On January 29-30, 2018, Dr. Brian Mandell, Division Director for Curriculum & Communications, will be the keynote speaker at the annual conference of Science Education Council of Ohio (SECO), the Ohio Chapter of the National Science Teachers Association, where he will talk about the work of the Smithsonian Science Education Center's efforts to research and develop curriculum materials that address the five strands of the conference: (1) design and engineering principles; (2) resources for inquiry-learning; (3) earth, life, and physical science content; (4) the integration of arts and literacy into science curriculum; and, (5) the integration of math and technology into science teaching.