Instructional Materials for the Next Generation Science Standards:
Design, Selection, and Implementation
Room 100, Keck Building
500 Fifth St. NW
Washington, DC 20001
| 8:30 am | Registration, Breakfast, and Coffee |
| 9:00 am | Welcome and Introductions |
| Michael Lach, Chair, UChicago STEM Education, University of Chicago | |
| Heidi Schweingruber, Director, Board on Science Education, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | |
| 9:15 am | The Importance of Science Education |
| Rush Holt, CEO, AAAS |
| 9:45 am | Existing Instruments to Guide Development and Selection of Instructional Materials: Overviews of EQuIP, PEEC, and Next Generation AIM |
| Moderator: Susan Gomez-Zwiep, Professor, California State University, Long Beach | |
| Overview of EQuIP and PEEC | |
| Matthew Krehbiel, Associate Director, Science, Achieve, Inc. | |
| Overview of Next Generation AIM | |
| Kathy DiRanna, K-12 Alliance Director, WestEd | |
| Commentary | |
| Jo Ellen Roseman, Director of Project 2061, AAAS | |
| 10:30 am | Questions from the audience |
| 10:45 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Beyond Content Alignment: What Additional Criteria Should Be Considered When Developing and Selecting Instructional Materials? |
| Moderator: Daniel Edelson, Executive Director, BSCS | |
| Panelists: | |
| Elizabeth Davis, Professor, University of Michigan | |
| Erin Furtak, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder (virtually) | |
| Okhee Lee, Professor, NYU Steinhardt | |
| Brian Reiser, Professor, Northwestern University | |
| Note: Short papers are available online as background to each panelist’s presentation. | |
| 12:00 pm | Questions from the audience |
| 12:15 pm | Lunch |
| 1:15 pm | Lessons from Mathematics about Developing, Selecting, and Implementing Instructional Materials |
| Moderator: Diane Briars, Past President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics | |
| Kathryn Chval, Dean, College of Education, University of Missouri | |
| William McCallum, Professor, University of Arizona | |
| Valerie Mills, Mathematics Education Consultant, Oakland Schools | |
| 1:45 pm | Questions from the audience |
| 2:00 pm | What Is the Current State of Science Curriculum and Instruction in the USA? |
| Patrick Sean Smith, President, Horizon Research, Inc. | |
| 2:25 pm | Questions from the audience |
| 2:40 pm | Break |
| 2:55 pm | What Are Districts and States Doing? What Do They Need? |
| Moderator: Tiffany Neill, Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Oklahoma State Department of Education | |
| Panelists: | |
| Jill Cowart, Math and Science Instructional Team Lead, Louisiana Department of Education | |
| Jennifer Munger, Principal, Hartford Elementary School, West Central School District, South Dakota | |
| James Ryan, STEM Executive Director, San Francisco Unified School District | |
| Sam Shaw, Team Leader Division of Learning and Instruction, South Dakota Department of Education |
| 3:30 pm | Questions from the audience |
| 3:45 pm | Teachers’ Needs |
| Moderator: Tiffany Neill, Oklahoma State Department of Education | |
| Panelists: | |
| Monica Aguirre, Teacher, Lake Elementary, Oceanside, California | |
| Rabiah Harris, Science Teacher, Kelly Miller Middle School, District of Columbia | |
| Margo Murphy, Science Teacher, Camden Hills Regional High School, Rockport, Maine and Chair, National Academies’ Teacher Advisory Council | |
| 4:05 pm | Questions from the audience |
| 4:15 pm | How Do We Get the Instructional Materials We Need: Models for Development |
| Moderator: Brian Reiser, Northwestern University | |
| Panelists: | |
| Charles (Andy) Anderson, Professor, Michigan State University | |
| Philip Bell, Professor, University of Washington | |
| Eric Berson, Director of Teacher Happiness, Mystery Science | |
| Joseph Levine, Author, Pearson Education and Course Director, | |
| Organization for Tropical Studies | |
| 5:15 pm | Day 1 Summary and Looking Ahead to Day 2 |
| 5:30 pm | Adjourn |
| 8:30 am | Breakfast and coffee available |
| 9:00 am | Welcome to Day 2 |
| 9:10 am | Adoption, Usage, and the Marketplace |
| V. Darleen Opfer, Director, RAND Education, RAND Corporation | |
| Kathy Mickey, Senior Analyst/Managing Editor of the Education Group, Simba Information | |
| 9:50 am | Questions from the audience |
| 10:00 am | How Do We Get the Instructional Materials We Need: Business Models |
| Moderator: Michael Lach, University of Chicago | |
| Panelists: | |
| Bert Bower, CEO, Teachers’ Curriculum Institute | |
| Jay Diskey, Executive Director of the PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers | |
| Jeff Livingston, President and CEO, EdSolutions | |
| 10:30 am | Questions from the audience |
| 10:40 am | Recommendations for the Field: How Do We Build Smarter Supply, Demand, and Implementation of Instructional Materials for the NGSS? |
| Small-group discussion | |
| 11:45 am | Share recommendations with the large group |
| 12:15 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Instructional Materials and Teachers’ Professional Learning |
| Moderator: Cynthia Passmore, Professor, University of California, Davis | |
| Panelists: | |
| Jennifer Horton, Science Teacher, Lincoln High School, Lincoln, California | |
| Barbara Nagle, Director, Science Education for Public | |
| Understanding Program, Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley | |
| Leon Walls, Associate Professor, University of Vermont | |
| 1:30 pm | Questions from the audience |
| 1:45 pm | Instructional Materials and Building School and District Capacity |
| Moderator: Elizabeth Davis, University of Michigan | |
| Panelists: | |
| Jill Cowart, Louisiana Department of Education | |
| Katherine McNeill, Associate Professor, Boston College | |
| William Penuel, Professor, University of Colorado Boulder | |
| Lesa Rohrer, Secondary Science Curriculum Coordinator, Oklahoma City Public Schools | |
| Douglas Watkins, Science Curriculum Specialist, Denver Public Schools | |
| 2:30 pm | Questions from the audience |
| 2:45 pm | Break |
| 3:00 pm | Instructional Materials and Equity |
| Moderator: Leon Walls, University of Vermont | |
| Panelists: | |
| Lizette Burks, Science Program Consultant, Kansas State Department of Education | |
| Eileen Parsons, Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| Alberto Rodriguez, Chair of Elementary Education and Professor, Purdue University | |
| 3:45 pm | Questions from the audience |
| 4:00 pm | Reflections from the audience |
| 4:30 pm | Reflections from the sponsors |
| James Short, Program Director for Teaching and Human Capital Management, Carnegie Corporation of New York | |
| Judy Wurtzel, Director, Education, Schusterman Family Foundation | |
| 4:50 pm | Reflections from the Committee Chair |
| Michael Lach, University of Chicago | |
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn |
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