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Problematizing teaching and learning mathematics as "given" in STEM education
This article calls for two shifts in mathematics education: (1) to reframe mathematics, and all of STEM as a sense-making activity rather than a body of content to be learned, or practices to engage in and (2) to simultaneously focus on how students experience the discipline. The TRU Framework (Schoenfeld, 2019) is presented as a tool to assess classroom instruction towards these means.

Resource Type: Position papers or recommendations, Peer-reviewed article
Teacher Prep Topic: Integrative or Disciplinary Resources, Mathematics, Pedagogical Content Knowledge/Content Knowledge for Teaching , Integrated STEM

Social Justice Standards: A Framework for Anti-bias Education
The Social Justice Standards provide a framework, common language, and age-appropriate learning outcomes for anti-bias education at every stage of K–12 instruction. The Social Justice Standards can guide curriculum development to support efforts to make schools more just and equitable. The 20 standards are divided into 4 domains: identity, diversity, justice, and action.

Resource Type: Standards and assessments
Teacher Prep Topic: Equity, inclusion and diversity
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

Robotics K-3: Unplugged Coding
Tami Moffatt, Clover Park School District
A short presentation of resources and strategies for teaching robotics to K-3 students.

Resource Type: Conference presentations/products, Curricula
Teacher Prep Topic: Integrative or Disciplinary Resources, Engineering, Equity, inclusion and diversity, Integrative or Disciplinary Resources:Computer Science, Integrated STEM
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation
Resource Origin: Generated by NextGen-WA STEM Teacher Prep project

Beyond Equity as Inclusion: A Framework of "Rightful Presence" for Guiding Justice-Oriented Studies in Teaching and Learning
This essay presents a rightful presence framework that "highlights the limitations of equity as inclusion" and "orients the field towards the importance of political struggles to make present the lives of those made missing by schooling and discipline-specific norms." This essay includes two STEM classroom vignettes to illustrate this framework's tensions and guiding tenets.

Resource Type: Position papers or recommendations, Peer-reviewed article
Teacher Prep Topic: Equity, inclusion and diversity
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

Engineering Design Process - LED Card Design and Build
The LED Card lesson is an innovative, inquiry STEM lesson where pre-service teachers get to plan, and implement research based instruction to upper elementary students. The LED Card lesson is the Engineering Design.

Resource Type: Activities
Teacher Prep Topic: Integrative or Disciplinary Resources, Pedagogical Content Knowledge/Content Knowledge for Teaching , Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships, Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation, Integrative or Disciplinary Resources:Engineering, Integrated STEM
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation
Resource Origin: Generated by NextGen-WA STEM Teacher Prep project

The NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering
With input from people around the world, an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st century. Their 14 game-changing goals for improving life on the planet, announced in 2008, are outlined here. The committee suggested these Grand Challenges fall into four cross-cutting themes: SUSTAINABILITY, HEALTH, SECURITY, and JOY OF LIVING.

Resource Type: Position papers or recommendations, Links to agencies, organizations, and professional societies
Teacher Prep Topic: Integrative or Disciplinary Resources:Integrated STEM, Policies affecting STEM Teacher Prep, Integrative or Disciplinary Resources:Pedagogical Content Knowledge/Content Knowledge for Teaching , Integrative or Disciplinary Resources, Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth and Space Science, Environmental Science), Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships, Equity, inclusion and diversity, Pedagogical Strategies in STEM Teacher Preparation, Recruiting, advising, mentoring pre-service students, Integrative or Disciplinary Resources:Integrating STEM with Humanities and the Arts, Engineering
Grade Level: Elementary STEM teacher preparation, Secondary STEM teacher preparation

Redefining Teaching, Re-Imagining Teacher Education
The authors advocate for a conceptualization of teaching as a complex endeavor where teachers are decision-makers and reflective practitioners, with an accompanying shift of teacher education to emphasize clinical practice and pedagogies of enactment.

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

POGIL
"POGIL is a teaching pedagogy that makes students feel engaged, accomplished & empowered. POGIL is Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning"

Resource Type: Curricula
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

Working for Washington's Future: Healthy Watersheds
This publication is about the state's water resources, definitions of watersheds, discussion of water pollution, "How healthy is your watershed?" checklist, WA map of watersheds, What you can do to improve watersheds, and additional resources.

Resource Type: Curricula
Teacher Prep Topic: Institutional and programmatic change
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation

Identifying a core set of science teaching practices: A delphi expert panel approach
This article describes a Delphi panel process resulting in a list of science teaching practices that can help students achieve NGSS learning goals. It is meant to be a research-based starting point for future conversation rather than a definitive to-do list of high-leverage practices.

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article
Teacher Prep Topic: Clinical practices, pedagogies, and partnerships
Grade Level: Secondary STEM teacher preparation, Elementary STEM teacher preparation