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The K20 Model develops professional learning communities (PLCs) and has been successful in district-wide and school initiatives across Oklahoma. It is based on four interrelated structures for engaging people in…
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Book Chapter |
Two settings build the premise for this chapter and comprise the Connecting Humans and Nature through Conservation Experiences (CHANCE) program. The first setting is a summer field course in Costa Rica and the second is…
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Book Chapter |
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-…
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How to Review a Professional Learning Unit
Professional Learning Unit |
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Professional Learning Unit |
Recent research on race, language, and culture are working to re-shape science teaching and learning. As educators, how we say things can have an enormous impact on students’ sense of belonging. This Professional…
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Discussing Science in Professional Learning Communities
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Teachers collaborate to transform next generation science teaching and learning.
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How to Create a Professional Learning Community
Journal Article |
Devoting time to a professional learning community (PLC) can be frustrating or rewarding. The authors have experienced both of these outcomes and can share processes that may help make your PLC one that enriches your…
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Engaging Students in Developing and Using Models
Professional Learning Unit |
This Professional Learning Unit will provide educators strategies for supporting K-12 students in beginning to develop the knowledge and skills needed to engage with this practice. Educators will also recognize the…
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Supporting Equitable Sensemaking - A Strategy for Educators
Professional Learning Unit |
How do students build targeted science ideas and concepts? The Supporting Equitable Sensemaking - A Strategy for Educators PLU explores how the use of modalities and intentional student interactions create opportunity…
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The Importance of Professional Development
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Editor's Corner: Learning to Like Professional Development
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Science teachers today face unprecedented opportunities for professional development. From genomics to planetary exploration, new scientific discoveries are announced almost daily, discoveries that are changing our…
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Learning Disabilities A learning disability (LD) is a neurological disorder that causes difficulty in organizing information received, remembering it, and expressing it, and therefore affects a person's basic functions such as reading, writing, comprehension, and reasoning. In simple terms, a…