STEM Equity Pipeline Archived Webinars
(Please contact Greg Nagy at nagy.8@osu.edu if you have
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The STEM Equity Pipeline Project - What and Why?
Mimi Lufkin, CEO, National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation
Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology
For anyone interested in learning more about the STEM Equity Pipeline Project and
the status of women and girls in science, technology, engineering and math in the
U.S.
Mimi Lufkin gives a brief overview of the
STEM Equity Pipeline Project, a five year grant from National Science Foundation.
Learn how you can get involved in the project sponsored national professional development
and state level activities in California, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin and Oklahoma.
The process for having your state be selected as the project rolls out is also covered.
Susan Metz, a national expert in STEM education,
provides a backdrop for the projects goals with an overview of the current status
of women and girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in secondary
education, postsecondary education and career fields. This part of the presentation
is given to participants to share with others to help build the case for participation
in the STEM Equity Pipeline project or other state or local STEM initiatives.
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slides for this webinar.
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Five-Step Program Improvement Process Webinars
Mimi Lufkin, CEO, National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation
Overview of the Five-Step Improvement Process
The STEM Equity Pipeline project uses a five step improvement process to help guide
state and local improvement efforts to increase the participation and completion
of females in STEM programs.
This introductory webinar, the first in a series on the Five Step Program Improvement
Process, will provide you with an overview of:
- conducting a performance gap analysis using your Perkins data and identifying other
quantitative and qualitative data sources that can inform your fact finding
- identifying the root causes for low participation and completion rates of female
students in STEM programs
- selecting strategies, models and best practices that will increase the participation
and completion of female students in STEM related career cluster programs of study
- pilot testing and evaluating solutions before attempting full implementation
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Identifying gaps in performance at the student, program and school level and using
appropriate benchmarks is key to beginning the process of understanding the reasons
why women and girls aren't participating or completing STEM related cluster CTE
programs in your school. Learn how to use your Perkins data and other data to help
identify where interventions need to occur to increase student access and success.
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What does the research say about root causes for a lack of participation and completion
of women and girls in STEM programs and how can you conduct your own local action
research to identify the root causes in your program? These questions will be answered
and tools given to you to use immediately.
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Once you have identified the most critical root causes to address in your improvement
effort, the next step is to identify and select the solutions that seem most promising
for testing and evaluation. This webinar will assist you in reviewing and selecting
potential solutions for testing in Step 4.
This webinar is a follow-up to the webinars covering Step One and Step Two held
in November and December (see below).
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The fourth in a series of five webinars on the Five-Step Program Improvement Process,
this presentation will focus on how to conduct a pilot test and evaluate solutions
before moving forward with full implementation. Tips for designing a program evaluation
will be reviewed including how to choose a study design, select a pilot site, select
outcome measures, identify data sources, and train pilot site staff. This webinar
will help you identify strategies for testing a solution before full implementation
whether it be in multiple classrooms, schools, institutions or statewide. Relevant
to the classroom teacher, district/college administrator or state agency staff –
this webinar will help you get started on the right path to increasing the participation
and completion of women and girls in STEM related career cluster programs.
This webinar is a follow-up to the webinars covering Step One, Step Two, and Step
Three held in November, December, and January (see below).
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the Powerpoint slides for this webinar.
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The fifth step is to implement fully tested solutions based on plans that evaluate
the success of the solution in reaching the expected performance results. This step
also addresses how to use evaluation results to plan the next steps in state and
local improvement efforts.
This webinar is a follow-up to the webinars covering Step One: Document Performance
Results and Step Two: Identify Root Causes, held in
November and December; Step Three: Select Best Solutions held in
January. Step Four: Pilot Test and Evaluate Solutions held in February.
Look below to view these archived webinars if you missed them.
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GESA Works! Generating Expectations for Student Achievement (GESA)
Dr. Dolores A. Grayson, Developer/Author, CEO, GrayMill Consulting and the GESA
Educational Alliance

GESA Works! Generating Expectations for Student Achievement (GESA): Essential Classroom
Instructional Elements to Improve Student Achievement in STEM
If you are concerned with achievement, success, productivity and retention in the
classroom, this webinar series is for you. Designed for K-16 professional development
staff, administrators, and STEM and CTE coordinators at the local, regional and
state levels, this webinar series is focused on classroom-based strategies that
create high expectations for all students. Strategies are related to the root causes
and other barriers identified in the 5-Step Process presented by Mimi Lufkin.
