Designing and implementing meaningful sustainability-focused learning involves all stake-holders in a community. Join CSSS members as they share their use of the Building Awareness for Sustainability Education (BASE) framework to advance equitable sustainability education in their communities'.

TAKEAWAYS:
Decisions about advancing sustainability education in a region should be made at the local level and include all local stake-holders.

SPEAKERS:
Carol O'Donnell (Smithsonian Science Education Center: Washington, DC), Lori Henrickson (Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction: Olympia, WA), Deb Morrison (Educator and Learning Scientist: Seattle, WA)

Participants will become familiar with an approach to develop 3-dimensional performance tasks to assess student learning. These assessment tasks use analogous phenomena that is directly aligned to the NGSS performance expectations.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will leave the session with a set of assessment items for each of the NGSS standards for the 6-8 grade band. Participants will learn how to use templates to structure the development of assessment items and experience in developing a task.

SPEAKERS:
Juan-Carlos Aguilar (Georgia Dept. of Education: Brookhaven, GA), Michele Snyder (Arkansas Dept. of Education: Little Rock, AR)

Come learn more about underlying barriers and current trends in youth outdoor participation. Building life-long relationships with the outdoors benefits students and their communities. Explore strategies and resources to create more just and equitable outdoor student learning opportunities.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will explore strategies and resources to increase outdoor student engagement and participation for more inclusive and equitable science learning.

SPEAKERS:
Lizette Navarrete-Burks (University of Houston-Downtown: Houston, TX)

Reflections of a book study of Leadership for Increasingly Diverse Schools. Presentation is about how the book study is focused on race, poverty, disabilities, LGBTQ, gender, multilingual learners, religion, family, and community advocacy.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will be given an equity audit tool to use in their district to see where there may be areas of inequities to focus on. Users of the tool can create action steps to increase a more diverse school community. Attendees will be given resources and strategies to help support them.

SPEAKERS:
Tonyea Mead (Science Education Associate: Dover, DE)

EdReports will share case studies of state partnerships and discuss how to use local priorities to drive the instructional materials adoption process.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn how to engage with their state and district to develop local priorities and establish an instructional vision, utilizing EdReports reviews of instructional materials, to make informed adoption decisions based on local context.

SPEAKERS:
Shannon Wachowski (EdReports.org: Fort Collins, CO)