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Author: Juanita Chan

Juanita Chan

Juanita Chan, MAEd, is the STEM and College and Careers Pathway Coordinator for Rialto Unified School District. Her main focus is to develop active community-based environmental stewards in NGSS science instruction, career technical education, and environmental stewardship. She has a background in entomology and plant vector pathogen epidemiology, among other disciplines, and has taught both elementary and secondary grade levels. She nurtures wonder and curiosity about the natural world by developing cross-disciplinary curriculum, organizing STEM student learning events, and leading various school professional learning opportunities.

Juanita Chan, MAEd, is the STEM and College and Careers Pathway Coordinator for Rialto Unified School District. Her main focus is to develop active community-based environmental stewards in NGSS science instruction, career technical education, and environmental stewardship. She has a background in entomology and plant vector pathogen epidemiology, among other disciplines, and has taught both elementary and secondary grade levels. She nurtures wonder and curiosity about the natural world by developing cross-disciplinary curriculum, organizing STEM student learning events, and leading various school professional learning opportunities.

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Environmental Education and NGSS in an Era of Uncertainty

Posted By  Juanita Chan , Lizbeth Mariscal
  • ON October 15, 2020

Environmental issues lend themselves to cross-disciplinary integrative learning and science teachers are central to the effort to bring environmental literacy to every California child. . . . At the heart of this broader integrative effort is three-dimensional science learning (NGSS)...

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Reflections on the 2018 CA STEAM Symposium

Posted By  Juanita Chan , Rob Hoffman , Rob Wade
  • ON December 17, 2018

In October, the CA STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art Math) Symposium was held in Long Beach, CA. Leaders from two school districts and one county office of education presented on behalf of the California Environmental Literacy Initiative. Their session entitled...

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Lessons Learned About Things I Thought I Knew: Bridging Community and Science Instruction

Posted By  Juanita Chan
  • ON November 29, 2017

I am a science teacher first and foremost, and I view my world through this lens though usually I don’t even recognize it is there. It also means that I ask a lot of questions, but my questions have served...

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How Can You Be a Tree Hugger in a Community Where There Are No Trees?

Posted By  Juanita Chan
  • ON November 17, 2015

Welcome to Rialto. About 100,000 people call it home, and like much of the Inland Empire it is about an hour from everything: the beach, the mountains, the desert. But when someone says that you are an hour from everywhere,...

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