This first session, in a series of four, will give an overview of the essential
elements for increasing student achievement which explores the correlation between
perceptions, expectations, behaviors and achievement. Research-based areas of disparity
in instruction, that can prevent some students from exploring nontraditional paths
and pursuing interest in STEM-related classes and careers, will be reviewed. You
will be given immediately usable tips and tools for increasing the success of every
student in a classroom.
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GESA Works! Essential Classroom Instructional Elements for Increasing Achievement
in STEM
Dr. Dolores A. Grayson, Developer/Author, CEO, GrayMill Consulting and the GESA
Educational Alliance
This is a series of three in-depth sessions, focusing on the Essential Classroom
Instructional Elements for Increasing Achievement in STEM, condensed and modified
from the specific Generating Expectations for Student Achievement (GESA) units and
spanning decades of longitudinal and updated research. The essential classroom instructional
elements covered in the series are related to the root causes and other barriers
identified in the Five Step Process presented earlier by Mimi Lufkin. These three
follow-up sessions were designed for thirty participants from the GESA Overview
webinar and include the new, revised GESA Participant booklet, power points and
techniques for presentation, for all participating agencies. [NOTE: PLEASE SELECT
ALL THREE MEETINGS BELOW.]
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Effective Program Assessments

Assessing Effectiveness: Do Your Program Activites Make a Difference?
Insights Learned from the Assessing Women and Men in Engineering (AWE) Project
Tricia Berry, Director of the Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at The University
of Texas at Austin
Mimi Lufkin, CEO, National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation
Tricia Berry from the Assessing Women in Engineering Project of The University of
Texas at Austin shares about assessments and using objective driven assessment to
improve the success of local programs. By creating an assessment-based culture,
programs can understand what is working, what is not, and why. Webinar participants
will learn to identify objectives for program activities, identify assessment items
/ instruments to support identified objectives, become aware of AWE assessment instruments
and be able to access tools from the AWE Web site.
With good assessment, programs can:
- Better understand the impact of programming activities
- Identify program needs
- Allocate resources effectively
- Meet reporting requirements
- Attract funding
- Create & compare cross activity/cross institutional data
- Command respect
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Building Effective Program Assessments: Adapting and Using Tools from the Assessing
Women and Men in Engineering(AWE)
Tricia Berry, Director of the Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at The University
of Texas at Austin, is responsible for leading the efforts on recruitment and retention
of women in the Cockrell School of Engineering
As a follow-up to the May 21st Webinar - "Assessing Effectiveness: Do Your Program
Activities Make a Difference?" - Tricia Berry from the University of Texas at Austin,
will help you access tools from the Assessing Women and Men in Engineering (AWE)
website and adapt these tools for use with your local program. AWE offers exportable
assessment instruments, literature resources and capacity building tools for programs
including surveys, data collection templates, capacity building tools and national
benchmarking. Tricia will share a step-by-step process and give examples so you
can use the AWE tools to improve the evaluation of your recruitment and retention
efforts. Watch the archived May 21st webinar for more information before
viewing this webinar.
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Download the Powerpoint slides for this webinar as a PDF file.
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Pink Brain, Blue Brain? Females and Males in Math and Science
Lise Eliot, Ph.D.
Hear the latest science related to female brain development, including the role
of genes, hormones, and environmental influences, and how social factors are proving
to be far more powerful than popularly conceived. Learn concrete ways educators
can help females and rein in harmful stereotypes. As a parent of two sons and one
daughter, she understands the difficulty of confronting gender expectations and
the value of doing so.
(PowerPoint)
(Hyde gender similarities (sept05).pdf)
(Else-Quest, Hyde and Linn (2010) international gender gap in math
has closed.pdf)
(OECD (2009) gender diff similarities in 15-year-old.pdf)
(Beilock, Levine et al (2010 PNAS) teachers math anxiety affects
girls achievement.pdf)
(Feingold and Mazzella (1998) gender diffs in body image are increasing.pdf)
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Pilot Site Orientation
Mimi Lufkin, CEO, National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation
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How to Market Your CTE STEM Program: Tell Your Story to the Right People the Right
Way and Get the Right Results
Jill Chan, MBA, Account Executive, Phillips Design, Sacramento, CA
Phillips Design has done extensive work in education. www.phillipsdesign.com
This webinar will help you to understand the dos and don'ts of successful marketing
and to learn a focused strategy to create communication pieces that work! It will
provide marketing strategies and examples to recruit and retain females in CTE STEM
programs. Learn to:
- Determine your marketing objective
- Identify your target audience
- Consider the appropriate message
- Decide the best method to communicate
(PowerPoint)
(Worksheet)
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Subtle Micro-Messages Impact the Success of Women and Girls in STEM
Dr. Robbin Chapman, Manager of diversity recruiting for the School of Architecture
and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Micro-inequities are those subtle "micro-messages" that devalue, discourage, and
dismiss women and girls as exceptional scholars, scientists, and engineers. To increase
women in STEM careers requires examining practices to ensure equitable treatment
in the classroom. During these two webinars learn:
- About micro-messaging, micro-affirmation, and micro-inequity.
