This year, something unexpected happened in my science classrooms: students didn’t want the units to end. Their reaction signaled something deeper than engagement; they experienced learning as meaningful, self-driven, and hopeful. This article…

In a school year defined by tight schedules, rising expectations, and newly emerging district AI policies, many science educators are asking the same question: How can I use AI to save time without sacrificing NGSS rigor or equity?

The Making Kepler Click lesson series helps teachers make Kepler’s Laws meaningful through hands-on modeling, data analysis, and student discourse grounded in the Five Practices Framework.

This workshop at the 2025 CASE Conference in Palm Springs used the instructional practices from the book Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning, and applied them to the science classroom. In…

How can educators leverage state-provided resources to strengthen instruction, build assessment confidence, and ultimately support student mastery—without adding more to their plates?

In classrooms across the country, the first ten minutes of the day often disappear into routines that check boxes but don’t ignite thinking. Worksheets. Quiet compliance. Tasks students rush through or copy. As I shared in my Science That Sticks…

How do we help students grasp the vastness of the universe and the invisible forces that shape it? In the Dance of the Universe workshop at the 2025 CASE Conference, a collaboration between the Solano County of Education and Lawrence Berkeley…

In our conference workshop, we only had a small window to scratch the surface of what becomes possible when students explore climate solutions that are emerging right in their own communities. One of the pieces I wished we’d had more time for was the…