Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards Resources
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Teaching K–8 Science Through Distance Learning: Specific Challenges and Successes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This brief describes teaching NGSS-aligned K–8 science through distance learning and presents challenges and successes as well as research-based recommendations to advance equitable learning outcomes.
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Teaching K–8 Science Through Distance Learning: Overall Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This brief summarizes survey data relating to how the pandemic has affected high-quality, student-centered science education and presents recommendations to promote equitable learning outcomes for all students.
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Curriculum Materials Designed for the Next Generation Science Standards Show Promise
WestEd led an independent randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of the NGSS-designed Amplify Science Middle School (ASMS) curriculum with initial findings supporting the use of ASMS curriculum to improve student learning outcomes in physical science.
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Articulating a Transformative Approach for Designing Tasks that Measure Young Learners’ Developing Proficiencies in Integrated Science and Literacy
In this paper, authors introduce an approach for designing NGSS-aligned assessments that measure young learners’ science progress.
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Key Takeaways for Transforming Science Education
This resource highlights five takeaways from a series of focus groups of educators and experts who developed, adopted, and/or implemented instructional materials aligned with today’s science standards. It also includes a series of "Stories from the Field" that highlight solutions to common challenges in the field.
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What Education Leaders Can Learn About Next Generation Science Standards Implementation: Highlights From the NGSS Early Implementers Initiative
This report on highlights from the Early Implementers Initiative is the final evaluation report of the series and offers key recommendations for policymakers and administrators for implementing the Next Generation Science Standards in their own districts.
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Strengthening the Clinical Orientation of Teacher Preparation Programs
This paper identifies key levers to put high-quality clinical experience—that is, the opportunity to practice the work of teaching in classrooms—at the center of teacher preparation
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Ready Now: Science and Engineering EdTech Guide
This digital EdTech guide contains a variety of K-12+ education technology offerings focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
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Keep Teaching Science! Successful Strategies to Adapt K–12 Science Experiences for Distance Learning
This report from the NextGenScience team highlights strategies and hands-on examples of effective and equitable adaptations for science teaching and learning at a distance.
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Roadblocks and Routes: Professional Development in Math in Common Districts
This report describes some of the more common roadblocks that Math in Common districts faced in their early years of CCSS-M implementation, along with the routes that the districts took around those roadblocks in order to support teacher and student learning.
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What Accelerates a Community of Practice? Inflection Points That Changed the Course of the Math in Common Initiative
This report describes the trajectory of the Math in Common (MiC) Community of Practice (CoP), including both its missteps and its successes, in the hope that designers or participants of other formal or informal CoPs can leverage the MiC experience and make progress more quickly in their own collaborations.
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Understanding Complex Instructional Change: Classroom Observations of Math in Common Districts
This report describes how teachers participating in the Math in Common initiative made significant shifts in their instruction to help students master the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics.
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Educators Collaborating to Improve Mathematics: Three Structures That Mattered in Math in Common Districts
This report describes how districts participating in the Math in Common initiative approached the implementation of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSS-M) differently than other California districts.
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Spotlight on Student Achievement: Analyses of Statewide Assessment Data in Math in Common Districts
This report documents the uneven math gains made by Math in Common (MiC) districts, schools, and students, by analyzing the patterns of those gains, which range from outperforming statewide trends to more moderate growth. While progress in student achievement in the MiC districts has been slow, there are some promising signs to share with the field.
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Developing Principals' Instructional Leadership in Math in Common Districts
This report describes the approaches that Math in Common (MiC) districts took toward helping principals take ownership of math instruction and standards implementation at their sites, and profiles three MiC districts that built their principals' instructional leadership over time.
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