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Thanks for sharing that Alice ❤️

Alice is brilliant and beautiful

I'm officially nudging my group to share... ;)

I got you Gwendolynn. My brain is too slow this morning:) I will share out our thoughts later:)

Go Cocks!

#GoCocks!

Spurs Up!!

Just joining...please tell me Dr. Melton is thinking of running for office!

Go Tigers

I am honored! Thank you.

Thank you, Alice!

❤️ Alice

Student learning focused

Shift to focus on learning

Consistent support across disciplines

lots of support for teachers and students

There is a strong focus on assessment practices and resources for teachers

Variety of assessments, not just summative

CCR Common Goals

Embedding assessment with instructional PD

Taking time to get it right

Trust in the professionalism of teachers

Making sure that education is equitable and expectations are clear

A strong focus on learning and achievement.

core instruction supported by intervention and resources.

ALL students

Purposeful steps

Reporting effective learning instead of stats on attendance

Go slow to go fast

An intentional focus on learning will result in student achievement

Focus on how actions of ALL impact student learning

unification and clarification

PD effectiveness will be measured by student and teacher growth not just participants!

Achievement is not the end-all, be-all

The SCDOE is working to streamline the support for teachers and students to include combining the offices of assessment and standards so that everything is in alignment. No longer will PD be measured by how many people attended or how many districts attended but rather by the impact on student learning.

My mantra

Intentional focus on student growth by putting learning first

Chunk and chew

Yes!!

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THANK YOU!!!

AMEN!

yes!

Thank you.

One stop shop!

THANK YOU!!!

Simple and intentionally data driven

Focus on what is practical and usable in the classroom. Theoretical is nice but most teachers need something they can use immediately.

This group is happy to help! We have a lot of experience, but we are also lifelong learners

I agree

This is so wonderful! Thank you!

YES!

Absolutely! Our membership is awesome!

Absolutely! Glad to help!

Thank you!!

Excellent! This is a major struggle!

UBDs

We all just took a deep breath

Please repeat dates..

Can you say that again?

Sorry!

Please Repeat!

Thank you

Will there be field test items in 2022-

BIG differences

Hurray!!!

HUZZAH!!!!

YEAH!!!!!

Perfect !

Thank you

Now I know you all want to share in the chat on that note!!! :)

Thank YOU!!!!

Much needed!

What about Biology?

wahoo!!!

YES!!

That is wonderful.

helps with all the shifts

6-8 will not be effective without vertical support from k-5

Thank you.

Is it possible to include Biology?

WE WILL NEED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR biology AS WELL

Great! Can we get the standard revisions and Instructional materials adoption timelines to coordinate for the future?

Must include curricular resources that are hands-on BY DESIGN, not hands-on activities tagged onto to traditional textbooks.

Agreed, Dr. Emmer!

Agreed, Dr. Emmer

Sorry for all caps.

Is the LOR accessible to ALL teachers in SC? We work a lot with homeschool families who are always looking for resources. Wondering if these amazing resources will be opened to them…

Renee - yes. Instructional HJub

*hub

Currently, is there much chance that the tested grade-levels (4th and 6th) would change?

Great! I have a group of homeschoolers here today and will share this great news with them

They are rolling out training opportunities by region - I can share with you.

LOR can provide some access to great instructional resources but hands-on instructional materials are essential to teaching science

Great question

What about existing Science Kit Funds? How should these be used?

Yes, any chance SC PASS will move to 5th and 8th grades?

Doubt any change in grade levels at this point… just my thinking

Please reconsider year 8 vs 6 or 7 vs 6

Grade level testing is determined by state law.

Recommendation is not to implement new standards until school year 2023?

Please consider a well-developed, detailed, functional grade-level specific science instructional support document

Consider: Support Document of parameters of new standards

Yes, Ed!! Support documents are vital

Consider instructional gaps with new standards and tested grade levels. If three grade levels are held to assessments aligned to 2014 standards and other grade levels move forward with 2021 standards, students will miss important content and repeat content

If Spring 2024 is first testing year - then 2014 standards are tested in the meantime? Is this the understanding

Will you consider having a timeline in place in future standards changes so we can prepare accurately without back tracking?

Consider a well thought out support document of new standards with examples

I would like to see a science pacing guide for the tested grades.

Will you please consider giving a state pacing guide because of how transient we are?

I would love to be able to teach the 2021 standards during the year of 2023 and 2024 before we test in 2024 since the new standards are changing grade bands

Please consider releasing needed vocabulary for assessments to the districts

Consider within the framework to design PD a rollout to focus on the various audiences to include school level leadership that will need to have a strong understanding of what successful science looks like as they support instruction within the buildings. Thank you for all of the information.

Yes teachers are asking about a support document already for new standards

Consider a clear timeline of standards roll out with how adoption of how resources will align

Will you consider changing the structure of testing so a Cross Walk document is not put into place?

Please consider PD that is practical and actionable vs. theoretical

Will you please consider having formative assessments samples in the curriculum supports?

Consider pacing guides for standards and a roll out timeline for future standards changes.

Agree with Katie Dell

Please consider communicating to districts the expectations that science be taught with consistency and fidelity at the elementary level. Many elementary schools tend to treat science and social studies as that thing you get to AFTER you do ELA and math if you have time.

