Catherine Saldutti will keynote the BC Science Roundtable event on May 22, 2026 at SUIS-Jiaoke Campus BC High. She will present “Science Brainfood: Disciplinary Literacy That Nourishes Learning.”

While literacy threads through all content areas, the pedagogies, protocols and practices that support science learning are somewhat different and should be honored accordingly. STEM competencies like questioning, analysis, experimental and engineering design, data work, and laboratory practices lie beneath those AI-generated answers on which some students rely. Disciplinary literacy strategies help students dig beneath the surface and take more ownership of their learning. Grounded in the sciences of learning and development, disciplinary literacy connects STEM rigor and relevance. Drawing from over 26 years of interdisciplinary science curricular designs, I’ll share some of my favorite tools that work for all secondary science subjects. We’ll use them to support students’ cognitive access to your content and bolster reading, writing, speaking and listening for STEM. Come to this session with a laptop and have a couple of hands-on laboratory assignments handy.