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Personalizing NGSS Learning Sequences for Your Students
Since the California State Board of Education’s adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in Fall of 2013, science educators across California have sought out curriculum to address the shifts they demand.
A Partnership Between Formal and Informal Educators Through Environmental Literacy
NGSS is about three-dimensional learning intended to have students work as scientists and engineers do: to explain phenomena and solve problems.
Opening the Door to Science: Changing the Student Experience
Science had traditionally been seen as the domain of the hyper-intelligent student.
Science Classrooms Enriched by Productive Talk
Talking is an integral part of the human world which allows us to engage with each other.
NGSS Lesson Study: Both Teachers and Students Make Thinking Visible
In the fall of 2013, our CA NGSS K-8 Early Implementation Initiative team was eager to get to work.
Beyond Marshmallow Towers - Engineering in the Early Elementary Classroom
Elementary teachers in Kings Canyon Unified School District (KCUSD), a participating district in the CA NGSS K-8 Early Implementation Initiative, have been diligently working on transitioning to the NGSS in their classrooms.
That’s My SCIENCE Teacher!
As I walk across my school campus, a second-grade student says, “Hi Ms. Nielsen.” I return the greeting, with a smile and a chuckle.
Integrating Science & ELA: Discoveries from the Early Implementer Evaluators
A second-grade classroom is “a-buzz” with students drawing designs and researching pollinators.
NGSS and the Teaching Learning Collaborative: It’s About the Process
The CA Next Generation Science Standards (CA NGSS) require significant instructional and conceptual shifts in terms of how science instruction is planned, delivered, and assessed (NGSS Lead States, 2013). With several California Math Science…
The Teaching and Learning Collaborative, Reflections from an Administrator
I see my role as an assistant principal being an educational leader charged with supporting and leading students, staff, and community into the future based on our school community’s shared values, beliefs, and principles; these guide decisions for…