Meet Alison Allen at the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators (PAC-TE) 55th annual Teacher Education Assembly in Harrisburg, PA from October 21st-23rd at the Best Western Premier The Central Hotel and Conference Center. Alison will be presenting a poster, Building Bridges Through Bilingual Family Literacy Workshops: From University Coursework to Community Impact on Thursday, October 22nd and a talk Rooted in Partnership: PLCs Driving Success for Multilingual Learners on Friday, October 23rd with collaborators from Eastern University. The collaboration is supported by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Professional Development (NPD) grant program, where REA serves as the program evaluator.

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Are you a member of the Visitor Studies Association (VSA)? If so, join Claire Quimby on October 20th at 2pm EST as she co-hosts a VSA Members-Only Web Chat: “Lightning Tool Share: The Ways we Work”. The Lightning Tool Share is a chance to chat with VSA colleagues about some fun tools that make visitor studies easier. If you would like more information about VSA or to chat about the tools we use in our evaluations, please reach out!

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Camellia Sanford-Dolly will be attending the Meaningful Play Conference in Pittsburgh, PA from October 13th-15th. Camellia and our partners from the University of Chicago are presenting at a Hosted Play Session called Collapsing Qubits: A Quantum Themed Card Game on Tuesday, October 13th from 1:30-3:00PM in the Library – Archives of The Mellon Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Meet Kristin Bass, Alison Allen, Nicole Jarvis, Safa Asad, Claire Quimby, Camellia Sanford-Dolly, Maggie Deagon, Yesenia Garcia-Murillo, David Wilmore and Scott Burg at the annual National Institute of Health’s (NIH) SciEd 2026 meeting held virtually from Tuesday, September 29th through Thursday, October 1st. Kristin serves as a Co-Chair of the SciEd Conference, and Alison serves on the Organizing Committee as part of the Teacher Professional Development Strand.

Join Alison, Camellia, and Scott as they present at various sessions on Wednesday, September 30th. Alison and Camellia are co-presenting a breakout session, From Distance to Engagement: Building Strong Connections, Virtually In A Statewide Evaluation from 11:00-12:00pm EST. Scott is co-presenting a short talk, Multi-Institutional Partnerships: Best Practices For Collaborative STEM Programming from 11:00-12:00pm EST. Alison will be co-presenting a breakout session, Rethinking What Middle And High School Teachers Need From STEAM Professional Development: A Teacher-Centered Conversation From NH CREATES from 4:00-5:00pm EST.

REA staff have many years of experience with program evaluations for a wide variety of preK-12 STEM programs. In addition to the presentations listed above, REA contributed to 10 additional talks and 1 video showcase. Collectively, the presentations highlight our work in forming productive partnerships, designing studies, developing and validating instruments, analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, and reporting findings for program improvement and broader dissemination.

If you are attending the SciEd conference or are interested in hearing more, please reach out.

Meet Scott Burg at the Association of Children’s Museums (ACM) Interactivity Conference 2026 in San Diego, CA from April 21st through April 23rd.

Scott will be presenting a session called: Help Us Build It: A Field-Driven Toolkit for Supporting Children with Incarcerated Parents on Thursday, April 23rd from 1:15-2:30pm PST in Coral 2 with collaborators Adrienne Testa from Sciencecenter, Payton Friess from Kansas Children’s Discovery Center, and Heather Wood and Marina Shaunessy from Hands On Children’s Museum.

If you are attending ACM’s Interactivity 2026 or are interested in learning more about Scott’s presentation, please reach out.