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Web Seminar
Archive: State Policy Landscape in 2025 and its Implications for Science Education, June 18, 2025
Stay informed on the key policy issues that could impact your classroom and your profession. Learn how to advocate for science education and ensure your voice is heard by policymakers. All individuals receive a certificate of participation and 100 N...
Web Seminar
Archive: 2025 STEM Policy Landscape, June 11, 2025
Join us for the second installment of the Advocacy in Action webinar series, featuring NSTA Policy Advisor James Brown, as he provides an insightful overview of key national policy trends shaping science, technology, engineering, and mathem...
Web Seminar
Archive: Science Teacher Compensation in a Competitive Landscape, June 4, 2025
This webinar will explore the critical policy issues it raises for state, local, and federal government policymakers. With its new statement, NSTA speaks to the issue of how our nation's schools should pay science teachers in a competitive econo...
Professional Learning Unit
Co-Constructing Classroom Agreements with Students
Science is social! Norms can support a classroom community in which students and teachers actively try to make sense of the natural and built worlds....
Member Web Seminar
Data-Driven Instruction with OpenSciEd: Using Student Insights to Improve Learning, January 22, 2026
Join us on Thursday, January 22, 2026, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET, for a dynamic web seminar designed to empower education leaders and data professionals with practical strategies for leveraging student assessment data to improve teaching and learnin...
Member Web Seminar
Teacher Leadership and OpenSciEd: How to Build a Community of Science Educators, December 3, 2025
Great science teaching grows stronger through collaboration, leadership, and shared vision. Join us on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET, for a dynamic, stakeholder-led web seminar designed for science educators, leaders and pro...
Member Web Seminar
Engaging Parents & Communities in OpenSciEd Science Learning, November 18, 2025
Strong science instruction does not stop at the classroom door but it thrives when families and communities are engaged in the learning journey....
Web Seminar
Implementing OpenSciEd transforms science teaching—but it also comes with a learning curve for educators. Key Topics: Overview of the teacher support materials in OpenSciEd Common challenges in classroom implementation—and how ...
Web Seminar
Implementing OpenSciEd transforms science teaching—but it also comes with a learning curve for educators. Key Topics: Overview of the teacher support materials in OpenSciEd Common challenges in classroom implementation—and how ...
Web Seminar Series
Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms: A Professional Book Study for K-8 Teachers
This web seminar series, scheduled on February 4, 11, 18, and 25, 2026, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Eastern Time, offers an opportunity to K-8 teachers to learn about the use of science notebooks in the classroom....
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, May 27, 2025
By Debra Shapiro
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, May 20, 2025
By Debra Shapiro
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, May 13, 2025
By Debra Shapiro
Web Seminar Series
Archive: Making Sense of Meaningful STEM: A Topic Study for K-12 STEM Educators
This web seminar series, scheduled on September 3, 10, 17, and 24 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Eastern Time, offers an opportunity to develop or deepen your understanding of how phenomenon-driven, three-dimensional teaching and learning form the foundatio...
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, May 6, 2025
By Debra Shapiro