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NGSS Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)

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PLNs + High-Quality Units = NGSS Success

In June 2013, Kentucky’s Board of Education officially adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), which not only set a new course for sci...

By David Grossman

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Improving Elementary Science Programs Through Professional Learning Communities

“I’m not good at science.” It’s a declaration that far too many students have made in classrooms. Their beliefs are often based on lack of exp...

By Edel Maeder

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NSTA Press Book

Science Curriculum Topic Study: Bridging the Gap Between Three-Dimensional Standards, Research, and Practice, Second Edition

Scientific literacy for all students requires a deep understanding of the three dimensions of science education: disciplinary content, scientific and ...

By Page Keeley, Joyce Tugel

Elementary High School Middle School Engineering STEM Assessment Curriculum NGSS Professional Learning old Research Teacher Preparation

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Resources and Perspectives From State Science Leaders

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Bring STEM Practices Into the Secondary Classroom

STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics—is discussed in the news, politics, and education journals, yet what does it really mean fo...

By Juan-Carlos Aguilar, Anne Petersen, Megan Schrauben

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Ensuring All Elementary Students Have Access to Science Learning

Ensuring all students have access to science learning is part of the vision in A Framework for K–12 Science Education. Yet in many elementary school...

By Kathy Renfrew and Amber McCulloch

Elementary Administration Interdisciplinary Professional Learning old

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It Takes More Than Teacher Professional Development: Building Systems-Level Capacity for NGSS Implementation

When informal science institutions (ISIs) offer professional learning opportunities to teachers to support science in schools, they create the potenti...

By Dr. Vanessa Lujan

Middle School Elementary High School Administration Advocacy Multilingual Learners NGSS Professional Learning old Three-Dimensional Learning

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Partnering for Maximum Impact

The Wade Institute for Science Education has long valued the power of informal institutions to create precisely the kind of student-led inquiry-based ...

By Angela Damery

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Refashioning Informal Education to Support 3-D Learning

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Changing Mindsets Through Educator Training

MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, is a new museum in Santa Barbara, California, designed to engage visitors of all ages in construc...

By Ron Skinner, Danielle B. Harlow, and Kaia Joye Wesolowski

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