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Save Hours with AI: NGSS-Aligned Science Lessons in a Click
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?
Making Kepler Click
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.
Engaging Educators with Building Thinking Classrooms in Science K-12
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…
If You Give a Hawk a Mouse, You’ll Need a Lesson Plan and Assessment Tools to Go With It
How can educators leverage state-provided resources to strengthen instruction, build assessment confidence, and ultimately support student mastery—without adding more to their plates?
Science That Sticks: Three Simple Shifts That Help Every Learner Thrive
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…
Dance of the Universe: Using Kinesthetic Modeling to Bring Astronomy to Life
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…
Bringing Climate in the Classroom to Life through Roads to Removal
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…
Cultivating Resilience and Real Science in the Classroom with the FRYS Network
On a foggy morning in California’s Central Valley, a group of high school students gather around a classroom fish tank. Inside, salmon are swimming– some moving quickly, others resting at the bottom, gills pulsing, but bodies still. “That one has a…
ATLAS: Bringing Authentic Science Performance Tasks into California Classrooms
Imagine a world where assessments surface students’ science understanding in ways that parallel the instructional shifts the California Science Framework calls for. Imagine assessments that support teachers in eliciting, noticing, valuing, and…