Regardless of where you are in your journey, leaders advocate for the power of HQIM to promote equitable learning opportunities for students and teachers. Join BSCS to consider the important step of building a team that works together to achieve broad and effective implementation over time.

TAKEAWAYS:
Leaders will consider the phases of curriculum implementation and the role a leadership team can play throughout the process from selection through sustaining broad and effective use.

SPEAKERS:
Jody Bintz

No set of materials are perfect. Teachers require a systematic approach to customize HQIM for use in their local context. This session will outline work that Saint Paul Public Schools and BSCS Science Learning have done to customize the OpenSciEd middle school science materials to support standards implementation and district goals. The session will describe key considerations and modifications needed to align materials with domain-specific standards, while maintaining curricular coherence from the students’ perspective, and students’ interests. The team will explain their approach to customizing select units and the professional learning approach used to support teachers in customizing summative assessments to better engage their students’ interests and science-linked identities. Leaders will analyze example customized units and teacher-designed assessments and identify important components to include in their own HQIM customization plans.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will identify what considerations are important for developing a well-crafted plan for implementing and customizing high quality instructional materials for use in local contexts.

SPEAKERS:
Molly Leifeld

The Framework for K-12 Science Education and NGSS call for 3D learning grounded in authentic phenomena and problems to ensure relevant learning for ALL students. Leaders can use instructional materials design to help teachers achieve these synergistic goals. The BSCS Anchored Inquiry Learning (AIL) instructional model succeeds the 5Es and utilizes authentic phenomena/problems to anchor multiple cycles of inquiry and sensemaking, culminating with student explanations/design solutions. AIL employs science education research emphasizing coherence from students’ perspective.In this session, participants will 1) consider how AIL integrates elements of the 5E instructional model, NextGen Science storylines, and problem-based learning instructional models; 2) consider the role of an instructional model in high quality instructional materials, and 3) consider their own education contexts and how they can apply AIL to design meaningful learning experiences to support their teachers.

TAKEAWAYS:
The research-based BSCS Anchored Inquiry Learning instructional model succeeds the successful BSCS 5E instructional model. Leaders leverage this model to support teachers in 1) developing a shared vision of effective science teaching and learning and 2) creating a student-centered classroom for all.

SPEAKERS:
Cynthia Gay

Effective implementation of HQIM requires visioning and planning. Join BSCS to learn how one district developed a plan to ensure equity for all learners in the system through broad and effective implementation of HQIM.

TAKEAWAYS:
Consider how high-quality instructional materials can be used to design more equitable systems.

SPEAKERS:
Jenine Cotton-Proby

Join BSCS to dig into one district’s efforts to enact and monitor a curriculum implementation plan. Consider how their plan incorporates system drivers and the elements of curriculum-based professional learning (CBPL) to support teachers in ensuring equitable student learning outcomes

TAKEAWAYS:
Leaders will walk away with practical approaches to considering system drivers and the elements of CBPL to support teachers in reconsidering their practice and making the shifts needed to ensure equitable outcomes for each student.

SPEAKERS:
Jody Bintz

Collecting and analyzing data to inform decision-making is an important step in sustaining broad and effective implementation of HQIM and the practices likely to improve each student’s learning. Join BSCS to dig into one district’s efforts to enact and monitor a curriculum implementation plan.

TAKEAWAYS:
One important step in sustainability of teacher and leader practices that are likely to improve the learning of each student is to collect and analyze implementation data to inform decision-making.

SPEAKERS:
Jenine Cotton-Proby