Want to establish a TK–5 classroom culture inclusive of all learners? Come experience how connecting Next Generation Science Standards and Social Justice Standards promotes inclusivity.

TAKEAWAYS:
1. Experience a hands-on NGSS lesson; 2. Opportunity to get to know the Social Justice standards; and 3. Numerous resources to support science and social justice in your learning spaces.

SPEAKERS:
Channon Jackson (Alameda County Office of Education: Hayward, CA), Nancy Wright (Hayward Unified School District: Hayward, CA)

This interactive session explores how having young children intentionally observe, discuss, and edit drafts of drawings is highly effective and equitable to build young children's scientific understanding.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will use the “drawing like a scientist” strategy to: 1. explore the equity issues in using strategies that do not depend on verbal proficiency in a privileged language to support young children in acquiring and representing scientific understanding; 2. identify how using a “draft” approach allows young children beginning in preschool to experience NRC’s strand 4 Participating Productively in Science; and 3. examine how young children need many engaging authentic experiences to develop understanding that science process skills such as observing, representing, and analyzing data are closely interrelated.

SPEAKERS:
Mary Hynes-Berry (Erikson Institute: Chicago, IL)