The calendar below shows the professional learning events hosted by OpenSciEd and our Certified Professional Learning partners.
We will share updates and gather feedback on the development of OpenSciEd's High School program. This effort was launched in January of 2021 and we will hopefully have updates on the scope and sequence and development timelines to share with everyone in addition to sharing ways that states and districts outside of our ten partner […]
Cherbow, K. & McNeill, K. L. Teacher planning for epistemic agency in discussion-based, storyline unit lessons.
Lee, S., Anderson, S., Mendez Perez, K., McNeill, K. L. Evaluating Educative Features for Emergent Multilingual Learners' Opportunities to Learn and Support for Three-dimensional Science and Language instruction.
Lowell, B. R., Cherbow, K. & McNeill, K. L. Using a discussion types framework to support collective sensemaking.
McNeill, K. L., Affolter, R., Lowell, B. R., Gonzalez, C. & Cherbow, K. Curriculum-based professional development to support teachers’ vision of recent shifts in science instruction.
Centering Racial Equity Issues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Can We Make Decisions to Care for Ourselves, Our Families, and Our Communities? Learn how students in grades 3–5 can explore issues of racial equity while investigating the COVID-19 pandemic, supported by family engagement and social-emotional learning. Takeaways: Participants will learn that: 1. students’ […]
Experience a contact tracing activity and explore how a storyline unit supports SEL during the pandemic while emphasizing health equity. Print http://bit.ly/MSContactTracing ahead of time. Takeaways: Participants will: 1. learn how discussions of a pandemic can be attentive to students’ social-emotional needs; 2. consider how COVID-19-focused learning can and should provoke students' thinking about how their actions affect […]
In this presentation, participants will be introduced to the Chemical Reactions unit and how three-dimensional assessment is embedded throughout the unit to support student sensemaking. Takeaways: Participants will understand: 1. the anchoring phenomena for the unit; 2. the storyline for the unit and how it supports coherence from the student perspective; and 3. the embedded assessments […]
Explore a simulation to discover how different mitigation strategies slow the spread of a virus (COVID) while experiencing a storyline around pandemics. Download: https://tinyurl.com/C19basicspread Takeaways: 1. Participants will be introduced briefly to the anchor for a storyline around things people can do to help to slow the spread of a virus, using the current pandemic from COVID-19; […]
In this interactive session, come explore how we design a 3D assessment system across an OpenSciEd unit. Grounded in a philosophy of assessment for learning, we will share approaches to gathering information on what ideas and experiences students are bringing into a unit, formative assessment throughout the unit, and how transfer tasks ask students to apply their 3D understanding to new […]
Webinar hosted by National Science Education Leadership Association. To register and for additional information, visit their site. So often, limited budgets force school systems into a situation where they have to choose between instructional materials or professional learning. OpenSciEd is developing OER instructional materials for K-12 science to disrupt these past practices and ensure access […]
Join us for this four-day virtual professional learning series focused on OpenSciEd Unit 6.1 and 7.1. We will focus on the OpenSciEd instructional model, highlighting crucial features such as: classroom norms, driving question boards, student discourse, and student sense-making. In your grade level specific groups, you will explore the unit’s anchoring phenomenon and several other […]
