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As a Connected Science Learning reader, you already know that collaboration is what this journal is all about. We strive to publish articles that highlight ways different organizations come together to connect in-…
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Data Detectives Clubs: A Collaborative Approach to Data Science Through Epidemiology
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Collaborative Efforts to Retain New Teachers: A University-School District Partnership
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This chapter describes the Teacher to Teacher Program—a collaborative effort between Furman University and two local school districts. The program provides an avenue for improved teacher retention and mentoring. The…
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Creating Coherent Inquiry Projects to Support Students Cognition and Collaboration in Physics.
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This chapter presents an inquiry template that involves three phases: (1) students observe and reflect on phenomena and make predictions about underlying mechanisms, (2) students gather data to investigate these…
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Professional Learning Communities: School Collaboration in Implement Science Education Reform
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It has never been more important for teachers to work together. We must learn from each other, open up our classrooms, share student work, serve as mentors and coaches, and work with mentors and coaches. Until recently…
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New Models of Leadership and Collaboration to Improve Science Education: The Role of Business
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This chapter provides a brief overview of traditional business involvement in education improvement and then explores new models of involvement by business leaders in improve student outcomes in science education. These…
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Performance Assessment Tasks as a Stimulus for Collaboration Among Preservice and Inservice Teachers
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The Performance Assessment project was a collaboration initiated by a university team of instructors and a local school district in which inservice and preservice teachers developed and implemented science performance…
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Transdisciplinary learning—where students develop and apply knowledge from multiple disciplines to solve open-ended problems—is necessary to prepare students for the most pressing real-world problems. Because…
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Place-Based Cases: Museum Collaboration Develops Mock Trial CSI Cases
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Using Data To Move Schools From Resignation To Results: The Power Of Collaborative Inquiry
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In this chapter, the author studies the impact of school communities’ analysis of multiple sources of student assessment data on their instructional decisions and organizational responses. The author poses simple…
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The National Girls Collaborative Project
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Girls start off strong in math and science, participating and achieving at similar rates as boys, but lose interest and confidence in their skills as they grow older. Although equally capable, girls’ interest and…
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This article describes a cycle of teacher collaborative inquiry called the Student Experience Improvement Cycle (SEIC). The SEIC is a novel form of assessment: it focuses on supporting teachers in using evidence of the…
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This chapter addresses how to create a community of minority science teacher leaders who are not only committed to teaching in urban schools, but also to helping close the achievement gap, especially in the area of…
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After five years of developing and investigating professional learning communities (PLCs) in school districts in Arizona, the authors have uncovered attributes that differentiate high-performing PLCs from lower-…