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📢 Call for Abstracts 📢 | NARST Graduate Student Research Symposium This symposium is a valuable opportunity for graduate students to: • Share research-in-progress • Receive… | NARST 📢 Call for Abstracts 📢 | NARST Graduate Student Research Symposium This symposium is a valuable opportunity for graduate students to: • Share research-in-progress • Receive constructive ...

📢 Call for Abstracts 📢 | NARST Graduate Student Research Symposium

We encourage faculty, advisors, and colleagues to share this opportunity with graduate students in their programs.

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Research Worth Reading: Exploring Science Teachers’ Efforts to Frame Phenomena in the Community

Science teachers are often asked to make instruction relevant, responsive, and just, while also attending to the NGSS standards. How this can be done in practice, however, can still remain elusive.

Application Due November 1st, 2025 Link forms.gle/At9tyuZUwGLPAC16 Email narstgradcommittee@gmail for details.

📢 Call for Abstracts 📢 | NARST Graduate Student Research Symposium

A valuable opportunity for graduate students to share research-in-progress and receive constructive feedback from a supportive community of scholars.

We encourage you to share this opportunity with interested graduate students.

Latinx young women co‐construct science storylines in high school chemistry | NARST This article shows how co-constructed science storylines can create space for rich scientific thinking. “Co-constructed science storyline” refers to a storyline emerging from the classroom…

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The instructional strategy of community-oriented framing helps teachers connect science to students’ lived experiences & local issues, while also meeting standards. Students were more engaged in learning and saw science as meaningful, empowering, & inherently connected to social justice.

Research Worth Reading: Exploring Science Teachers’ Efforts to Frame Phenomena in the Community

Science teachers are often asked to make instruction relevant, responsive, and just, while also attending to the NGSS standards. How this can be done in practice, however, can still remain elusive.

Latinx young women co‐construct science storylines in high school chemistry | NARST This article shows how co-constructed science storylines can create space for rich scientific thinking. “Co-constructed science storyline” refers to a storyline emerging from the classroom…

More: narst.org/research-wor...

#ResearchMatters #ResearchWorthReading

This study followed students in a chemistry class centered on local wildfires. As students brought in their lived experiences and ideas, class shifted from teacher-directed to student-driven inquiry—and the science became more powerful and personal.

Research Worth Reading: When Students Shape the Science Story

What happens when Latinx girls co-write the science storyline?

Exciting news! New content in the "Research Matters" section of the website.

The Research Worth Reading initiative, a joint effort between NARST and NSTA, highlights recent publications in JRST

Check it out: narst.org/research-matters

#ResearchMatters #ResearchWorthReading

Have an idea for a virtual event? Members are encouraged to propose events that meet the needs of the membership and/or benefit NARST as an organization & beyond.

Deadline to propose a virtual event for next quarter (October, November, December) is Monday, Sept 1.

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Have an idea for a virtual event? Members are encouraged to propose events that meet the needs of the membership and/or benefit NARST as an organization & beyond.

Deadline to propose a virtual event for next quarter (October, November, December) is Monday, Sept 1.

narst.org/virtual-even...

🚀 Calling All Science Educators! We’re thrilled to announce the ASTE Sponsored Session at the 99th NARST Annual International Conference:

🎨 Joyful Transgressions and Radical Imagination in Science Education

🗓 Submit your proposal by September 12, 2025 at 👉 bit.ly/45hH9Y1

#ASTE #NARST2026

Have an idea for a virtual event? Members are encouraged to propose events that meet the needs of the membership and/or benefit NARST as an organization & beyond.

Deadline to propose a virtual event for next quarter (October, November, December) is Monday, Sept 1.

narst.org/virtual-even...

Are you eager to showcase your research, spark dialogue, or connect with colleagues?

Share Your Work with the NARST Community: Host a Virtual Event This Fall!

#NARST invites you to propose a Virtual Event for Fall 2025!

🗓️ Deadline: September 1, 2025

Application Link: narst.org/virtual-even...

Deadline has been extended to August 15. Get those nominations in!

It's that time again! Nominations are now being accepted for the 2026 Distinguished Contributions to Research Award, Early Career Research Award, Outstanding Doctoral Research Award, and NARST Fellows Program.

DEADLINE IS JULY 31, 2025. For more info and how to submit a nomination, see your email.

Share your Ideas and Research at the NARST 99th Annual International Conference, “Joyful Transgressions and Radical Imagination in Science Education.”

Proposal Information: files.constantcontact.com/d1d5dbbe701/...

The countdown is on! We're one week away from the #AERA2026 deadline! www.aera.net/Events-Meeti...

NARST and 10 other education research groups urge Education Department leaders to act immediately to ensure the Civil Rights Data Collection for the 2025-26 school year. Read the letter on AERA's page: www.aera.net/Portals/38/U...

Make sure you get your #AERA2026 applications in by Friday!

AERA is sharing this statement issued by former NCES commissioner Dr. Peggy Carr on the “devastating shutdown and decimation of a critical national institution.” Read it here: www.aera.net/Portals/38/P...

‘Back to the Dark Ages’: Education Research Staggered by Trump Cuts With contracts severed and grants rescinded, experts say Washington’s hit to K–12 research will set back the field for years.

With contracts severed and grants rescinded, experts say the administration’s hit to U.S. education research will set back the field for years Via @the74.bsky.social ‬ www.the74million.org/article/back...

Nominations are due TUESDAY (July 15, 11:59ET) for the 2025-26 NARST board.

We're looking for a President-Elect, a Secretary-Treasurer, & 3 Directors-at-Large. To nominate yourself or someone else: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Upcoming Virtual Event: Science and Engineering Education as a Foundational Focus for High Quality Teaching - July 14, 2025

Register Now: members.narst.org/events/

Nominations are due NEXT WEEK (Tuesday July 15, 11:59ET) for the 2025-26 NARST board.

We're looking for a President-Elect, a Secretary-Treasurer, & 3 Directors-at-Large. To nominate yourself or someone else: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Nominations are open now through July 15 for the 2025-26 NARST board. We are looking for a President-Elect, a Secretary-Treasurer, & 3 Directors-at-Large. To nominate yourself or someone else: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For more info about the nomination & election process, check your email.

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Interested in becoming more involved with NARST? We are seeking volunteers to serve on our Standing Committees

Learn more about the committees here: narst.org/standing-com...
and fill out this form to volunteer: members.narst.org/page/volunte...

Nominations are open now through July 15 for the 2025-26 NARST board. We are looking for a President-Elect, a Secretary-Treasurer, & 3 Directors-at-Large. To nominate yourself or someone else: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For more info about the nomination & election process, check your email.

COMMENTARY: Eliminating programs that improve higher education access is a huge mistake TRIO programs slated for elimination in Donald Trump's "skinny budget" pave the way to higher education for thousands of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, including this author.

In this op-ed in @edsource.org, AERA member Mayra Puente addresses how the elimination of eight federally funded programs that support higher education access is a mistake. edsource.org/2025/elimina...