Experience curriculum-based learning and consider how it differs from traditional professional learning. Engage in core, structural, and functional design features and enabling conditions of curriculum-based professional learning and consider implications for your work.

TAKEAWAYS:
Take away a deeper understanding of curriculum-based professional learning, ideas for how to strengthen your own work, and a copy of the book, Transforming Teaching through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning.

SPEAKERS:
Jody Bintz (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Susan Gomez Zwiep (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Jim Short (Carnegie Corporation of New York: New York, NY)

In this session, we will explore strategies for eliciting, identifying, and appreciating the range of intellectual resources students use as they make sense of phenomena.

TAKEAWAYS:
This session will help leaders work directly with educators to better appreciate students’ multiple ways of knowing and better shape instruction to support diverse sense-making through science and engineering practices.

SPEAKERS:
Angela Kolonich (Minnesota Department of Education: Minneapolis, MN), Tiffany Neill (Research Scientist: Oklahoma City, OK), Philip Bell (University of Washington: Seattle, WA)

Part 1. Examine research based approaches and enabling conditions that effective schools and systems have put in place to reinforce and amplify the power of high-quality curriculum and skillful teaching. Examine the foundation for The Elements, a challenge paper from Carnegie Corporation of New York

TAKEAWAYS:
Take away a deeper understanding of curriculum-based professional learning and insights into how the Elements were embodied in one district’s PL program.

SPEAKERS:
Susan Gomez Zwiep (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Jim Short (Carnegie Corporation of New York: New York, NY)

Part 2. Examine research based actions and enabling conditions that effective schools and systems have put in place to reinforce and amplify the power of high-quality curriculum. Consider roles and responsibilities for putting into action the elements of curriculum-based professional learning.

TAKEAWAYS:
Take away a deeper understanding of curriculum-based professional learning and ideas for how to strengthen your own work.

SPEAKERS:
Jim Short (Carnegie Corporation of New York: New York, NY), Susan Gomez Zwiep (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Jody Bintz (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO)