This ConnectEd learning webinar features three beginning elementary teachers and how they are working to broaden the knowledge bases and languages of science in their classrooms. Check out their short classroom videos and reflections on striving toward justice-centered teaching.
The examples in the webinar highlight different ways that teachers are working at the intersections of race, language, and science as they integrate students’ cultures and experiences into science lessons.
Consider what “grappling with racism” means as a science teaching practice: Sheth, M. J. (2019). Grappling with racism as foundational practice of science teaching. Science Education, 103(1), 37-60.
Using Science Theater as a format for student explanations.
This case study describes how a school district intentionally designed PL to support teachers in integrating translanguaging and multimodal representations when eliciting students’ ideas.
In this resource, we feature three stories about instructional coaching to show a variety of ways educators support the professional learning for ambitious and equitable teaching and learning.
This site is primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Award #1907471 and #1315995