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Making Mendel’s Model Manageable
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Genetics is often a fascinating but difficult subject for middle level students. They can see the results of genes in every organism, but trying to visualize what happens at the level of genes is challenging for…
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Looking Forward Into the 21st Century: Implications for the Science Leader
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Science education and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education are often used interchangeably. As science educators in search of our place in STEM education, we face a professional identity…
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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…
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Bending the Professional Teaching Continuum: How Teacher Renewal Supports Teacher Retention
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This chapter is built on the premise that science teachers develop their practice along a professional continuum that consists of recruitment, preparation, new teacher induction, ongoing professional development, and…
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No Boundaries: The Role of Mobility in Recruiting New Teachers and Developing New Leaders
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The development of teacher leaders in any discipline is hindered when the pool of available candidates is shallow, and developing science leaders—whether at the classroom, district, state, or national level—largely…
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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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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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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…
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Care to Share? The Marymount School Science Department Professional Development Program
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This chapter reveals how one school, The Marymount School of New York, developed a goal-setting model. This model effectively promotes innovation in the classroom, in the curriculum, and in the school and involves…
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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…
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Science Communication and Public Engagement With Science
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It is the responsibility of all who have a passion for science and science education to serve as ambassadors of science because we need as many great communicators of science as possible. The first section of this…
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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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A New Challenge for Science Education Leaders: Developing 21st-Century Workforce Skills
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Contemporary justification for a vision of improved science education resides in themes such as education and the economy, basic skills for the workforce, and thinking for a living. Such themes differ from earlier…
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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…
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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…
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