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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: A bold experiment
By Arthur Eisenkraft
Categories: Collaboration, Learning communitiesFebruary 2020
Vol 41, No. 1
Picture this: A district science coordinator wants to move forward with a new initiative that supports district priorities and will result in improved student science learning. She brings together a dozen classroom teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools across the district. They discuss the initiative and how they might best roll it out across grade levels throughout the district to achieve vertical alignment. They reflect on how the program will be different across grade levels and how it will help the district overall meet new science standards. They agree on what professional learning teachers in the district will require to come aboard. They then move forward with a plan. This scenario occurs in districts throughout the United States, thanks to the Wipro Science Education
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National Research Council. (2012). A framework for K-12 science education: Practices, crosscutting concepts, and core ideas. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
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