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A tool to support teachers in learning about Ambitious Science Teaching (AST) tools for action research purposes.
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A case study for establishing distributed leadership capacity among teachers across a district. -
In this resource, we feature three stories about instructional coaching to show a variety of ways educators support the professional… -
Print-and-stick labels to easily locate and view video examples from the AST website while you read the AST Book -
Unpacking topics like “earthquakes,” “solubility,” or “cellular respiration” begins with identifying all the big ideas mentioned in the Next Generation… -
On this webpage, you find what we call AST Unit Starter Bundles. As the name suggests, these materials should give… -
Modeling support: Scaffolding versus White Space What’s a good problem to have? That your students know more than they can…
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Science Journal Rubric
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Ambitious Teaching—An overview
In this video we illustrate what Ambitious Teaching looks like in classrooms ranging from high school to kindergarten. The practices were developed through collaborations between teachers and researchers, and they are continually evolving as we learn more about how they work with young learners. There are several themes that you’ll see in all examples, such as a focus on puzzling and complex phenomena, opportunities to make sense through talk, making thinking visible, attending to who is participating, using various forms of scaffolding and tools, and much more.
This site is primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Award #1907471 and #1315995
This site is primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Award #1907471 and #1315995
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