The calendar below shows the professional learning events hosted by OpenSciEd and our Certified Professional Learning partners.
McNeill, K. L., Affolter, R., Lowell, B. R., Gonzalez, C. & Cherbow, K. Curriculum-based professional development to support teachers’ vision of recent shifts in science instruction.
Centering Racial Equity Issues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Can We Make Decisions to Care for Ourselves, Our Families, and Our Communities? Learn how students in grades 3–5 can explore issues of racial equity while investigating the COVID-19 pandemic, supported by family engagement and social-emotional learning. Takeaways: Participants will learn that: 1. students’ […]
Experience a contact tracing activity and explore how a storyline unit supports SEL during the pandemic while emphasizing health equity. Print http://bit.ly/MSContactTracing ahead of time. Takeaways: Participants will: 1. learn how discussions of a pandemic can be attentive to students’ social-emotional needs; 2. consider how COVID-19-focused learning can and should provoke students' thinking about how their actions affect […]
In this presentation, participants will be introduced to the Chemical Reactions unit and how three-dimensional assessment is embedded throughout the unit to support student sensemaking. Takeaways: Participants will understand: 1. the anchoring phenomena for the unit; 2. the storyline for the unit and how it supports coherence from the student perspective; and 3. the embedded assessments […]
Explore a simulation to discover how different mitigation strategies slow the spread of a virus (COVID) while experiencing a storyline around pandemics. Download: https://tinyurl.com/C19basicspread Takeaways: 1. Participants will be introduced briefly to the anchor for a storyline around things people can do to help to slow the spread of a virus, using the current pandemic from COVID-19; […]
In this interactive session, come explore how we design a 3D assessment system across an OpenSciEd unit. Grounded in a philosophy of assessment for learning, we will share approaches to gathering information on what […]
Webinar hosted by National Science Education Leadership Association. To register and for additional information, visit their site. So often, limited budgets force school systems into a situation where they have […]
Join us for this four-day virtual professional learning series focused on OpenSciEd Unit 6.1 and 7.1. We will focus on the OpenSciEd instructional model, highlighting crucial features such as: classroom […]
Join us for this four-day virtual professional learning series focused on OpenSciEd Unit 8.1. We will focus on the OpenSciEd instructional model, highlighting crucial features such as: classroom norms, driving […]
Using OpenSciEd's instructional materials (or considering it)? This is your chance to get professional learning to help you make OpenSciEd come alive in your classroom! The OpenSciEd Curriculum Launch immerses […]
RECORDING - https://vimeo.com/596234007 In this free webinar, unit author Holly Hereau from BSCS Science Learning will share the unit storyline and features. During this webinar participants will experience the anchoring […]
In this free webinar, unit author Audrey Mohan from BSCS Science Learning will share the unit storyline and features. During this webinar participants will experience the anchoring phenomenon routine and […]
