Featured Conference Partner Strands

Workshops Offered by Conference Partner Strand Providers

CSTA is proud to partner with several organizations to provide you with quality and exclusive content.

California Academy of Sciences

Located in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, the California Academy of Sciences has a long-standing reputation among educators in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond for providing high-quality learning experiences for teachers, students, and the public. The Academy has provided a wealth of on-line resources for teachers working to implement NGSS. Join us in Sacramento for the opportunity to attend one or more of the fine workshops and short courses from the Academy's team of Teacher Educators.

• Ping-Pong Photosynthesis: A Hands-on Approach to Moving Molecules
• Teachers Supporting Teachers: Professional Learning Communities and the NGSS
• Kinesthetic Astronomy: Making a ‘Whole Classroom’ Model
• Sky in a Bucket: Investigating and Critiquing a Model
• SC8: Next Generation Science notebooks as a Tool for Sense-Making - Ticket Required
• SC11: Where Did the Apple Go? Unearthing the Design of and NGSS Decomposition Unit - Ticket Required

California Environmental Education Interagency Network (CEEIN):

The California Environmental Education Interagency Network (CEEIN) is a state government consortium of environmental educators representing departments, boards, and commissions of the California Department of Water Resources, CalRecycle, California Coastal Commission, California Department of Education and many more. CEEIN fosters broad understanding of the State's environmental and cultural resources while affirming that education is essential to the development of understanding and respect for the environment.

• Using EEI Curriculum Resources to Support Environment-Based 3-D Learning
• Communicating Climate Change in the Classroom
• Exploring Science and Engineering Practices with a Schoolyard Cleanup
• Projects and Practices: Remote Sensing of the California Coast
• Stream Mapping Investigation

California NGSS K-8 Early Implementation Initiative

The California NGSS K-8 Early Implementation Initiative is a grant funded initiative that has allowed eight districts and two charter networks in California to get a jump start on implementing the California NGSS. The initiative is proud to offer exclusively to the California Science Education Conference more than 15 workshops to be presented by teachers and educators who have had the opportunity to explore and begin to implement the new science standards. Don't miss these fantastic offerings from an amazing group of teachers and education leaders.

• A complete K-8, 9 Workshop Series featuring a fully developed Learning Sequence - see below
• From Phenomena to Lesson Sequence
• Collaborating with Community Partners to Design Phenomenon-Based Units
• K-2 3D Science + Engineering Early Implementers: Biomimicry Through Helmet Designs
• Data Analysis, Rain Shadow, and Earth's Systems
• Principles of Effective Advocacy to Build Community Support for NGSS
• How Do I Make Time for Science in My Elementary Classroom?
• K-2 NGSS and Literacy Connections
• Using Online Simulations to Support NGSS in Middle School Classrooms
• SC1: Lesson Learned: The Cutting Edge of NGSS Implementation
  
• SC12: Make Every Minute Count: A Winning Solution to Integrating Life Science 3D NGSS and Literacy CCSS/ELA in K-2 Classrooms
• And More!

2017 CSTA Conference Exclusive Workshop Series

CSTA is pleased to announce that we have partnered with the California NGSS K-8 Early Implementation Initiative and the K-12 Alliance @ WestEd to bring to the conference a series of nine workshops to be presented first to the public at this year’s CSTA conference in Sacramento. This workshop series is based on grade-specific learning sequences that have been designed by educators and professional developers involved in the CA NGSS K-8 Early Implementation Initiative. There will be one workshop each for Kindergarten through 8^th grade. The workshops will be presented by teachers who have not only worked to develop the sequence, but will be implementing them in their classrooms this year. Participants will learn first-hand from classroom teachers what they have learned during the process and based on the first couple of months of school. The workshop series will be presented Friday, October 13 – Saturday, October 14, 2017.

