Creating and Using Instructionally Supportive Assessments in NGSS Classrooms

NSTA Press Book | February 2024

Imagine handing out assessments that spark enthusiasm rather than dread. In six easy-to-follow steps, this book empowers science teachers to create tasks that guide students to use their knowledge, not just memorize…

Flight of the Bumblebee

Journal Article | August 2020

Project-Based Learning: Principles to Sustain Student Learning and Teacher Change in Practice - Part 2

Professional Learning Unit | September 2023

Have you wanted to implement a Project-Based Learning (PBL) unit in your classroom? Would you like to introduce PBL curriculum in your school? Multiple Literacies in Project-Based Learning (ML-PBL), an open educational…

Project-Based Learning: Principles to Sustain Student Learning and Teacher Change in Practice - Part 1

Professional Learning Unit | July 2023

Have you wanted to implement a Project-Based Learning (PBL) unit in your classroom? Would you like to introduce PBL curriculum in your school? Multiple Literacies in Project-Based Learning (ML-PBL), an open educational…

What's So Special About Disciplinary Core Ideas? (Part 3)

Blog Post | February 2017

DCIs Develop Across Time The first two blogs in my series on disciplinary core ideas (DCIs) focused on how DCIs form a conceptual framework and that DCIs provide explanations for a variety of phenomena. In this final…

What’s So Special about Disciplinary Core Ideas (Part 2)

Blog Post | January 2017

DCIs provide explanations for a variety of phenomena Last month I talked about how disciplinary core ideas (DCIs) form a conceptual framework. Now, I’d like to explore the idea that DCIs provide explanations for a…

What's so Special about Disciplinary Core Ideas? (Part 1)

Blog Post | December 2016

  I still remember the day Helen Quinn asked if she could visit me at the University of Michigan where I was a professor to discuss the Framework for K–12 Science Education (Framework) and possible roles I might…