July Schedule
All Hall Learning Committee Remaining July EventsBlue Skies Futures in Learning Design
Jacquey Barber, Director, LHS Curriculum Center
Tuesday, July 20, 12 – 1 p.m., Room 150
In December 2009 and May 2010, a small group of progressive thinkers was convened to consider the future of education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the technology-rich world in which we all live. The starting point for discussions was that technology can fundamentally change the conditions for doing, teaching, and learning STEM content and that these changes require bold new thinking about instructional designs. These meetings were convened by Barbara Reys of The Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum, funded by the National Science Foundation, and attended by 6-12 NSF Program Officers. Though not an official NSF advisory group, NSF Program Officers helped shape the design of the meetings and reports from the Blue Skies meetings are being provided to NSF as advisory to the learning design research and development needs of the future. Come hear a summary of the Blue Skies findings, presented by Jacquey Barber, Director of the LHS Curriculum Center.
July 26
Common Core Standards Movement and the Next Generation of Science Education Standards
Monday, July 26, 12 p.m., Room 150
Jacquey Barber, Director, Curriculum Development Center
Come hear about the movement to make a set of Common Core Standards that reflect what we now know about effective teaching, curriculum planning, and how students learn. The first wave of the Common Core Standards movement has been to produce draft standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics. The second public draft of these standards was released on June 2nd; they will be made final by December. You can check out the draft ELA and Mathematics draft standards here: http://www.corestandards.org/
The effort to create science standards is now underway, the first step of which has been for a committee of the National Resource Council's Board on Science Education to create a conceptual framework which will serve to guide the development of standards. The first public draft of this framework was released on July 12th. We are now in the first public comment period—until August 2nd. The framework will be made final by December. You can see a copy of the draft framework here: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/Standards_Framework_Public_Draft_Cover_Letter.html
Join a presentation and discussion of the Common Core Standards Movement, with a particular focus on its implications for science, both through the ELA Common Core Standards (which call for reading and writing in science) and the new draft Science Conceptual Framework.