1. There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-Christopher Morley

5. CHOICE
TRUST
PARTNERSHIP

6. “People may not hear your words, but they feel your attitude”
John Maxwell

8. The “WHY” Opportunities for ALL students to develop the skills they need for their “Next Step”
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9. CHOICE
EMPOWERMENT
TRUST
PARTNERSHIP

13. “The overarching goal of our framework for K-12 science education is to ensure by the end of 12th grade, all students have some appreciation of the beauty and wonder of science; possess sufficient knowledge of science and engineering to engage in public discussions on related issues to their daily lives;

14. (A Framework for K12 Science Education, NRC 2012)
are able to continue to learn about science outside of school; and have the skills to enter careers of their choice, including (but not limited to) careers in science, engineering and technology.”
(A Framework for K12 Science Education, NRC 2012)

15. “The (Carnegie/IAS) Commission found that far too few students in the United States received high-quality instruction in mathematics and science, and subsequently, the nation was falling behind many countries in these areas.”
(The Opportunity Equation, Carnegie Corporation of New York 2009)

17. “All students should have the opportunity to experience a learning atmosphere built for their success and exposure to the world of science in a methodology that engages, inspires and empowers them as visioned in The Framework”

18. Which students does NGSS target?

19. Equity and the NGSS
The research clearly shows that all students have the ability to learn science, however, the level of development of scientific literacy depends on their classroom experiences.

21. Opportunities for all students to….
Stretch vocabulary
Distill and clarify thinking for communication
Benefit from the modeling and public thinking of peers to move forward the learning of all students

22. Questions as Breadcrumbs

23. Crosscutting Concepts—”They are for the students to help them organize and make sense of the science.”
Brett Moulding

24. Brittney had used those crosscutting concepts in the Shelton classroom as thinking tools.
She had internalized them so she could use them in her future.
This is empowerment– this is strength, confidence, and independence.

27. “What the research tells us is that students learn science best when they are deeply engaged in the practices of science and engineering, and apply these practices over multiple years to develop a set of disciplinary core ideas and connections between those ideas across science disciplines (crosscutting concepts).” --Helen Quinn  

28. Dr. Stephen Pruitt described this capacity-building journey as a path towards expertise: gaining knowledge but also pairing that knowledge with the integration of how to use it.

29. The world needs dreamers and the worlds needs doers
The world needs dreamers and the worlds needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
Sarah Ban Breathnach