STEM PD Retreat 2025

Learn about the variety of MMSA’s programming and professional development opportunities available to educators and administrators.

Questions are the beginning of a path toward discovery, imagination, and STEM exploration. How can we help youth expand and clarify their thinking and develop their reasoning through the questions we ask them? Come grow in your practice within a supportive group of other educators, and learn about open-source ACRES resources.

In this session, educators and administrators can learn from MMSA’s STEM Work Force Ready 2030 project about various strategies to engage with local industry leaders and identify skills and practices needed in the current and future workforce that can be integrated in K-12 classrooms.

Have you ever wondered if your students bring what they have learned at school to their homes and beyond? This talk will explore how to encourage students to become teachers in their own environments, extending science learning outside the walls of the classroom. Come listen to the exciting impacts kids can make in their communities, and how you can incorporate best practices to facilitate this type of exchange in your own teaching.