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 knowledgeable 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 Instructing 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 elements of danger administration and mitigation for many years and is usually referred to as on to be an knowledgeable 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 common science on the school stage, and central workplace administration as a Okay-12 science curriculum director. Dr. Roy has acquired quite a few skilled acknowledgment awards through the years for his excellent work within the subject of science schooling.
Tom talks with Dr. Roy in regards to 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. Lecturers might not have been totally educated in security by their credential applications and might have further help. Security seminars supplied at NSTA will be helpful as a preservice and canopy the necessity for correct storage and disposal. Lecturers will also be educated on making certain the protection insurance policies are recorded in writing for subject journeys and different outdoors time in addition to surveying outdoors areas for any dangers earlier than bringing college students open air. Preparation for any outdoors audio system to make their shows safer can be really useful. Dr. Roy shares some tales, together with how he grew to become taken with 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 instructor for over 33 years and teaches in New York’s Williamsville Central Faculty District. He’s additionally a Instructor in Residence with Harvard College-LabXchange. Mr. Huff served two phrases on the Nationwide Science Instructing Affiliation (NSTA) Board of Administrators as president of the Science Lecturers Affiliation of New York State and the Affiliation of Presidential Awardees in Science Instructing. He was a member of the writing staff for the Subsequent Technology Science Requirements.
Mr. Huff has acquired the NSTA Distinguished Instructing 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 Instructing. Mr. Huff can be a Fellow of the American Affiliation for the Development of Science. Mr. Huff is the creator of the e-book “Participating College students in Science Investigation Utilizing GRC: Science Instruction In line with the Framework and NGSS”. He has served the Nationwide Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Drugs (NASEM) in a number of capacities, together with as Co-chair of the Instructor 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 Instructing and Studying in Okay-12. He’s a Nationwide Board-Licensed Instructor 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 area science helped him. They focus on his common method to instructing, what evokes him, and the way he engages college students with science content material. Mr. Huff shares how he engages college students outdoors, together with the SSSNOW undertaking. He additionally provides 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 developing the requirements. Mr. Huff served as instructor in residence with Harvard College-LabXchange, and he factors out the free sources they provide to lecturers worldwide. The dialog concludes with the recommendation he’d give to younger lecturers.
Listed below are hyperlinks to a few of the security sources Dr. Roy discusses:
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