72nd MSTA Annual Conference!March 7-8, 2025 | Lansing CenterWelcome to the 72nd MSTA Annual Conference! As a reminder, you will be able to build out your own personalized agenda one week before conference via the conference platform app. More details to come. |
 | Hotel InformationCourtyard by Marriot Lansing Downtown is offering discounted room rates at $159 a night. Book Courtyard by Marriot Lansing Downtown Here AC Hotel Lansing is offering discounted room rates at $154 a night which includes breakfast. The AC Lansing is a short 10 minute drive to the Lansing Convention Center. |
Call for SpeakersApplying to speak at the MSTA Conference is a fantastic opportunity to share your innovative ideas and effective strategies with a community of educators committed to excellence in teaching. Are you interested in presenting at MSTA's Annual Conference? Please fill out the form below to submit a presentation proposal. Proposals are due by October 31, 2024. Submit Your Proposal |
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Keynote Speakers
| Terrance Burgess, PhDTerrance Burgess, PhD is an Assistant Professor of science education in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. He holds a BA degree in Geological Sciences and a MA degree in Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also has a PhD in Teaching and Curriculum (Science Education) from Syracuse University. Broadly, his research focuses on how engaging elementary youth of Color in participatory science learning influences their multiple identities within urban schools and promotes their activism within communities. His work utilizes qualitative methodologies to center youth’s voices as they engage in science learning to make sense of how they come to view themselves as scientists while also contending with their other identities as racialized students within their classroom spaces. Additional areas of his research explore how teacher education programs pursue racial equity through a networked improvement community. Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan State University, Burgess was a secondary science teacher in Durham, NC. |
| Stefanie Marshall, Ph.D.Dr. Marshall is an Assistant Professor of Science Education at Michigan State University. Her research engages organizational and system-level questions that take up how policies and decisions about science and STEM education impact the science and STEM experiences of marginalized youth. Dr. Marshall taught middle and high school science in Cincinnati, OH, and served as a district manager of federal programming across the state of Michigan. Dr. Marshall is the recipient of the Google Computer Science Education Research grant for a research project entitled Do Computer Science Heroes Wear CAPEs? An Analysis of State Policy Infrastructures Designed to Support Equity-Focused Computer Science Education. Dr. Marshall’s research has been published in various journals including the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Science Education, Journal of Educational Administration, Cultural Studies in Science Education, and others. Dr. Marshall earned her doctorate from Michigan State University in Educational Policy with a concentration in science education, her master’s from the University of Michigan in Educational Studies, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Oakland University. |
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