1. Strengthening Science Education in California: Research Findings

2. About the Initiative Background Methods This report

3. Key Report Finding Children rarely encounter high-quality science learning opportunities in California elementary schools because conditions that would support them are rarely in place.

4. Principal Assessment of quality of science instruction How likely is it that a student in your school is receiving high- quality science instruction?

5. Time for Science Learning and Teaching Minutes of science instruction per week

6. Finding Time is a Challenge Percent of Elementary School Teachers and Principals Reporting Limited time for Science Education as a Challenge

7. Teachers Face Many Challenges

8. Strengthening Science Education in California Initiative

9. Finding time for science through integration

10. Teacher Fell Less Prepared to Teach Science than other subjects

11. Teachers who feel prepared to…

12. Opportunities for PD are scarce

13. Percentage of Teachers who Receive “Too Little” or “No Support at all” by School-Level Poverty Quartiles

14. Percentage of Teachers Reporting Limited Funds and Lack of Facilities as a “Major” or “Moderate” Challenge

15. Principals believe science learning should begin early

16. Districts and schools lack infrastructure focused on improving science learning opportunities in elementary schools

17. Percent of schools/districts receiving funds from outside sources

18. Percent of schools/districts receiving non- monetary support from outside sources

19. Press Coverage Alameda Times Star Aroundthecapitol Bakersfield Californian Big Education Ape California Education News California Federation of Teachers California Progress Report Central Coast Page Chico News & Review Contra Costa Times Daily Californian Daily Review Online Educated Guess Education News EScience News Fairfield Republic Huffington Post Inside Bay Area news website KABC News. KCBS – San Francisco – interview w Patrick shields KGO – San Francisco – interview w Rena Dorph KION – Santa Barbara KPBS (Public -NPR- San Diego) KPCC (Public –NPR Pasadena) KQED – San Francisco – Interview with Rena Dorph KSFO – San Francisco- Interview with Rena Dorph Long Beach Press Telegram Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times (website) Marin Independent Journal Mercury.com MSNBC, and Oakland Tribune Orange County Register (front page) Oroville Mercury Register Pasadena Star Phsysorg. Popular Science Riverside Press Enterprise: Editorial Rough and Tumble, Salinas Californian San Francisco Chronicle San Gabriel Valley News – Front Page San Jose Mercury News – (Front Page) Santa Cruz Sentinel Santa Cruz Sentinel (front page- Top story) School Innovations Advocacy ScienceNews Daily state-politics.com Time Magazine: Education: Get Schooled Torrance Daily Breeze Tri Valley Herald UPI.COM Vacaville Reporter Vallejo Times Herald Whittier Tribune Plus hundreds of websites and blogs!

20. Full report available on-line: http://www.cftl.org/documents/201 1/StrengtheningScience_full.pdf