Heather Lavender. Creating Spaces of Science for Young Black Girls to Simply Be. Science at the Crossroads. Denver, CO. April 21 – 23, 2025

Amber Adgerson and Heather Lavender. A Systematic Thematic Synthesis of Empirical Literature on Black, Gifted, K-12 Students in STEM. American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA. April 11 – 14, 2024.

Kim Skinner, Heather Lavender, Leiflyn Gambourg, and Huy Nguyen. Concerted Cultivation Re-Imagined. American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA. April 11 – 14, 2024.

Debi Hanuscin, Jackie Murray, Heather Lavender, Jeni Davis, Carrie-Anne Sherwood, Amanda Obery, Melanie Kinskey, Sumreen Asim, and Sarah Voss, Uncovering Preservice Teachers’ Content Knowledge for Teaching (CKT) with Formative Assessment Classroom Tasks. Association of Science Teacher Education, New Orleans, LA. January 10 – 13, 2024.

Heather F Lavender. Navigating Young Black Girls Towards Including their Lived Experiences into Science at an Out-of-School Time Space. Association of Science Teacher Education, New Orleans, LA. January 10 – 13, 2024.

Regina McCurdy, Kania Greer, Heather Lavender. Centering Students’ Racially Diverse Voices, Knowledge, and Experiences to Advance Equitable Relevant Science Teaching. Association of Science Teacher Education, New Orleans, LA. January 10 – 13, 2024.

Heather Lavender, Science in Out-of-School Spaces Video Analysis [in collaboration with Jessica Riccio, Making Equity Explicit: Integrating Equitable Science Practices in Video Analysis across a Research Collaborative of Seven Teachers]. Association of Science Teacher Education, New Orleans, LA. January 10 – 13, 2024.  

Heather F Lavender. Learning and Harnessing the Strengths of Young Black Girl’s Feelings Towards Science from an Out-of-School Time Space. National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Denver, CO. March 17 – 24, 2024. 

Heather F Lavender. Learning and Harnessing the Strengths of Young Black Girl’s Feelings Towards Science from an Out-of-School Time Space. National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Denver, CO. March 17 – 24, 2024. 

Debi Hanuscin, Sarah Fick, Sumreen Asim, Heather Lavender, Emily Borda. A Professional Learning Community (PLC) for Science Teacher Educators to Support Changes in Curriculum, Pedagogy, & Assessment. Association of Science Teacher Education, Salt Lake City, UT. January 11 – 15, 2023.

Heather F. Lavender. The Science Interest of an Elementary Age Black Girl in an Independent School: A Case Study. Association of Science Teacher Education. Greenville, SC. January 5 – 9, 2021.

Kim Skinner, Lillie Connor-Flores, Heather F. Lavender, Leiflyn Gamborg, Huy D. Nguyen. Out-of-School Teaching and Learning: Concerted Cultivation at an Urban Neighborhood Bike Shop. American Education Research Association,  January 17, 2022

Heather Lavender. The Young Black Girl: A Narration of STEM Identity through Science Origin in Elementary School. International Consortium for Research in Science and Mathematics Education. March 20, 2021.

Leiflyn Gamborg, Heather Lavender, and Andronisha Frazier. Perceptual Self-Efficacy Changes of Elementary Teachers Post Engineering-Focused Professional Development Southeastern Association of Science Teacher Education. October 3-4, 2020.  

Heather Lavender. Workforce Development and Educational K-12 Outreach. Consortium for Innovations of Manufacturing and Materials, Reverse Site Visit, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA. March 23, 2018.

Heather Lavender. Bridging the Divide of STEM Awareness to Visually Impaired and Blind Students. Southeastern Association of Science Teacher Education. Birmingham, AL. October 12-14, 2018.