WYTeacherCon25: Full Schedule

Join us for Wyoming’s inaugural statewide teacher conference, bringing together educators, administrators, and educational leaders from across the state. As we approach America’s 250th anniversary, TeacherCon25 celebrates our educational heritage while embracing the future of teaching and learning.

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10:45am PDT

Get Students Outdoors with Game and Fish LIMITED

Tuesday August 5, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am PDT

Salon C

Wyoming Game and Fish Department offers a variety of conservation education programs for schools. Our programs meet science, social studies, math and PE standards, are low-cost or free, and emphasize hands-on learning and getting students outdoors.

Speakers

Ashley Leonard

Education Supervisor, Wyoming Game and Fish Department

Nish Goicolea

Tuesday August 5, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am PDT
Salon C

Science

2:00pm PDT

3D Science Assessments and Rubrics LIMITED

Tuesday August 5, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm PDT

Salon D

The three dimensions (3Ds) of science teaching and learning (practices, big ideas, and content) clearly engage our students in relevant and transferable learning, but assessing 3D learning is complex and challenging. In this session, you will explore two science assessment examples to consider a research-based and 3D approach to assessment rubric development. You will have time to consider and discuss how these rubrics could be used and adapted to your needs and your district assessment expectations while fully assessing the 3Ds of the Wyoming Science Content & Performance Standards. You will walk away with two examples of high-quality assessment and rubric examples for science, as well as ideas for how to bring similar work into your setting.

Speakers

Clare Gunshenan

Professional Learning Facilitator, University of Wyoming

Clare Gunshenan is an Outreach Science Educator for the Science and Mathematics Teaching Center at the University of Wyoming. She brings a background in non-formal science education instruction, coordination, and research, including how non-formal science learning can support the... Read More →

Tuesday August 5, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm PDT
Salon D

Science

3:15pm PDT

How to make learning experiences in science more meaningful, rigorous, and equitable for students LIMITED

Tuesday August 5, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm PDT

Salon F

Students often see science as terms to remember or procedures to follow. The workshop will introduce an instructional model called Argument-Driven Inquiry that can be used to create learning experiences that are meaningful, rigorous, and equitable from the perspective of students by giving them opportunities to use science to figure out how and why phenomenon happen in the world around them.

Speakers

Victor Sampson

Associate Professor of STEM Education, The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Sampson's research examines how culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students participate in the practices of science, engineering, and mathematics and how to organize the interactions that take place between students, materials, and ideas in ways that promote and support... Read More →

Tuesday August 5, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm PDT
Salon F

Science