RISES (Re-energize and Invigorate Student Engagement through Science) is a coordinated suite of resources including 42 interactive English and Spanish STEM videos produced by Children's Museum Houston in coordination with the science curriculum department at Houston ISD. The videos are aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills standards, and each come with a bilingual Activity Guide and Parent Prompt sheet, which includes guiding questions and other extension activities.
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The Wild Center has been running climate programs for over a decade and has embraced a culture of evaluation in its work to reflect on and improve the programs over time. This evaluation built on findings from prior evaluations to further explore the programs’ impact on rural youth and teachers, but also sought to understand broader contributions to the ecosystem of organizations doing climate resilience work across New York state and around the country.
Kera Collective conducted two rounds of program evaluation to understand the experience and impact of Coastal Maine Botanical Garden’s (CMBG) Advanced Studies in Professional Horticulture programs, which vary in format from standalone lectures to multi-session certificate courses.
This memo report shares findings from sessions including general responses to the Framework and reaction to the specific Framework domains. To conclude, the report looks ahead to how these findings will inform future work on the project.
A panel to explore the transferability of the Framework and the underlying research from the DACUM Competency Profiles across types of informal science institutions was held at COSI on March 20-21, 2023. This memo report shares findings from the sessions including general responses to the Framework and reaction to the specific Framework domains. To conclude, the report looks ahead to how these findings will inform future work on the project.