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NGSS Assessment: Science assessment grounded in equity
You are likely familiar with “assessment for” learning rather than “assessment of” learning. It’s an important shift that many of us have been working hard to realize. But what about assessment as a caring practice? This episode of a podcast about the NGSS (yes – there’s a podcast about the NGSS : ) called “Unpack…
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NGSS Foundations: How to engage with the Performance Expectations: This may just change the way you understand, plan for and implement the NGSS
So many aspects of the three dimensional standards and how the authors intended educators to engage with them fell into place for me when I read this article many years ago – and it has informed my work ever since. The article, “Q and A on Unpacking Three-Dimensional Standards” written by Jeremy Peacock and Ted…
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Data Literacy K – 12: Teacher friendly data resource and protocol (good / easy for K-5 and some Data Sci stuff for 6+)
If you are familiar with the work of Jo Boaler and youcubed, it’s probably in the context of math education. You may have heard of number sense – but what about data sense? This team has also done wonderful work around data literacy. In any NGSS school system, working towards data literacy as early as…
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