The BioInteractive 2-Year College Educator Community is a Community of Practice whose members work to enhance their teaching by expanding their scientific content knowledge and adopting BioInteractive resources and evidence-based teaching practices.

Participants of the 2027 cohort will learn about cutting-edge genetics research and explore high quality classroom resources and strategies to teach genetics in introductory biology.

Benefits of Participating

  • Belonging to a supportive peer community of 2-year college biology instructors.
  • Attending a teaching-focused conference at HHMI (Chevy Chase, MD) with full travel support (preliminary agenda).
  • Optional - full travel and registration support to present a poster at the National Association for Biology Teachers (NABT) conference in 2028 (contingent on proposal acceptance).

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply, you must:

  • teach full- or part-time at a 2-year college in the 50 United States or D.C., and plan to do so for the next 3 years
  • teach at least 6 life science course sections each year at a 2-year college, including one introductory biology course 
  • have at least 3 years of experience teaching life science at the 2-year college level
  • have not attended a national science education conference in the last 3 years (e.g., NABT, NSTA, ASMCUE, ABLE, HAPS, SABER)

Key Dates

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If you have additional questions or require this application in a different format in compliance with the National Rehabilitation Act/Section 508, please contact us at outreach@hhmi.org.