In this interview, Science Coach Suzanne Sullivan describes how and why she launched an AST book club through social media. Listen to her discuss the experience of collaboratively digging into practices like modeling and constructing explanations with others, and how the club was structured.
Importantly, Coach Sullivan notes how the group needed to pause in the midst of reading and spend several weeks productively grappling with their own understandings and meanings of equity, ensuring that they reached beyond equity as access.
Here is a link to the AST book being discussed! Windschitl, M., Thompson, J., & Braaten, M. (2018). Ambitious Science Teaching. Harvard Education Press.
In this video, second-graders take on the...
Listen to Debbie Diaz describe her journey toward science, from being a student shut out from science, to a teacher who believed in her students, and now to becoming a science curriculum specialist for Seattle Public Schools.
Phenomenon- and modeling-based unit in a third-grade classroom.
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