Friday, September 21, 2012

9/21 Meetings!

Today started with a trip to the office.  I dropped off the items from the grade level pd days at Steger.  I clean up and organized the office to set up to have a REALLY productive Monday.

at 8:30 went to Central office for a Coordinators meeting, some of the topics included:

  • How do we assess wonder and confusion?
  • Debrief DLT meeting
  • Edline
  • What's a broad learning goal?
  • Curriculum templates
  • MAP data reports
  • CnI Server space organization and usage



At 12:00 went to the St. Louis Science Leaders' Consortium at St. Louis Science Center.

  • Welcome
  • What is SSLC?
    • Where are they from
    • How can we work together?
    • Work smarter/not harder
    • Connection to SLACCA

  • Betsy O'Day - boday@hallsville.org
    • Member of next generation standards writing team
    • Past history to Current framework
    • nap.edu has resources for FREE to download
    • Conceptual shifts
      • K-12 science education should reflect the REAL WORLD interconnectedness in science
      • Using all practices and crosscutting concepts to teach all core ideas all year
      • Science concepts build coherently across K-12
      • Focus on deeper understandings and application of content
      • integration fo science and engineering
      • Coordination with CCSS
    • Dimensions of NGSS
      • Practices
      • Crosscutting concepts
      • Core ideas
    • NGSS breaks down to outcomes listed in grades 2,3,5,6,8, 9, 12.
    • Scientific and Engineering practices are end of 12 outcomes.
    • Practices
      • Asking questions and defining problems are keys
      • Developing and using models (Elementary focused on using models)
      • Planning and carrying out investigations
      • Analyzing and interpreting data
      • Mathematics and computational thinking
      • Constructing Explanations (Scientific and Engineering) See research on Claims, Evidence and Reasoning and here too.
      • Engaging in Argument from evidence
      • Obtaining Evaluating and communicating information
    • Crosscutting practices
      • Patterns
      • Cause and Effect
      • Scale, proportion, quality
      • Systems and system models
      • Energy and matter
      • Structure and function
      • Stability and change
    • Physical Science
      • Matter and its interactions
      • motion and stability
      • energy
      • waves and their applications
    • Life Sciences
      • Molecules to organisms
      • Ecosystems
      • Heredity
      • Biological Evolution
    • Earth and Space science
    • Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Sciences
      • Design
      • Links among E,T,S and Society
  • Core ideas have BROAD importance, Key concepts or tools, and spark interests and life experiences of students.
  • The NGSS has 41 teachers as a part of the design team
  • Don't jump the gun here, WAIT!  If you do, write to the framework.
  • Reading the NGSS
    • Students can demonstrate understanding can...
    • Performance expectations were developed with the 
    • Science and engineering, disciplinary, crosscutting concepts
    • Connection boxes in same grade level/band
    • Articulation above or below
    • Connected to CCSS

  • Needs Survey - Tabled


  • Goal Setting - Tabled

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