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May 30, 2019

If you’ve asked yourself, what does it actually look like for students to demonstrate progress towards the 3D standards? Or what are the most important features of high-quality science tasks? Well, Achieve has answers! These were the questions that drove the Achieve’s Task Annotation Project in Science (TAPS) and...


May 23, 2019

If you are a history buff and a geology enthusiast -- this is the episode for you! Jazmin Scarlett shares with us her research as a historical and social volcanologist. She describes her work that centers around the 1812, 1902, and 1979 volcanic eruptions of Caribbean’s St. Vincent La Soufrière.  

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May 16, 2019

Todd Campbell shares with us successful strategies and resources to use when implementing model based inquiry in your NGSS classroom. He describes ways to guide students through the sense making process. Check out the show notes for links to unit templates with this framework as well as other useful resources mentioned...


May 9, 2019

There’s a whole lot of helpful NGSS discussion in this episode today with a member of the NGSS writing team, Kenneth Huff. Kenneth clears up two common myths about NGSS and shares with us a useful lesson planning strategy called Gather, Reason, and Communicate.

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May 2, 2019

Our guest today, Jason Crean, MS Bio, EdD shares with us the powerful impacts NGSS storylines have on student learning. He share what works in a NGSS high school classroom shares many resources for teachers such as where to get high quality NGSS aligned units.

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