Fusing Equity in Whole School STEM Reform

This is a report of a National Science Foundation-supported conference about integrating equity into whole school STEM reform. originally planned as an in-person conference in summer of 2020, it was moved to a virtual conference held in the spring of 2022. Researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners shared their visions of equity in STEM over the course of four days spread out over six weeks. The presentations and synthesis shared here set the stage for future empirical studies of equity in STEM education and whole-school reform. Findings from these presentations are primarily informal, as per our goal of providing concrete, practical findings for a broad audience of leaders, teachers, school staff and community partners, parents, and researchers.