Trees, Seasons & Shining a light on Farming Communities: Kinder Bilingüe
This video features Maestra Consuelo teaching dual language, Spanish & English, to Kindergartners in a rural farming community in Washington State. She connects science to the stories of the...
View ArticleMeaningful Connections to People, Place, Community, Nature, and Power: Studio...
This tool is an example of studio professional learning using about how teachers shifted engineering curriculum to include meaningful connections to people, place, community, nature, and power.
View Article¿Qué soluciones podemos crear para enfrentar la escasez de agua en un mundo...
This tool features a unit we designed on water scarcity and a studio professional learning model in a 5th grade dual-language classroom.
View ArticleLearning from a Local Longitudinal Network
This page compiles the contributions to the 2026 NARST symposium, drawing on the expertise of local teachers in Seattle who participated in the PASTEL research project.
View ArticleWorking Toward Justice-Centered, Multilingual Science and Literacy Pedagogies
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...
View ArticlePromoting Asset-based Science Teaching for Emergent Language Learners
New tools, resources and videos from the PASTEL (Promoting Asset-based Science Teaching for Emergent Language Learners) team, centering justice, joy, science & literacy, race & language, and...
View ArticleUniversity of Washington: Designing for Ambitious Science Teacher Leadership...
Long term partnerships with local school districts afford opportunities for embedded teacher learning. Watch this NSTA TV video to learn more!
View ArticleBuilding Reciprocity through Collaborative Storytelling
How teachers can engage their students in collaborative storytelling as a way to enact reciprocal teaching.
View ArticleChoosing Authentic, Local Puzzling Phenomena
This tool shows how a teacher planned for an authentic, local puzzling phenomenon that attended to nature-culture relations.
View ArticleDesigning for Authentic Home-School Dialogues
Teacher Ruby shares her experience developing a unit that draws on the wealth of knowledge and cultural resources her students bring from their homes
View ArticleFrom Book Study to Classroom Mastery
Book club on centering student identities and productive science discussions, resulting in increased teacher buy-in and more effective classroom practices.
View ArticleProfessional Learning: Engaging Teachers in a Shared Experience
By Ann Schumacher & Josh Simondet, Puyallup School District, Science Instructional Coaches Educators participated in a five-part professional learning series exploring equitable, highly effective,...
View ArticleRegional Level Ambitious Science Teaching Support through Coaching Cycles
Developed by Nathan Spencer, Science Consultant at Wayne RESA As a Science Education Consultant in the largest region of Michigan, I wanted to find a way to encourage teachers to add Ambitious Science...
View ArticleInstructional Coaching Cycles
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.
View ArticleBuilding Teacher Leader Capacity
A case study for establishing distributed leadership capacity among teachers across a district.
View ArticleA teacher’s journey to science
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...
View ArticleInterpreting and Planning for Multilingual Sensemaking
This case study describes how a school district intentionally designed PL to support teachers in integrating translanguaging and multimodal representations when eliciting students' ideas.
View ArticleInstructional Coaching Cycles
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.
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