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Continue reading →: Instructional Leadership for Science Practices
OVERVIEW: The Instructional Leadership for Science Practices (ILSP) is a project to support school principals and other instructional leaders in supporting shifts in science education practices. Their site provides multiple tools for instructional leaders to use in developing their own understanding of the required shifts in practices and how to…
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Continue reading →: Supporting Productive Science Talk: STEM Teaching Tool #48
OVERVIEW: You probably don’t need me to tell you this- but the STEMteachingtools.org site has created and curated an amazing set of resources for supporting the implementation of effective science teaching and learning through the NGSS. One of the latest tools in #48 titled: How can teachers guide classroom conversations to…
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Continue reading →: NGSS District Implementation Indicators
OVERVIEW: A short document titled- Next Generation Science Standards District Implementation Indicators was recently released on the Nextgenscience.org site. This document was built with multiple partners around the US and includes thoughtful recommendations using 13 Indicators of Success. PURPOSE: This document provides school district leaders with guidance for moving beyond…
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Continue reading →: Seeing Students Learn Science: Integrating Assessment and Instruction in the Classroom
OVERVIEW: Seeing Students Learn Science is a new FREE document from The National Academies Press. This publication in meant to help us improve our understanding of how students actually learn science and to provide guidance as we modify and adapt our instruction and assessment practices. The document contains 6 sections:…
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Continue reading →: Video Case: Powerful Engineering Example
I’m always looking for powerful examples of engineering to share with teachers and students. This is one of my current favorites- the story of designing an elegantly simple microscope and centrifuge that can save countless lives around the world. Enjoy!
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Continue reading →: Learning Targets in a NGSS Classroom
OVERVIEW: I have had several conversations with teachers and administrators about how learning targets, objectives, and success criteria should look different in science learning than they might in other content areas. Some of these conversations have been greeted with skepticism (to say the least) so it will be nice to…
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Continue reading →: Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
OVERVIEW: I have owned Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Monroe (Creator of xkcd) for about a year. I keep it in my office and a few times a month I find myself opening it up and spending several minutes examining the brilliant labeled diagrams (they are…
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Continue reading →: NGSS Lesson Screener
OVERVIEW: The NGSS Lesson Screener is a tool designed for quickly reviewing a science learning sequence to see if the design is 3 Dimensional and on the road to meeting the expectations and shifts of the NGSS. This tool might also be useful to use prior to the more extensive…
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Continue reading →: NGSS Now: January 2017
OVERVIEW: Each month Achieve releases an NGSS Now Newsletter. You can sign up HERE to receive the newsletter via email. NGSS Now has a series of standard columns including: Featured Standards, Science Phenomenon, and Question of the Month. I find this to be a very useful resource. PURPOSE: The NGSS Now…
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Continue reading →: Next Generation Science Assessment Tasks: Bethel School District
OVERVIEW: Tom Hathorn, K-12 Science Specialist for the Bethel School District in Washington State, has worked with his science team to create a spectacular set of grade 6-12 science formative assessment tasks for understanding the Next Generation Science Standards. These assessments are designed to be “objects of study” as we all continue…
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