ChemEd 2025: Full Schedule

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8:30am MDT

Tools for Talk: Getting Students to Talk About Learning Chemistry

Monday July 21, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am MDT

Green 224

In this session, we will talk about specific strategies and tools you can use to get all students talking about chemistry in your classroom. This is a discussion-based presentation, so come prepared to share your tips and tricks as well! We learn from each other!

Speakers

Kara Luce

Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Microbiology Teacher, Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School

Kara Luce has been a teacher for 20+ years, teaching in a variety of settings in multiple states. While she has taught everything from 7th grade math to honors Physics, the one constant has always been chemistry. Kara strongly believes that all students can successfully learn chemistry... Read More →

Monday July 21, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am MDT
Green 224 Green Center, Golden, CO, USA

Inclusive Practices for All Students

9:30am MDT

High structure course design for chemistry

Monday July 21, 2025 9:30am - 11:15am MDT

Green 224

This workshop will give participants an introduction to high structure course design which scaffolds students through the learning process via pre-class content acquisition and formative assessment, in-class active learning and practice, after-class review and formative assessment, and frequent summative assessment. High structure course design is discipline agnostic and can be tailored to any course topic, course size, modality, and institution. There is an ever-growing body of literature that supports the efficacy of using high structure course design to improve student outcomes including an overall improvement in student learning, narrowing or closing of achievement or performance gaps, increased student feelings of belonging, and the development of students' metacognitive and self-regulated learning skills. Participants will leave this workshop with the knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to design their own high structure course from scratch or to modify an existing course into a high structure course.

Speakers

Justin Shaffer

Teaching Professor / Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Colorado School of Mines

Justin Shaffer, PhD, is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and a Teaching Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering and in Quantitative Biosciences and Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Shaffer is the author of the forthcoming book High Structure ... Read More →

Monday July 21, 2025 9:30am - 11:15am MDT
Green 224 Green Center, Golden, CO, USA

Inclusive Practices for All Students

12:15pm MDT

Birds of a Feather - DIVCHED PreCollege

Monday July 21, 2025 12:15pm - 12:45pm MDT

Green 224

Speakers

Esther Hines

Chair, ACS Division of Chemical Education

Passionate about chemistry and education.I taught high school chemistry for 18 years and college chemistry for 5 years.I enjoy sharing best practices in the classroom and laboratory.

Monday July 21, 2025 12:15pm - 12:45pm MDT
Green 224 Green Center, Golden, CO, USA

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2:30pm MDT

Building PLC Capacity for 3-Dimensional, Storyline-Based Curricula: Lessons from OpenSciEd

Monday July 21, 2025 2:30pm - 3:15pm MDT

Green 224

Strategies to build individual and PLC capacity for fostering student success through 3-dimensional assessment structures in the classroom.

Speakers

Aaron Burg

Science Teacher, Badger High School -- ChemLEAP (Stowe Group - UW Madison)

Aaron Burg graduated from UW Oshkosh in 2007 with degrees in biology and secondary education, along with a minor in chemistry. He earned a Master of Education -- Professional Development degree from UW LaCrosse. Since beginning his teaching career in 2008, Aaron has been dedicated... Read More →

Monday July 21, 2025 2:30pm - 3:15pm MDT
Green 224 Green Center, Golden, CO, USA

Innovative Pedagogy from Current Chemical Education Research

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3:30pm MDT

Introducing OpenSciEd Chemistry! A FREE, NGSS aligned, phenomenon based, comprehensive curriculum for high school.

Monday July 21, 2025 3:30pm - 5:15pm MDT

Green 224

OpenSciEd High School Chemistry incorporates physical science, Earth and space science, and engineering, technology, and applications of science NGSS performance expectations into its five units. Hear how using this cross-disciplinary approach supports student development of chemistry ideas.

Speakers

Kate Henson

Director: K-12 STEM Teaching & Learning, inquiryHub, University of Colorado Boulder

Kate is a former high school science teacher. She holds a BS and MS in Biology and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, Science Education from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research interests focus on student and teacher learning in classroom and professional development... Read More →

Monday July 21, 2025 3:30pm - 5:15pm MDT
Green 224 Green Center, Golden, CO, USA

Innovative Pedagogy from Current Chemical Education Research

ChemEd 2025

8:30am MDT

Kara Luce

9:30am MDT

Justin Shaffer

12:15pm MDT

Esther Hines

2:30pm MDT

Aaron Burg

3:30pm MDT

Kate Henson

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