California Science Project

The California Science Project (CSP) is a statewide support network for teacher professional learning and leadership development. CSP collaborates with science faculty, educators, schools and districts to provide effective and high quality science instruction, with a special focus on the needs of English learners, students in poverty, and students with low literacy. The CSP is part of the larger infrastructure of discipline-specific networks known as the California Subject Matter Project administered by the University of California, Office of the President.

• Building Capacity for Local Implementation of the NGSS Through Coherent CSP-District Partnerships
• Professional Learning Strategies for Environmental Literacy with NGSS for K-12
• Supporting School and District Leaders with Implementation of NGSS
• Mystery of the Oasis in the Desert Analyzing the Past, Present, and Future of Marine Mammal Evolution
• All Standards, All Students: NGSS Course Models for High School

Environmental Literacy Steering Committee (ELSC)

Comprised of 30 prominent educational leaders and nonprofit stakeholders, the Steering Committee includes representatives from the California Department of Education and CalRecycle, three directors of the University of California’s Subject Matter Projects, and a member of the State Board of Education. The Steering Committee is now working to implement recommendations from the blueprint to support school districts, teachers, and local program providers with the ultimate goal of achieving environmental literacy for all of California’s 6.2 million K–12 students.

• Take your 5E based NGSS Unit to the Next Level by Integrating Environmental Programs and Field Experiences
• Using EEI Curriculum Resources to Support Environment-Based 3-D Learning
• How to Make 3 Dimensional Thinking Visible
• Desalination for a Thirsty State
• Energize Schools: No-Cost Solar & Sustainability PBL Curriculum and Support
• Harnessing the Power Experiential Learning through High Resolution Immersive Virtual Field Experiences
• SC10: Teaching CA NGSS Through Environmental Literacy

Exploratorium

The Exploratorium, located in San Francisco, is well-renowned for its professional learning offerings and the Exploratorium Teacher Institute. Take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to attend workshops presented by the amazing team from the Exploratorium!

• Inquiry and 3D NGSS Instruction in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms
• Discourse and 3D NGSS Instruction in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms
• Getting Attracted to Magnetism: Using Hands-on Activities to Build Mental Models
• Slow Your Roll: Building Intuition About Motion
• Retrain Your Brain: Modeling Motor Learning
• Seeing Is Believing, or Is It?: Human Perception and NGSS Investigations from the Exploratorium
• Using Atmospheric NOAA Data as an Anchoring Phenomenon to Explore the Carbon Cycle

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Since opening in 1984, more than two million schoolchildren and teachers have come through the doors of the Monterey Bay Aquarium—for free. They offer in-depth programs for students and teachers that reach thousands more. Each year hundreds of teachers and school administrators come to the Aquarium to enhance their knowledge and add to their collection of classroom activities. - Take advantage of this opportunity to experience professional development provided my Monterey Bay Aquarium teacher professional development staff.

• Biomagnification in Ocean Food Webs: You are What You Eat
• Fishing for the Future – How Data Drives Conservation Decisions
• Ocean Acidification – Developing and Using a Model to Deepen Understanding of the Ocean-Atmosphere System
• Coding Is Elementary
• Age-Appropriate Conservation Science
• Otters in Action
• Tools to Inspire Environmentalism

San Francisco Unified School District

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Science Team is committed to supporting the practice of daily science experiences for all students that will prepare them for the world to come. Take advantage of this opportunity to engage with educators from a district with plan for NGSS implementation.

• Development of NGSS Aligned Common Learning Experiences in High School Science
• Implementing NGSS Aligned High School Science Core Curriculum
• NGSS Chemistry and Climate Change
• Implementing NGSS in Grades 6-8
• Using Literacy Strategies to Build Conceptual Understanding of Climate Change
• Evaluating and Piloting NGSS aligned Instructional Materials for Adoption
• Aligning K-5 Report Cards to the NGSS
• Toolkit for Science Pedagogy: Supporting SFUSD Teachers with NGSS Shifts
• Utilizing Existing Materials to Teach the NGSS and Develop Environmental Literacy