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State Superintendent Torlakson Visits CSTA President Elect Lisa Hegdahl's Classroom to Shine a Spotlight on NGSS

On April 21, 2015 State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson visited McCaffrey Middle School in Galt, CA.
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NGSS - Next Generation Science Students

For the past 10 years, students have entered my 5th and 6th grade classrooms with little science experience.
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A Teacher’s Journey: NGSS Is NOT an Add On

My students were looking at a mole of iron (602,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms more or less) and concluding that they were probably looking at one atom of iron.
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