Regents Chemistry Labs

• LOCATION: CUNY City College of NY campus in the North Academic Center building, located at 137th St. and Amsterdam Ave., Manhattan
• DATE & TIME: Monday, July 6 - Thursday, July 9, 2026, 9am - 3pm daily.
• LED BY: Sabrina Alkayfee, Kara Luce, and Jessica Kim
• CTLE AVAILABLE: 24
• THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR: NY Chemistry Regents teachers

The NYS Regents Chemistry labs were revised and introduced statewide this past school year, and we want to help you learn to teach them! This workshop will build on strategies and structures developed to explore the new labs in all four subjects over the past two years, 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.

In this four day workshop, you will engage with each of the labs’ required experiments and activities. In the mornings, you will mainly be in “student mode” where you will perform each in a small group, as per the directions, with analysis and reporting out. In the afternoon, we will switch to “teacher mode” and you will discuss topics like how to implement that lab, when and how to build it into your plan, troubleshooting that may come up, differentiation, local requirements, and modifications you can make. An additional day will be focussed on extra tools you can bring back to your classroom. Expect the following structure:

• Day 1 - Lab: Structures and Properties of Matter: The Fast and the Fragrant – Evaporation and Intermolecular Forces (PE: HS-PS1-3)
• Day 2 - Lab: Chemical Reactions: Just a Drop – Properties of Acids and Bases (PE: HS-PS1-11)
• Day 3 - Lab: Properties of Matter: Bend and Stretch – Structure and Function of Designed Materials (PE: HS-PS2-6)
• Day 4 - practical day with hands-on AI tools to help you create cluster questions, homework sets, and test prep, PLUS a make-and-take activity so you can bring a class set of conductivity probes to your classroom.

(The ordering of the lab days above is tentative, and subject to change.)

We welcome all teachers and administrators, both new and experienced, to join us for this engaging workshop to help your students and you make the most of Regents Chemistry next year!

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 imagine 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 over a decade 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.

Kara Luce has been a teacher for 20+ years, teaching in a variety of settings in multiple states. While she has taught everything from 7th grade math to honors Physics, the one constant has always been chemistry. Kara has been working with and training educators in the NGSS standards since 2013, and has been a part of STEMteachersNYC since moving to the tri-state area in 2017.

is celebrating 15 years! Since 2011, we have delivered professional development workshops for teachers, by teachers, about teaching. We are an approved CTLE and NYCPS MTAC vendor. All workshops over 2hrs offer CTLE. Below is some important information, but please see our official on our website for full details and policies.

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