Professional Development

curriculum

Foundations of NGSS

Summer 2025 registration opens soon.

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Teachers enhance their capacity to integrate Next Generation Science Standards-aligned instruction across grade levels.

About the course

This two-day course allows participants to:

  • Gain a thorough understanding of the three-dimensional, phenomena-driven instructional approach to teaching, including the shifts laid out in A Framework for K-12 Science Education.
  • Experience, and reflect on, 3D phenomenon-based instruction that requires sense-making via science practices to meaningfully support their students in this type of learning.
  • Understand and analyze student coherence within their curriculum in order to better teach grade level appropriate science concepts in alignment with NGSS.
  • Have opportunities to build confidence teaching the NGSS alongside a community of science teachers.

This course is designed for science teachers, curriculum specialists or administrators for K-8th grades who have little familiarity with NGSS expectations for science teaching and learning.

Note: Participants will receive books and resources to support their integration of NGSS into their classrooms. This course does not provide a complete NGSS curriculum.

Registration

Summer 2025

Foundations of NGSS

Increase your skills in understanding and enacting the NGSS with our two-day professional development workshop.

Summer Workshop
July 22-23, 2025

Courses take place at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. All session days are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cost: $750* per teacher includes lunch and parking.

Registration opens soon.

* For applicants from Priority Schools** and current SLI School Partners the course is FREE.
** Priority Schools are defined as schools that are Title I eligible or whose total student population is at least 70% Black and/or Hispanic or Latino.

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