For three decades Diana has conducted hundreds of science and STEM-based teacher training workshops and institutes, reaching thousands of K-12 educators throughout the world. Additionally, she has been a 
keynote speaker, featured speaker, and presenter at over fifty early childhood through secondary STEM and science-education conferences at regional and national events, and throughout the world.
About the Science and STEM Professional Staff Development Sessions:
- Are standards-based (regional and national) * Manuals and professional staff development are custom-designed according to what standards the school or school system has adopted.
- Are aligned with the goals of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
- Are aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) learning goals, or regional adopted science standards.
- Integrate 21st Century Skills: creativity & innovation, critical thinking & problem-solving, communication, and collaboration.
- Incorporate engineering design challenges across the science disciplines.
- Introduce participants to incorporating project and problem-based STEM challenges within the classroom, and informal learning environments.
- Engineering design challenges are socially responsible
- Are hands-on-minds-on.
- Are inquiry-based.
- Empower the participant through engaging investigations and thought-provoking discourse.
- Incorporate the use of reflective engineering journals
- Use simple, readily available, and inexpensive materials.
- Incorporate a wide- array of affordable technological tools aside from computer-based technology.
- Are highly interactive
- Make connections across the sciences and disciplines.
- Incorporate multicultural science and STEM-based explorations and investigations.
- Incorporate PBL principles and practices.
- Provide numerous opportunities for participants to design, build, and construct simple to complex models and projects throughout the training.
- All scheduled professional staff development will include a 30-minute virtual ZOOM follow-up consulting session. Multiple-day sessions will include lengthier virtual follow-up sessions up to 1 hour.
K-12 Science and STEM Professional Staff Development Sessions:
The following is a list of K-12 science and STEM-based professional staff development trainings Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski conducts. In addition, Diana can custom-design professional staff development and institutes to meet the needs and goals of your organization and audience, as well as custom-design virtual professional staff development for your staff. The following trainings are also applicable for 21st -Century Community Learning Staff, afterschool staff, Librarians, and Media Specialists. The following professional staff development workshops are available for single-day to multiple-day sessions to intensive week-long institutes. Diana also provides professional staff development in foreign countries from 2-day sessions to 10-day institutes. She has provided professional staff development and keynotes in Columbia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Turkey, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Sessions are available on-site or virtually.
STEM Skills Are For Everyone
Exploring Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Practices and Content
Introduction to the Engineering Design Process
Incorporating the Arts in STEM: From STEM to STEAM
Green Engineering: Implementing Socially and Globally Responsible Engineering Challenges in the Classroom (3-5, 6-8, & 9-12)
Inspired by Nature: Connecting Engineering and Biomimicry (MS-HS)
STEM On A Budget (K-5)
Integrating Engineering and Literature to Teach STEM (k-2, 3-5, 6-8 or 6-12)
Incorporating LEGO® Building Bricks and Kits to Promote Engineering Habits of Mind and Develop 21st Century Skills (K-4)
Available Maker Education Professional Staff Development:
Building Maker Mindsets and Culture Through Makerspaces Introductory Workshop (school and public library settings +)
The Young Child as a Tinkerer and Maker (school and public library settings +)
Introduction to the Engineering Design Process (school and public library settings)
The following is a sampling of videos from Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski STEM teacher training workshops she has conducted. They depict the type of training and learning environment you can expect participants to experience.