Science Education Conference
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…
