Sharing Our Work
We have had multiple opportunities to share our work with teachers at our school, in our district, and across the state.
Summer 2011
- We invited science teachers from across the district to participate in a workshop we put on with Dr. Passmore on Model-Based Reasoning. Teachers from multiple schools attended the 4-day workshop, completely funded by this grant.
Fall 2011
- Team members presented early versions and results of a Model-Based Reasoning unit at the California Science Teachers Association Annual Conference. Our presentation was entitled "Using Socratic Labs to Teach Periodic Trends." Much of the presentation was delivered over document camera, but the powerpoint below illustrates our introduction.
Spring 2012
- Team members presented professional development on reading at a professional development for the entire district, based on our work with Reading Apprenticeship.
Summer 2012
- Team members created and delivered two days of professional development on reading to our entire school-site, based on our work with Reading Apprenticeship.
Fall 2012
- We invited the math department to our monthly professional development at the Center for Math and Science Teaching (CMAST). It was exciting to foster cross-departmental growth in instruction.
- Team members continued to create a deliver professional development on reading to school staff on a monthly basis.
Spring 2013
- The math department continued to attend monthly CMAST sessions with us.
- Team members continued to create and deliver professional development on reading to school staff on a monthly basis.
- We presented our work in a break-out session at the 4th annual TIIP Conference. Our presentation was entitled, "Reading and Academic Discourse in the Non-ELA Classroom."
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- In support of this presentation, we were also able to share transcripts of academic discourse from the 9th grade physics class and 11th grade chemistry class.
Ongoing
- Two team members (Jason Batten and Janee Gerard) are professional development leaders for the entire district and are planning to incorporate our experience with reading and academic discourse into district-wide professional development in preparation for the Common Core.
- One team member (Andrew Osterhaus) was recently named a curriculum specialist for the district and will be supporting new teachers at multiple school-sites. He brings his knowledge from this grant to each teacher he works with.
- Our team continues to provide monthly professional development to our school-site on reading.
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