Agreed, Dr. Emmer!!!

I agree with Dr. Emmer, communication regarding expectations at the state level for Science to be consistently taught. The minutes of required instruction for science might encourage this.

Agreed- districts need guidance and direction as well as the flexibility on how to act

We need this! Thank you!!

Yes!

agree

Thank you Dr. Melton! As a former Science Ed Associate with the SCDOE, I am thrilled to hear your vision for the Office of Standards and Assessment. Looking forward to the wonderful support your office will provide the students and teachers of SC under your leadership. Please let Clemson’s Science Outreach Center know if we can help in any way.

Would you consider sending us updates as they become available so we can hear from SCDE first before learning new information from vendors?

YES, Katie!!!!

It would allow this meeting to be PD instead of Faculty Meeting.

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But we still need a plan

How to “do 3D teaching”

What does it look like?

Integrate content with hands-on learning

How to teach content they have never taught before

Unpacking the standards

Helping teacher to be ready for all of the instructional shifts

We know the parts - but what does it look like in lesson

Understanding the verbs to ensure the students master it .

What will assessment look like>

How to ensure students are engaged in asking the questions.

Better authentic assessment

What do I do with CCCs?

Teachers are concerned about the shifts in content, how to integrate 3-D, assessments, general unknown of the shift.

How to teach the most in a short time during the day

Supporting our pre-service teachers to be prepared for the new standards and how the shift will happen in schools

What instructional materials should be used?

When should the new standards be taught?

Just visually...there are a lot of moving parts in the new standards.

www.discoveryeducation.com

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Is everything completed digitally or are their options for printing resources?

Are the kits part of what the state will fund?

Information that has been shared with us is yes.

But I am sure it depends on funding.

https://join.discoveryeducation.com/VSUY1

Is this live quiz a part of the current k-5 product?

It is part of the Discovery Education platform that you have access.

Anna I will reach out to you privately. I am new to position in Spartanburg 7

astrassner@discoveryed.com

Link to how folks can participate?

https://discoveryed.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_raRJEcTTTM2pyJPhGD-bWA

https://discoveryed.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dDk-vcXfSfiqrZU5DnWn5A

If a lesson is only one dimensional, where the learning goal is only to master facts about a topic, how does it look and feel compared to a three dimensional lesson?

Modify and adjust!

No student questions vs all student questions

1D - Lecture-style, sit and get

1-dimensional = teacher talk

1 Dimensional is teacher centered, students are much less engaged 3-Dimensional is student centered and increases engagement

Low student engagement.

Start with vocab vs develop vocabulary through experience

3D - Students are leading their learning

3D helps students to make cross curricular connections

Student led learning in 3D

As a student I would be memorizing not making sense of science. I would not feel ownership.

Little context for new content

Teacher voice with little student voice

Learn before experiment vs starting with inquiry

3 dimensional is student-centered and real-world!

Crosscutting concepts need to be explicitly taught to students.Crosscutting concepts are habits of mind, or ways of thinking, commonly used by both scientists and engineers.Using the crosscutting concepts is not as important as understanding the DCIs or being able to do the SEPs.Without understanding and being able to use the crosscutting concepts you can’t deeply understand the natural world.Crosscutting concepts are the next level of science learning, the frosting so to speak, designed for students who are proficient with the DCIs and the SEPs.

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The CCCs should be intentionally brought out in the learning but always in the context of the science content.

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Equitable science instruction provides entry points to any level student. CCCs supper this

bwhitwo@clemson.edu

Looking forward to our next time with you Brooke! We are excited to have you here is SC!

Thank you, Brooke! Welcome!

Thank you

Hello, everyone! I shared in the breakout rooms at the beginning that I was checking out the weather at weather.com the other day and the front-page story was about all of the recent earthquakes in SC. I sent the link to my 8th grade teachers and my breakout room partners asked that I share the link with them. Here is the link in case you would like to share it with others. https://weather.com/science/environment/video/whats-causing-strange-series-of-quakes-in-south-carolina

Awesome!!

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Atiya Merchant -Carolina Biological

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concrete

It rained

It's overcast

1/2 tree is wet

It appears that there are vertical rain lines on the trees and pole

One side of the tree is wet

The pole and the trees are wet on the opposite side

More pavement in one picture

Different ground cover. Gray skies.

Spring? the azaleas are blooming

Ahh - a cause and an effect. That is helpful

Maybe a storm came through quickly

sideways rain

Sun evaporated water from one side

This is similar to Wit and Wisdom! Notice and wonder

This is a great way to build vocabulary

Wind & Rain

See - It is raining sideways! lolol

That wind affects rain

We linked it all to the agenda

This makes so much sense!

This was fantastic! Thank you!

DCI- weather

DCI- Weather

Elements of weather

SEP- Developing models

Develop model

SEPs develop and use models, construct an explanation

patterns

cause and effect

weather

patterns

CCC patterns

Make observations is sep

DCI- weather, CCC- patterns, SEP- observations

Ccc patterns and change over time

Like the map!

Jacket, umbrella?

Ada needs her raincoat!

Maybe some rain boots

or dry socks

Had to leave due to fire alarm.

Are these considered new STC kits

This is a new curriculum. STC elementary aligned with the National Science Education Standards. Smithsonian Science for the Classroom aligns with NGSS.