The Colorado Science Conference for Professional Development is a one-day conference that provides professional development regarding science content, education strategy, and research. The conference is geared towards anyone interested in science education, including K-12 teachers, college instructors, informal educators, administrators, pre-service teachers, and retired teachers. OpenSciEd will be presenting a session about their materials at this […]

A framework with a research-based vision for science teaching and learning has led to new science standards across three-fourths of the U.S. Focus on the key instructional shifts targeted by these standards, including the central role of using students’ own questions to drive their learning and connecting students’ science learning to their own lives. Discover […]

In 2020, Carnegie Corporation of New York released a challenge paper calling on school and system leaders, teachers and coaches, and all specialists in professional learning to transform teaching and learning through the elements and essentials of curriculum-based professional learning. Join us for an engaging panel discussion with OpenSciEd professional learning designers and facilitators around […]

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.