NWESD Science Announcements and Opportunities

NGSS In Action: Science & Engineering in Your Community We are excited to offer a workshop series that explores how your schoolyard and community can bring the Next Generation Science Standards alive for students while building the foundations students need to understand everything from local environmental concerns to global climate change. Stipends and STEM clock hours are provided. The full day sessions include free lunch and childcare . The first workshop is taking place at the Brightwater Center near Woodinville on August 25 th so sign up yourself and/or your team today! Brad Street, M. Ed Urban Programs Manager Pronouns: he/him/his IslandWood in Seattle | 810 Third Avenue, Suite 236 | Seattle, WA 98104 O: 206.855.7073 | C: 206.491-1648 islandwood.org

From: Project 2061 <project2061@aaas.org> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2018 5:00 AM Subject: Free Science Curriculum Workshop by AAAS Project 2061 (SSsnwns) Dear Science Educator, PLEASE SHARE WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES. Middle school science and high school biology teachers are invited to submit an application to attend a free one-day workshop hosted by Project 2061, the science education initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The workshop is also open to science specialists or administrators with science curriculum responsibilities. The workshop, "Supporting Three-dimensional Learning and Teaching with New Curriculum Materials," will be held on Thursday, August 2, 2018, at AAAS Headquarters, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, in Washington, DC. Led by the Project 2061 research and development team, the workshop will introduce participants to a pair of curriculum units designed to give students a coherent understand

From: Anton Jackson  Sent: Monday, May 21, 2018 8:30 AM Subject: Request: Committee Recommendations by Wednesday May 23 Good Monday Morning, The Science Assessment team from the Assessment Development Department here at OSPI is currently working to expand our participant list for Bias and Sensitivity committees, and we need your help! We hope that your unique access to a range of important communities will help increase participation of interested partners and stakeholders. We would very much appreciate if you could send the name and contact email (preferred) or phone number for anyone you feel could help us in this important work. This could include you, other OSPI staff, and partners/advocates from the field. We are seeking recommendations for members for our Bias and Sensitivity review committee. During the Bias and Sensitivity review, committee members evaluate science test questions to ensure they are free from content that might offend or unfair

From: "Willcuts, Peggy M (Meredith)" <peggy.willcuts@pnnl.gov> Date: Friday, April 20, 2018 at 12:46 PM To: Subject: Teacher/Scientist Partnership - Summer Ecology PD for Secondary Teachers at PNNL! Hey folks, I would like to share an exciting opportunity brought to you by PNNL and Association of Washington Business.  This is for secondary teacher teams (grades 6-12) in public or private schools in Washington State.  I am attaching a flyer to give you the finer details but I encourage you to also watch this video, taken at the end of last year's experience.  You can hear the voices of the teachers who participated in the weeklong immersion into Ecology:  https://Vimeo.com/247015906   Please take a look at the flyer and share widely.  We are taking applications now .  It will be on a first-come-first-serve basis for teams with completed application information submitted to me.  Each teacher would receive $1000 stipend to cover their

From: Genes in Space On Behalf Of Genes in Space Sent: Friday, April 6, 2018 6:02 AM To: Subject: We are in space again!  Design a DNA experiment for Space.  Inviting 7-12th grade students and teachers.  Be a space DNA pioneer! View this email in your browser In this Newsletter: 2 weeks left - Apply now !  We're in space again!  Last #GenesInSpaceChat of 2018 - join us next week!  Lab in a Box update  Part 2 - inside a mentor's lab with Junior Scientist Noa Popko  March travels - New York, Austin, El Paso, and Atlanta workshops 2 WEEKS LEFT! Applications for the 2018 Genes in Space contest are due by 11:59 PM Pacific Time on April 20th - less than one month from today! Have an idea for a DNA experiment in space?

Hi all, Today we held a webinar about the NGSS Design Badge. You can watch a recording of the webinar here .

Open March 19-April 13, 2018   Reminder: Contrasting Groups Study The Science Assessment team is offering training to science educators in the use of Achievement Level Descriptors (ALDs) to complete the Contrasting Groups Study (CGS). The purpose of the CGS is to inform the achievement level setting process for the Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science (WCAS) premiering in spring 2018. Three free clock hours will be provided to teachers who participate in the training and complete an evaluation. The CGS training course is available here: WCAS Contrasting Groups Study 2018 . Educators must complete the training before entering predictions for the study. The application in the Education Data System (EDS) that teachers will use for making their predictions will open on March 19 and close April 14 . This is an opportunity for all science teachers with students in grades 5, 8, or 11 to have a voice in the "