High School Classroom Culture
Biology Unit 2
Ecosystems: Matter & Energy

OpenSciEd is partnering with Boston Public Schools to bring this two-day in-person professional learning session focuses on developing a classroom culture that supports equitable sensemaking. The professional learning explicitly focuses on equity, classroom culture, and classroom sensemaking discussions. It assumes the prerequisite completion of the Launch OpenSciEd Professional Development and previous experience teaching an OpenSciEd unit.

Included in this session are opportunities for teachers to:

• Reflect on shifts in classroom culture that support equitable sensemaking.
• Examine student video and learning scenarios to recognize the range of resources students use to make sense of science, consider the features of classroom culture, and identify strategies to support the three main discussion types used in OpenSciEd.
• Identify pedagogical implications and strategies for supporting the development of classroom culture and leveraging student resources.
• Engage in the actual lessons of the unit as a student.

All of the instructional materials associated with this professional learning session are available for download from the instructional materials page.

Learn more about the session’s agenda here.

Teachers:

Thanks to the partnership with Boston Public Schools, we’re able to offer this event for $325. This event is typically $500 per seat.

• Two days of face-to-face professional learning  – June 17-18th
• Hours: 8:30 AM- 3:30 PM Eastern (ET) daily
• Event location:  205 Roxbury St, Roxbury, MA, 02119

Registration closing date: June 7th, 2024