It’s Time for Science Podcast Episode 22
It’s Time for Science, and it’s time to debate fostering safer, hands-on science environments! On this month’s podcast, Tom talks to security professional Dr. Kenneth R. Roy (Director of Environmental Well being & Security for Glastonbury Public Faculties in Connecticut) and 2025 Paul DeHart Hurd Award winner Kenneth L. Huff!
Dr. Kenneth R. Roy is at the moment the Director of Environmental Well being & Security for Glastonbury Public Faculties (CT). He’s the Chief Science Security Compliance Adviser/Chief Security Blogger for the Nationwide Science Educating Affiliation (NSTA) and the Security Compliance Officer for the Nationwide Science Schooling Management Affiliation (NSELA). He additionally serves because the supervisor and senior advisor for Nationwide Security Consultants, LLC. Dr. Roy has printed 13 acknowledged science and STEM laboratory security books and manuals and authored over 850 security articles in skilled journals and associations overlaying security schooling.
Dr. Roy has been actively concerned with points of danger administration and mitigation for many years and is commonly referred to as on to be an professional witness in litigation instances, specializing within the space of authorized legal responsibility in Okay-12 laboratories. His profession in science and arithmetic schooling has included instructing chemistry, physics & arithmetic at the highschool stage, biology and normal science on the school stage, and central workplace administration as a Okay-12 science curriculum director. Dr. Roy has obtained quite a few skilled acknowledgment awards through the years for his excellent work within the subject of science schooling.
Tom talks with Dr. Roy concerning the significance of security within the science classroom. The dialogue strikes on to the hazards current in a lab and the way lecturers can put together for them. Academics might not have been absolutely skilled in security by their credential packages and may have further help. Security seminars supplied at NSTA may be useful as a preservice and canopy the necessity for correct storage and disposal. Academics will also be skilled on guaranteeing the security insurance policies are recorded in writing for subject journeys and different exterior time in addition to surveying exterior areas for any dangers earlier than bringing college students open air. Preparation for any exterior audio system to make their displays safer can also be really helpful. Dr. Roy shares some tales, together with how he grew to become enthusiastic about security and a few of the experiences he has noticed all through the years.
NMLSTA 2025 Paul DeHart Hurd Award Winner Kenneth L. Huff has been a public-school science trainer for over 33 years and teaches in New York’s Williamsville Central Faculty District. He’s additionally a Trainer in Residence with Harvard College-LabXchange. Mr. Huff served two phrases on the Nationwide Science Educating Affiliation (NSTA) Board of Administrators as president of the Science Academics Affiliation of New York State and the Affiliation of Presidential Awardees in Science Educating. He was a member of the writing crew for the Subsequent Technology Science Requirements.
Mr. Huff has obtained the NSTA Distinguished Educating Award, the Nationwide Science Schooling Management Affiliation Excellent Management in Science Schooling Award, the State College of New York Buffalo State Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Arithmetic and Science Educating. Mr. Huff can also be a Fellow of the American Affiliation for the Development of Science. Mr. Huff is the creator of the guide “Participating College students in Science Investigation Utilizing GRC: Science Instruction In keeping with the Framework and NGSS”. He has served the Nationwide Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medication (NASEM) in a number of capacities, together with as Co-chair of the Trainer Advisory Council, on the Committee on Science Investigations and Engineering Design Experiences in Grades 6-12, and presently serves the NASEM on the Collaborative on Advancing Science Educating and Studying in Okay-12. He’s a Nationwide Board-Licensed Trainer in Science/Early Adolescence.
Tom and Mr. Huff focus on his lengthy profession, how his curiosity in instructing started, and the way his curiosity in house science helped him. They focus on his normal strategy to instructing, what evokes him, and the way he engages college students with science content material. Mr. Huff shares how he engages college students exterior, together with the SSSNOW challenge. He additionally presents suggestions for non-science-trained lecturers on participating college students with science throughout disciplines. The dialogue turns to his expertise writing for the NGSS and the significance of all of the completely different items that go into establishing the requirements. Mr. Huff served as trainer in residence with Harvard College-LabXchange, and he factors out the free assets they provide to lecturers worldwide. The dialog concludes with the recommendation he’d give to younger lecturers.
Listed here are hyperlinks to a few of the security assets Dr. Roy discusses:
This month, we’re providing a free obtain of the FOSS Security Poster!
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