Each year, SEP shares its work at state, regional, and national conferences. Sessions presented in 2008-2009 are listed below. An overview of SEP’s programs and outcomes was presented at our 2008 Annual Partnership Celebration. Download PowerPoint Slides.
ACS (American Chemical Society) Annual Meeting
March 2010
- Chemical Explorations: Challenging and Changing Teachers' Understanding by Patricia Caldera and Sabine Jeske
AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Annual Meeting
February 2010
- Learn How to Effectively Communicate Science (Workshop) by Jennifer Chu and Sabine Jeske.
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Association for Science Teacher Education
January 2010
- Girls in Science: A Framework for Action (Session) by Katherine Nielsen and Kimberly Tanner.
National Association of Biology Teachers
November 2008
- Outreach through Partnership: The Science & Health Education Partnership between UCSF and SFUSD (Poster) by Ben Koo and Andrew Grillo-Hill
- Guiding early-career scientists to interactively present their research (Presentation) by Ben Koo, Andrew Grillo-Hill and Patricia Caldera. Download presentation slides
- Partnering Reserach Scientists and Secondary Sccience Teachers (Presentation) by Andrew Grillo-Hill, Ben Koo and Brigitte Bogart.
California Science Teachers Association
October 2009
- Physical or Chemical Change? The Macro vs. the Micro View (Short Course) by Brigitte Bogert and Peter Hippard.
National Science Teachers Association
March 2009
- Girls in Science: A Framework for Action (Session) by Katherine Nielsen, Liesl Chatman, Erin Strauss, and Kimberly Tanner.
- A Teacher-Scientist Partnership Model for Professional Development (Session) by Katherine Nielsen and Jennifer Chu. Download Powerpoint slides.
- Teacher-Scientist Partnerships – Everyone Benefits! (Session) by Katherine Nielsen and Nancy Moreno.
National Science Teachers Association - Regional Conference
November 2008
- The Black Box of Science (Workshop) by Katherine Nielsen and Patricia Caldera. View Lesson Plan.
California Science Teachers Association
October 2008
- Inquiry-Based Explorations and Investigations of Properties of Matter (Short Course) by Rebecca Smith and Jennifer Chu. View example lesson: What is matter?
- Demystifying the Language of Life: Chromosomes, Genes and DNA (Short course) by Patricia Caldera and Sabine Jeske. View example lessons: DNA Structure and Replication and Strawberry DNA Extraction.
- Classroom Investigations in Life Sciences: Modeling the Natural World (Workshop) by Ranyee Chiang and Linda Akiyama. View example lesson: Introducing Models to Elementary School Students.
National Association of Biology Teachers
October 2008
- Guiding early-career scientists to interactively present their research (Presentation) by Andrew Grillo-Hill and Mary Matyskiela.
- Preparing Scientists to Work Effectively in K-12 Classrooms and Beyond (Hands-on Workshop) by Sabine Jeske and Jennifer Chu.
- Journaling as Formative Assessment (Presentation) by Andrew Grillo-Hill, Sabine Jeske, and Jennifer Chu. Download Powerpoint slides.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
February 2008
- Scientist-Educator Partnerships: Their Benefits and How to Get Started, (Career Development Workshop) by Katherine Nielsen, Nancy Moreno, Cindy Keleher, Karen Oberhauser, Karen Kirk, Robert Choy, and Sue Kirch.



