Outreach

CSEQuIN members are particularly active in outreach to the local Buffalo Public Schools (BPS). This effort, facilitated by the University at Buffalo/Buffalo Public Schools (UB/BPS) partnership, places faculty and students within class rooms in the Buffalo Public Schools:

UB/BPS Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Partnership
At the core of the UB/BPS Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Partnership are four interrelated goals:

i) Teacher professional development through collaboration between faculty, the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) graduate fellows and teachers, using established interdisciplinary science and engineering research to develop curriculum materials and hands-on science and after school support

ii) Extended classroom and after school staffing coordinated and led by STEM graduate students with other UB graduate and undergraduate students in service learning groups to implement new curricula and hands-on science experiences

iii) Developing mentoring relationships with students and parents by faculty,
STEM graduate students, and undergraduates

iv) Faculty involvement in the classroom and in school exchanges and field trips
to facilities at UB and throughout the region

The UB/BPS program emphasizes the link between the institution’s interdisciplinary research
strengths and curricular change and teacher professional development. The major effort starts at
the middle school level (grades 6-8) and works to move successes down to elementary school
science in K-8 schools and high school science in combined middle/high schools.

Professor Joseph A. Gardella, Jr. in the classroom:

UB Reporter Stories:

Historic Partnership will Focus on Preparing BPS Students for the 21st Century

Introducing Science to School 19