STEM-X

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Course Description

Enhance your effectiveness as a STEM instructor or student success staff through ESCALA's STEM-X course!  By completing the exercises in the course, you'll remove unintended barriers to learning rigorous content and provide your STEM students with more opportunities to engage and succeed.  The course is perfect for STEM instructors at any level, as well as MESA and STEM program advisors, tutors, and other staff that work with STEM students. 

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20
hours
ASYNC
$2000
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Overview

Implementing evidence-based teaching
strategies and reducing barriers to learning

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Learn more about the history
of the STEM-X Course

ESCALA's STEM course has evolved over a decade to include a large comunidad of participants and partnerships.

Program Outcomes

By completing the 20-hour course, you will be able to:

Understand cultural patterns in STEM teaching & learning, and why students leave STEM

Know how well your instructional practices are working, and for whom, by using our patented Course Grade STEM Equity Analyzer

Learn which evidence-based teaching practices bridge cultural differences, and how to implement them in your setting

THE STEM-X TEAM

Meet the ESCALA
STEM-X Facilitators

Dr. Jose Cabrera
Chemistry

Facilitator, Casa Head, and Contributor since 2020

Dr. Margarita Otero-Diaz
Environmental Engineering

Facilitator, Casa Head, Contributor since 2020

Dr. Paloma Vargas
Biomedical Sciences

Facilitator and Contributor since 2020

Dr. Anthony Battistini
Civil Engineering

Facilitator, Casa Head, and Contributor since 2020

Dr. Vanessa Hill
Mathematics

Facilitator, Casa Head, and Contributor since 2023

Prof. Jessica Garza 
Geosciences

Facilitator, Casa Head, and Contributor since 2023

Prof. Michal Ramos
Mathematics

Facilitator, Casa Head, and Contributor since 2021

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