Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

One strand of the learning arc for the professional learning series is how to foster CR-SE using the curriculum materials through: using phenomena to connect to student ideas, lives, and communities, encouraging and validating diverse ways of science knowing and learning, using instructional routines to facilitate student agency, and incorporating justice-centered learning that focuses on developing a critical lens of science and society. One interesting area of learning will be how to incorporate these components not only into in-person learning but into virtual sessions.

Literacy

One strand of the learning arc for the professional learning series is how to support Multilingual Learners (MLLs) in accessing the curriculum through: embedded scaffolds, making student prior knowledge and ideas visible, and the implementation of the transfer learning routine. Additionally, the on-site coaching support is based on the Science Coaching Tool, which can be used to structure coaching conversations on how teachers are using the curriculum materials and instructional routines to promote equitable access for all students including MLLs.

Adult Learning

This project will incorporate the SIMPL model in all in-person and virtual professional learning.

• Elizabeth Chatham
• Devin Foschi
• Rebecca Miller
• John Salazar
• Caroline Suh
• Jonathan Tam
• Andrea Velikov
• Dora Kastel