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Teaching Learning Collaborative: A Process for Supporting Professional Learning Communities
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The teaching learning collaborative (TLC) is a unique professional development strategy that engages groups of teachers in collaborative planning and teaching of a science lesson, coaching and mentoring, and examining…
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Constructive student roles for authentic collaboration in engineering design challenges
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Student roles can promote collaboration and individual accountability in groups during engineering design challenges. However, student disengagement may occur if students do not perceive value in their roles. We…
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Fostering Inclusive Collaboration: Strategies to Disrupt Inequities in Student Groupwork
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This paper examines challenges in student groupwork, emphasizing the impact of collaborative learning dynamics on outcomes. Addressing uneven participation and unintentional exclusion, it explores nuanced aspects of…
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From Birding to Robotics: Integrating STEM Learning Through Community Collaboration
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Collaboration Through Critical Service Learning—In Search of Earth’s Secrets
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Data Detectives Clubs: A Collaborative Approach to Data Science Through Epidemiology
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Collaborative Efforts to Retain New Teachers: A University-School District Partnership
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This chapter describes the Teacher to Teacher Program—a collaborative effort between Furman University and two local school districts. The program provides an avenue for improved teacher retention and mentoring. The…
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Creating Coherent Inquiry Projects to Support Students Cognition and Collaboration in Physics.
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This chapter presents an inquiry template that involves three phases: (1) students observe and reflect on phenomena and make predictions about underlying mechanisms, (2) students gather data to investigate these…
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Professional Learning Communities: School Collaboration in Implement Science Education Reform
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It has never been more important for teachers to work together. We must learn from each other, open up our classrooms, share student work, serve as mentors and coaches, and work with mentors and coaches. Until recently…
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New Models of Leadership and Collaboration to Improve Science Education: The Role of Business
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This chapter provides a brief overview of traditional business involvement in education improvement and then explores new models of involvement by business leaders in improve student outcomes in science education. These…
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Performance Assessment Tasks as a Stimulus for Collaboration Among Preservice and Inservice Teachers
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The Performance Assessment project was a collaboration initiated by a university team of instructors and a local school district in which inservice and preservice teachers developed and implemented science performance…
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Using Collaborative Digital Summary Tables to Impact Student Engagement and Learning
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This manuscript reports on the impact of using collaborative digital summary tables on student engagement and learning. First, traditional summary tables were used during two units in 7th grade life science, then more…
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Transdisciplinary learning—where students develop and apply knowledge from multiple disciplines to solve open-ended problems—is necessary to prepare students for the most pressing real-world problems. Because…
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We're all in this together: Collaborative modeling tasks for the chemistry classroom
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This article describes four collaborative activities that we facilitate to engage high school chemistry students in the scientific practice of developing and using models in a chemical bonding unit. The activities…
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As a Connected Science Learning reader, you already know that collaboration is what this journal is all about. We strive to publish articles that highlight ways different organizations come together to connect in-…