Lunch Bites

This week’s episode features Dr. Leena Bakshi, founder and executive director of the nonprofit, STEM 4 Real.  She introduces the concept of culturally relevant phenomena and provides tangible examples of how educators can use them in their classrooms.  She also addresses anti-racism in STEM classrooms and shares her reflections on our Building Community With STEAM Pre-Conference in August.

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For more information about the California STEAM Symposium visit: steamcalifornia.org

This week's episode features Ashley Alvarez, a 2020 high school graduate who is starting her freshman year at Harvard this fall. You may recognize Ashley from the Social Justice Learning Institute student panel at our Building Community With STEAM Pre-Conference in August. She reflects on her recent experience as a summer intern on the STEAM Team at the CDE Foundation during a global pandemic and a national reckoning on racial justice.

For more information about the California STEAM Symposium visit: steamcalifornia.org

This week's episode focuses on utilizing strategic frameworks from Community Schools, a relationship-based way to approach student growth. Our guests are Hayin Kimner, an education policy advisor, and Gustavo Morales, the Program Manager of The CA Labor Management Initiative at CDE Foundation. They reflect on the PACE Report, Community Schools: A COVID-19 Recovery Strategy, and share their experiences helping students, families, educators, and community partners come together to create a trusting school environment.

This week's episode features Edwin Kang, the STEM Specialist at the Mendocino County Office of Education. He describes how he has been supporting students and teachers not only here in California, but also in Indonesia and Borneo. He also shares his biggest takeaway from the Lunch Bites "Creativity and Engineering with Household Robotics" webinar episode with the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation.

This week's podcast features Jean Ryoo, a researcher at the UCLA Computer Science Equity Project. She reflects on how her work shapes effective pedagogical practices that promote academic engagement for students who have historically been denied access to quality computer science education. She also shares her past experience working at the Exploratorium, as well as her interview with a recent high school graduate who attended the Summer of CS. They explore how to attract youth to computer science, STEAM-related classes, and STEAM careers. 

For more information about the California STEAM Symposium visit: steamcalifornia.org

For more information about the Summer of Computer Science visit: summerofcs.org

This week's podcast features Yamileth Shimojyo, a STEAM/Science Administrator at the Riverside County Office of Education. She reacts to a presentation on the power of thinking routines that was led by Justin Boner of Maker Ed, and shares how she has used these tools in her role.

Our first episode features Albert David Valderrama, an educator, as he shares reflections on his international career and his teacher credentialing program at Cal State University Long Beach. He also reacts to Dr. Kyndall Brown’s, the Executive Director of California Mathematics Project, presentation on Math Through the Lens of Social Justice. He also revisits Dr. Chris Emdin’s 2019 California STEAM Symposium Keynote presentation focused on the use of hip hop in education.