1. Welcome to… OS Science Council October 29, 2015

2. Today’s Agenda New Science Standards! (we’re pretty sure this time) Why it doesn’ help to fret about your M-Step results Why it doesn’ help to fret about your M-Step results Strategizing for the MiSciStnds with OSST What’s New and Cool? What’s New and Cool? – NGSx – 5 Tools – Curriculum Under Development

3. New Science Standards! Michigan Science StandardsDraft Guidance Support…

4. Let’s Look Under the Hood – by carefully reading the NRC Framework Michigan Science StandardsDraft Guidance Support…

5. GLCE NGSS P.EN.03.21 Demonstrate that light travels in a straight path and that shadows are made by placing an object in a path of light. P.EN.03.22 Observe what happens to light when it travels from air to water. 1-PS4-3. Plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light. MS-PS4.2. Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials. How will explain the difference between our current content expectations and the performance expectations of the NGSS?

6. Speculative Timeline from MDE www.michigan.gov/science

8. M-STEP The Ghost of MEAP! A New Bar with a new (old) bar setting method.

9. Oakland Science Strategy Team

10. What’s New and Cool NGSx 5 Tools M-Star Talk Science (again) Other…

11. Welcome to… OS Science Council October 29, 2015

12. Oakland County Science Council December 10, 2016 Why El Nino is a Bummer… new snowboard languishes in the corner!

13. AGENDA Overview & Announcements Communicating about the NGSS Assessment and the NGSS NGSx Instructional Implications

14. Communicating About the NGSS 1.Please review the message on our website and that from our recent list serve statement. 2.What clarification is needed? 3.What communication challenges exist in your world?

15. Assessing the NGSS A jarring implication if there is to be a 2018-19 state assessment. (doesn’t seem likely, right?)_ How is your district responding to the MDE FAQ on the transition timeline?

16. Best’s Best Bet We aren’t looking at full M-Step on the new standards in 18-19. We are probably looking at next year (16-17) having items from the existing pool of items being cross-walked through the new standards for content alignment, with non-aligned items being thrown out. Maybe, 17-18 starts with field testing of some new items that focus on practices and cross-cutting concepts, but that is likely two years of such testing before we end up with items in the full assessment, putting us, optimistically, at 19-20 for the first full implementation. And, we know that policy can impact this rather significantly with legislation, funding, etc. considerations, as we saw with M-Step, so this is probably the earliest timeline we are looking at… We are starting discussions with our assessment office about some of the details of this and will probably have a much more solid roadmap of this in some detail in the next couple months.

17. Assessing the NGSS A Promising Development!: The Science Assessment Item Collaborative http://www.csai-online.org/spotlight/science-assessment-item-collaborative Framework, Item Specifications, Prototypes Aspires to measure 3D Learning using Item Clusters Could this be a model for district common assessments?

19. Assessing the NGSS Oakland Science Assessment Consortium!: New performance assessments under development They will be posted on OS Science Webpage

20. NGSx on the Way! Immersion PD-model Instructional model promoted: Phenomena driven, model based argumentation Models are used to predict and explain phenomena, example: biggest sucker – Unit 1, Step 11 Focus on supporting productive academic talk, example: talk science primer 5 trained Oakland Facilitators OS will provide two 5-day summer workshops with 2016 follow up event.

21. Science Teaching and Learning Read the Classroom Scenario A Individually highlight your assigned lesson(s) – What is the teacher doing? (highlight in yellow) – What are students doing? (highlight in pink) – What is the science in this lesson? (underline) As a group, chart what you highlighted for your assigned lesson(s) Gallery Walk – How would you describe this classroom? Individual Reflection – How would you describe this classroom? Teacher AStudentsScience Lesson ______

22. Science Teaching and Learning Read the Classroom Scenario B Individually highlight your assigned lesson(s) – What is the teacher doing? (highlight in yellow) – What are students doing? (highlight in pink) – What is the science in this lesson? (underline) As a group, chart what you highlighted for your assigned lesson(s) Gallery Walk – How would you describe this classroom? Individual Reflection – How would you describe this classroom? Teacher BStudentsScience Lesson ______