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Category: Instructional Resources
Building Capacity for Teaching Engineering
The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has just released a new publication, Building Capacity for Teaching Engineering in K-12 Education, available as a FREE downloadable document. This publication reviews existing curricula and programs, as well as related research…
Read MoreSTEAM at Home
With the recent closure of schools as a local, state and national health safety response to the Covid-19 Virus Pandemic, a group of colleagues and I have assembled a set of outstanding FREE resources for students, parents and teachers to…
Read MoreEvaluating Cognitive Complexity in Science Assessments
Achieve has released a new publication, A Framework to Evaluate Cognitive Complexity in Science Assessments, which focuses on a new approach to capture and communicate the complexity of summative assessment items and tasks designed for three-dimensional standards. This framework can…
Read MoreOpenSciEd: FREE NGSS-aligned Resource Units
A group of state education agencies, working with school districts, classroom educators, experienced science curriculum developers and the science education community, created and field tested a complete set of robust, research-based, open-source science instructional materials that are aligned to the…
Read MoreTraining Dates for “TIME”
Statewide trainings for California’s Toolkit for Instructional Materials Evaluation (TIME) are now available to district teams moving forward with their science adoption. Based on comprehensive, collaborative work by CSTA, CISC, K-12 Alliance, California Science Project and County Offices of Education,…
Read MoreState Board Approves Science Instructional Materials
At the November 8-9, 2018 meeting, the CA State Board of Education approved the largest number of publisher instructional materials (IM) for science in the history of state adoptions. Click here to download the list of approved publisher materials: CDE_2018…
Read MoreUpdate on NGSS Instructional Materials Adoption
CSTA has just released an excellent update on the current status of NGSS Instructional Materials Adoption as it pertains to (1) K-8 Adoption; (2) Standards Maps for High School; (3) Resources for Reviewing Instructional Materials; (4) CSTA White Paper: Priority…
Read MoreAchieve Releases Performance Task Screening Tools
This past week, Achieve released two new tools that will assist teachers in evaluating science assessment tasks to determine whether they accommodate for the three-dimensionality of NGSS. The Science Task Prescreen is used to conduct a quick review of assessment tasks…
Read MoreCalifornia EEI Curriculum: Newly NGSS-Aligned
The FREE K-12 Environmental Education Initiative Curriculum is now aligned with NGSS and offers great “storylines” to frame your instruction and help build powerful stewards of Mother Earth. The 85 available units provide lessons and resources that support the teaching…
Read MoreNGSS Alignment Claims: What Publishers Are Saying
Achieve has just posted on their website, NGSS Alignment Claims: What Publishers are Saying, which will help you sort through and be aware of the many claims currently being made by publishers regarding their instructional materials alignment to NGSS. Keep…
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