Learn equity-focused strategies for centering students and their communities while teaching with NGSS-designed instructional materials. Using a localizing framework, you will explore examples created by teams of K-12 educators and consider how to adapt and apply these strategies in your own context

TAKEAWAYS:
Leave with research-based tools and strategies that incorporate community assets, families, and student’s funds of knowledge into your science units to help your students see how science is relevant in their lives and their communities.

SPEAKERS:
Brad Street, Rebecca Abbott

This session broadens understanding of student participation in science education by emphasizing idea sharing, dialogue, and collaboration. Participants will explore strategies to promote equity of voice and diverse ways of demonstrating understanding while identifying effective teaching moves to en

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will leave with adaptable strategies to enhance student participation and discourse in science classrooms. They will learn how to create an engaging environment that promotes visible thinking and supports diverse learners through responsive teaching.

SPEAKERS:
Christopher Hernandez, Rose Ventimiglia, Grace Andrews

Gain strategies and tools for enhancing opportunities for computational thinking in your current high school life or physical science curriculum. Bring current lessons and leave with concrete ideas for helping students engage authentically in the SEP of Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will take home strategies and tools based on the Computational Thinking for Science Framework that they can use to enhance opportunities for CT-S in any high school science curriculum. They will receive immediate feedback on lesson modifications they can implement in their classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Maia Binding, Eric Greenwald, Wendy Jackson

Attendees will participate in hands-on, inquiry-based classroom activities and demonstrations based on research involving air quality, algae, bees, flies, and macroinvertebrates. We will showcase how these activities, using flexible resources, help students build essential scientific skills.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators will be equipped with different strategies and contexts to promote students’ engagement and essential scientific practices through hands-on activities and demonstrations that focus on air quality, algae, bees, flies, and macroinvertebrates.

SPEAKERS:
Carlos Vazquez Vargas, Marisel Cherena-Martinez, Aixa López Muñoz, Michelle Borrero, Jacqueline Lopez, Wilmari Torres-Ortiz, Yajaira Torres - De Jesus, Myraida Torres Cotto, Elianid Espinosa

Experience how leveraging genetic and environmental risk for complex disease as authentic phenomena supports student understanding through 3D teaching and learning. Learn how the BSCS Anchored Inquiry Learning instructional model develops student agency that leads to individual and community action.

TAKEAWAYS:
The research-based BSCS Anchored Inquiry Learning instructional model succeeds the 5Es and leverages complex societal issues as anchoring phenomena/problems, culminating tasks, and performance assessments in 3D units of instruction to motivate students and develop agency in addressing these issues.

SPEAKERS:
Nancy Hopkins-Evans, Cynthia Gay

NGSS Core Ideas support students as they investigate phenomena. Learn how providing students with Core Ideas throughout 3D investigations results in enhanced learning for all students, and how to support students in using and applying Core Ideas in the classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will leave with a better understanding of the utility of NGSS Core Ideas in science investigations, and with tools and strategies for supporting all students in using and applying Core Ideas, rather than simply confirming them.

SPEAKERS:
Stacey Van der Veen, Wil Van der Veen