WW Teaching Fellowship’s STEM Teaching and Learning During Challenging Times is a virtual symposium for secondary STEM educators to share their experiences with remote teaching and learning over the past few months. WW Teaching Fellows and a broader group of secondary STEM teachers and teacher leaders will share their successes and challenges with educating and meeting the social-emotional needs of young people in high-need schools.

The symposium is intended as an engaging and interactive virtual forum to showcase ideas and presentations. While STEM content and teaching practices will be highlighted and illustrated, it is our more profound hope that participants will engage in deeper discussions about whether and in what ways their visions of teaching and learning have shifted as a result of COVID-19 and/or more recently as a result of the recent national unrest.

Participants will have the opportunity to attend four engaging featured-speaker sessions and hear from four mini-keynote speakers with expertise in a variety of areas. Equally important, participants will hear the reflections and perspectives of our most important educational stakeholders—a panel of students. We hope that you will use this symposium to connect, exchange ideas, and learn from this community of STEM educators. More importantly, we hope to leave you inspired and prepared for the upcoming school year—no matter what challenges it may bring.