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 presently 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 marketing consultant 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 masking security training.
Dr. Roy has been actively concerned with elements of danger administration and mitigation for many years and is usually known as on to be an knowledgeable witness in litigation circumstances, specializing within the space of authorized legal responsibility in Ok-12 laboratories. His profession in science and arithmetic training has included educating chemistry, physics & arithmetic at the highschool stage, biology and basic science on the school stage, and central workplace administration as a Ok-12 science curriculum director. Dr. Roy has obtained quite a few skilled acknowledgment awards over time for his excellent work within the subject of science training.
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. Lecturers might not have been totally skilled in security by their credential packages and might have extra assist. Security seminars provided at NSTA could be helpful as a preservice and canopy the necessity for correct storage and disposal. Lecturers will also be skilled on guaranteeing the security 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 outside. Preparation for any outdoors audio system to make their displays safer can be really useful. Dr. Roy shares some tales, together with how he turned fascinated by 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 workforce for the Subsequent Era Science Requirements.
Mr. Huff has obtained 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 ebook “Partaking 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 Medication (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 Ok-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 educating started, and the way his curiosity in house science helped him. They focus on his basic method to educating, what conjures up 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 affords ideas for non-science-trained lecturers on partaking 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 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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