New Regents Chemistry Labs: Just a Drop

ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED for Jan 25th, this workshop has been postponed due to Winter Storm Fern.

• Date/Time: Saturday, March 7, 2026 from 9am - 3pm
• Location: CUNY City College of NY, North Academic Center (exact room will be emailed to participants)
• Workshop Leader: Sabrina Alkayfee & Jessica Kim (bios below)
• Appropriate for: NYS Regents chemistry teachers, and those who support them.
• 6hrs of CTLE credit offered

The NYS Regents Chemistry labs have just been introduced, and we want to help you learn them. This workshop will build on strategies and structures that worked well for out Life Science series last year, and explores active learning strategies for deepening your student’s understanding of crucial conceptual models and help you effectively implement a student-centered, NGSS and NYS Regents-aligned approach tailored to physical science education. To do this, you will engage with the required experiments and activities designed to help students build a critical understanding of these models.

On Saturday, March 7th, 2026, we will run the third in the series, the Chemical Reactions: Just a Drop – Properties of Acids and Bases (PE: HS-PS1-11) lab.

You will work in both “student mode” and “teacher mode” so you can experience the lab through both lenses, and add practical tools to your teacher toolbox. We will include structured discussions about the new changes in the New York State Regents curriculum and test, strategies for accommodating district-specific curricular requirements, various student populations, laboratory resources, and more.

We welcome all teachers and administrators, both new and experienced, to join us for this engaging workshop!

Sabrina Alkayfee has been teaching high school chemistry since 2019 at the Bronx River High School, a Title I school in District 8. She has also taught Living Environment, Forensics and Biology, and is teaching in the district she grew up in (and can’t image herself anywhere else!). She considers herself a non-traditional teacher, meaning that teaching chose her, having majored in Chemistry at SUNY College at Old Westbury, and receiving her Master’s in Education (Chemistry 7-12) from St. John's University. She is of Jamaican descent, the biological mom of one, and has fostered many children over the years (including one presently). Sabrina enjoys volunteering, weight lifting, and learning more about others, and is the LGBTQ+ liaison and club advisor at her school.

Jessica Kim is a chemistry teacher at Aviation High School in NYC Public Schools with 10 years of experience and herself a product of NYC public schools. Her work is defined and informed by experience teaching in New York City and South Korea, and research at Rockefeller University. Currently a candidate in the Stony Brook Education Leadership program, Jessica brings a data-informed, student-centered approach to STEM education and teacher development.

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