Building Effective Learning Environments: Normalize

This professional development experience for Career and Technical Education (CTE) and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educators focuses on the first of four N.E.I.R indicators of an effective learning environment: Normalize. Based on research related to a sense of belonging, education can overcome traditional gender biases and program misinformation by "normalizing" these critical career opportunities to all students beginning at an early age.