, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Website Hosting and Development