Innovation Collaborative Summit

content from the STEAM Summit

Lucinda Presley, Innovation Collaborative Executive Director

Building Learning Through the Intersection of Sciences & the Arts

A community of STEAM educators, researchers and school leaders met for the National Innovation Collaborative’s free virtual Summit on October 17, 2024, featuring:

Introduction by Lucinda Presley, Innovation Collaborative Executive Director
Keynotes by two visionary leaders focusing on the intersection of arts and sciences and how educators, administrators, and parents can use STEAM education to help their students succeed in both in and out-of-school-time learning ecosystems.
Short, fast-paced conversations between a researcher, educator and school administrator centering on the needs and proactive strategies that will put STEAM education at the center of learning for all students.
Breakout sessions in which all registrants are encouraged to attend, addressing:
- STEAM lessons and classroom strategies;
- Bringing STEAM to out-of-school-time learning programs;
- The importance of equity and inclusion in STEAM;
- Funding STEAM collaboration for research and programs;
- Creativity and STEAM;
- Integrating the arts into the science classroom.

Thank you for your interest in this pivotal STEM to STEAM conversation about the arts in science, and science in the arts! You can create an account with The Innovation Collaborative's website HERE, which gives you free access to all the organization’s resources.

Keynote Presentations

J.D. TALASEK, Director of Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences and editor-in-chief for Leonardo Journal. To learn more about J.D. go here.

Dr. KYLIE PEPPLER, Professor, Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine; Director of The Creativity Labs; and Co-Director of The Connected Learning Lab. To learn more about Dr. Peppler go here.

Conversations

Dr. ROBERT ROOT-BERNSTEIN, Emeritus Professor of Physiology, Michigan State University; Innovation Collaborative Research Thought Leader; and MacArthur Fellow specializing in research on scientific creativity and art-science interactions. To more learn about Dr. Root-Bernstein go here.

KIMBERLY OLSON, Visual Arts Educator, Centre School, Hampton, New Hampshire and Innovation Collaborative Teaching Fellow. To learn more about Kimberly go here.

Dr. SHARON DELESBORE, Assistant Principal, Stephen F. Austin High School, Sugar Land, Texas; Innovation Collaborative Board member; and President, Association for Multicultural Science Education. To learn more about Dr. Delesbore go here.