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  • Leadership and Lessons Learned

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    This chapter takes you through five key points for putting an “explore-before-explain” mind-set into practice using Predict, Observe, and Explain (POE) and 5E sequences, as well as the Next Generation Science Standards…

  • Leadership for Public Understanding of Science

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    Science is generally considered to be one of the most important subjects in the school curriculum, even if it does not receive as much attention as math and reading-language arts, which have always formed the central…

  • Leadership Can Make the Difference

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    This chapter takes you through five key lessons to putting an explore-before-explain mindset into practice using POE (Predict, Observe, and Explain) and 5E (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate)…

  • Leadership by and for Science Teachers (Book Sample)

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    Imagine having the opportunity to hear from 21 colleagues about their personal leadership journeys—and to get their advice. Leadership by and for Science Teachers is just such an opportunity. Author Rodger Bybee…

  • Assessing Assessment to Inform Science Leadership

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    This chapter uses the ReaL Earth System Science project as a metaphor for investigating the landscape of assessment in science education. This framing turns the focus of the five questions away from the Earth system and…

  • The Many Faces of Leadership in a Complex Environment

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    While the full implementation of the leadership approach recommended in this chapter has many facets, the foundation of that leadership style is to “keep you eye on the prize.” That is, every decision should consider at…

  • Content Coverage in the Role of Instructional Leadership

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    The variability in content coverage is likely to produce differences in student learning outcomes. The authors use this variability to reinforce their view that the management of content coverage, including association…

  • The Role of Teacher Leadership in Science Education

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    Professional development activities deepen content knowledge, support inquiry-based teaching, help teachers tap into student thinking, and assist in implementing curriculum materials and interpreting assessment systems…

  • Developing and Sustaining Leadership in Science Education

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    It can be argued that the most important guiding force leading to a teacher’s continued improvement is having a good role model, such as a colleague who is an experienced leader. This chapter provides a detailed…

  • Technology Leadership for the 21st Century

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    This chapter addresses (a) how transformational leadership in the educational community is crucial for effective and appropriate infusion of educational technology as a fundamental part of K-12 education; (b) how…

  • National Conference on Science Education Denver 2024 Leadership Perspectives for Science Teachers

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    National Conference on Science Education Denver 2024 Leadership Perspectives for Science Teachers

  • Leadership in Science Education for the 21st Century

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    In the early decades of the 21st century, science educators face some problems unique to the times and some common to all eras. Some of the issues will be with us for the relative brief time of political administrations…

  • The Role of Leadership in Fostering Inquiry-Based Learning and Teaching

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    In this chapter, the author first address the concepts of inquiry and leadership presented in the National Science Education Standards (NRC 1996). Then presents examples of leaders who foster inquiry-based learning…

  • Leadership for New Teachers: How to Turn the Job Into a Career

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    Finally, this chapter talks about how to translate your enthusiasm and energy into becoming a young leader in the world of science education. It will look at possible future career aspirations that science teachers can…

  • Perspectives on Science Education: A Leadership Seminar (Book Sample)

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    This book delivers what the title promises: perspectives on leadership and science education, presented in the form of a simulating seminar. Authors Rodger Bybee and Stephen Pruitt are two of science educator's most…

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