- Practical, hands-on techniques to recognize, challenge and educate others about
micro-inequities.
- Strategies for sending micro-messages that fuel positive behaviors and outcomes
for women and girls in STEM fields.
Session 1 provides the building blocks to understanding micro-messaging and its
impact on communication and performance.
Session 2 delves deeper into the core concepts plus gives participants tools for
taking action to diagnose and devise interventions in micro-inequities that they
perceive in the classroom and workplace.
Documents for Session 1:
(PowerPoint Slides for
Session 1)
(Small Slights Article.pdf)
(Rowe-micro-affirmation.pdf)
(Rowe-Article-Long.pdf)
(Micro-Messaging
Worksheets.pdf)
Documents for Session 2
(PowerPoint Slides for
Session 2)
(Research
on Bias and Assumptions.pdf)
(Resources Webinar
II.pdf)
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1 & 2.

Improving Academic Achievement: Effects of Stereotypes, Beliefs about Intelligence,
and Belonging
Catherine Good, Baruch College, City University of New York
Stereotype threat is not just a laboratory phenomenon, it is a force in real-world
settings. During this webinar learn how:
- Stereotype threat contributes to students' underperformance.
- A Sense of Belonging can mediate the effects of stereotype threat on performance
and participation.
- Ensuring learning environments that convey incremental views of intelligence can
help students maintain a sense of belonging, choose to remain in academics and help
maintain high performance, even in the face of negative stereotypes.
Goals:
- Compare the difference between Entity and Incremental Implicit Theories of Intelligence.
- Understand the relationship of negative stereotype to ability and belonging.
- Comprehend the effects of incremental and entity classrooms on vulnerability to
stereotype threats.
- Identify ways to reduce stereotype threat in the classroom.
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for this webinar.
Additional Links:
http://www.reducingstereotypethreat.org/
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Girl Tech: Mentoring Girls in STEM
Jessica Bullock, Girl Tech Site Coordinator, Francis Tuttle Technology Center, Oklahoma
City, OK
The 2009 winner of the Programs and Practices That Work Award, the Girl Tech program
at Francis Tuttle Technology Center, Oklahoma City, OK has been successful in increasing
the participation and completion of girls in their pre-engineering academy. Girl
Tech includes both online and in-person activities and adds the essential ingredient
of relationships by providing female students with professionals in STEM careers
as mentors and role models who give them assurance that they can succeed.
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Nontraditional Career Preparation: Root Causes and Strategies
Mimi Lufkin, CEO, National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity
NAPE has developed a new tool for educators that distills the current research literature
on nontraditional career preparation with an emphasis on women in STEM fields. The
tool includes a summary table that can be used in workshop settings as an overview
of the root causes, theories and strategies that lead to increasing the participation
and completion of underrepresented gender students in nontraditional career preparation
programs. The tool also includes a more comprehensive section that provides you
with more detail on the research evidence, strategies and recommendations for program
development and resources for strategy implementation. In addition to the tool,
NAPE has developed an online version that allows for self-directed exploration and
provides a web-based location for the addition of new resources and models. This
webinar will introduce you to these tools, show you how to use them for your own
professional development as well as make recommendations for their use in group
professional development settings.
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Interactive Effects in the Theory of Planned Behavior: Examining Attitudes, Norms,
Control, and Stereotype Threat to Predict Girls' Math Performance and Intentions
Bettina Casad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
This webinar will discuss the role of stereotype threat in girls' performance in
STEM disciplines. The presentation will review research on stereotype threat and
provide evidence for why STEM educators should consider this phenomenon in their
classrooms and educational practices. Findings from a study with eighth grade Algebra
students who participated in an experiment on stereotype threat will be highlighted.
The presentation will conclude with a discussion on how educators can help eliminate
stereotype threat and its negative influence on girls' performance in STEM disciplines.
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slides for this webinar.
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(Please contact Greg Nagy at nagy.8@osu.edu if you have
any difficulty viewing the archived webinars.)