Flavio Mendez

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http//learningcenter.nsta.org
Flavio Mendez Senior Director NSTA Learning
Center
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The NationalScience Teachers Association
NSTAs MissionTo promote excellence and
innovation in Science Teaching and Learning for
All
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The NationalScience Teachers Association

• Membership, over 60,000
• Professional Development
• Conferences, 4/yr
• NSTA Learning Center
• NSTA Press
• Advocacy

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Purpose of todays presentation

• Present an overview of
• NSTAs new e-learning
• Professional Development
• PortalA system-based approach to providing
  high quality PD resources

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Looking at the Professional Development Landscape

• How do you receive the majority ofyour
  Professional Development?
• On-Site, 1-4 hour in-schoolin-service workshop
• On-site, 1-2 day DistrictTraining Day
• Summer, 1-2 Week Workshop
• Online, 4-8 week University Short Course for 1-3
  hours of Graduate Credit

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Looking at the Professional Development Landscape

• How many hours of PD did you receive last year?
• 1-20 hours
• 21-40 hours
• 41-60 hours
• 61-80 hours
• 80 hours

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What Constitutes High Quality andHigh Impact
Professional Development?

• Time Span (on-going, not one shot opportunity)
• Contact Hours (30-80 hours to change practice)
• Emphasizes Active Learning and Collective Teacher
  Participation
• Content-Focus
• Coherence (individual plan for long term growth)
• Linked to Systemic Reform and Teacher Input
• Laura M. Desimone University of Pennsylvania
• Iris Weiss, Horizon Research, Inc., Chapel Hill,
  NC

Workshop for State Leader and Evaluators of
Teacher Professional DevelopmentWashington, DC,
April 24-25, 2008
Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice in
Professional Development Washington, DC Februrary
7-8, 2006
http//www.ccsso.org/projects/improving_evaluation
_of_professional_development/Meetings/
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Bridging the Gap betweenResearch and Practice in
PD
What we knowLocal Systemic Change Core
Evaluation K-8 Weaknesses (75,000 data points)

• Teachers of Science with less than 16 hours of
  PD in Science Education in last 3 years
• What at K-4 level?
• What at 5-8 level?
• What at 9-12 level?

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Looking Inside the Classroom A Study of K-12
Mathematics and Science Education in the United
States10 yr longitudinal national classroom
observation study Horizon Research, Weiss, 2003
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The ResearchIncreased Content Knowledge
A positive correlation exists between student
achievement and teachers content
knowledge(Cochran-Smith and Zeichner, 2005
Darling-Hammond and Bransford, 2005 Goldhaber
and Brewer, 1998 Goldhaber and Brewer, 2000
Grossman, 2005 Ma, 1999 Monk, 1994 Wenglinsky,
2002 Wilson, Floden and Ferrini-Mundy, 2001)
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The ChallengeAccessible Content Knowledge

• How to provide PD resources that are
• affordable
• of High Quality
• standards-aligned
• content-specific
• available on-demand
• supports local curriculum
• to reach the nations 2.1 millionteachers of
  science?

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Multimedia Overview
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Scalable, Sustainable, and Customized
Professional Development
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Collaborators
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Nov. 2008 Collection 2,900 PD Resources and
Opportunities Available
SciGuides 27 Science Objects 56 SciPacks
14 Archived Web Seminars 104
Web Seminars 30-40/yr Short Courses 3-4/yr
Journal Articles 2206 NSTA Press Books
230 eBooks 23 eChapters 453
Symposia 10-13/year PD Institutes 10-13/year
Over 850 resources and all tools FREE!
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If District or State Partnership Everything
except books and online short courses are free to
teachers _at_ 100 /teacher/year
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Featured e-PDLearning Center Resources
Opportunities
supported by
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Featured e-PD resourceswithin the Learning Center

• 2 hour free online learningexperience in a
  particular topic
• Interactive simulations of phenomena in an
  engaging way
• Questions to promote interaction and learning via
  inquiry strategy
• Based on science literacy goalsin science
  education standards

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Featured e-PD resourceswithin the Learning Center

• Sample Interactives and Multimedia from various
  Science Objects
• Air Cart
• Fma
• Make a Reef

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Featured e-PD resourceswithin the Learning Center
A total of 56 one-two hour Science Objects are
freely available now at The NSTA Learning Center.
Topic Areas

• Force and Motion
• The Universe
• The Solar System
• Gravity and Orbits
• Energy
• Coral Ecosystems
• Resources and Human Impact

• Earth, Sun Moon
• Coral Reef Ecosystems
• Plate Tectonics
• Rock Cycle
• Oceans Effect on Weather and Climate
• Science of Food Safety
• Cell Structure Function
• Earths Changing Surface

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Featured e-PDLearning Center Resources
Opportunities
supported by
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Featured e-PD resourceswithin the Learning Center

• 10 Hour Online and On-Demand Learning Experience
• 3-5 Free Science Objects, plus
• Pedagogical Implications component
• Final Assessment
• Individualized support via Content Wizard

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Featured e-PD resourceswithin the Learning Center
Pedagogical Implications Component

• Distills research by grade-band
• Identifies known preconceptions
• Presents the best practices and instructional
  strategies to consider when teaching the key
  ideas in SciPack

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NSTAs SolutionScience Objects
N A T I O N A L S C I E N C E T E A C H E R S
A S S O C I A T I O N
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Final Assessment Certificate
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Featured e-PD resourceswithin the Learning Center
Support Components for SciPacks

• Auto System Check Wizard(detects and assists
  with necessary plug-ins)
• Orientation/Navigation Support(how to navigate
  SciPack)
• Technical Support Help Desk(issues accessing
  content)
• Subject Matter Expert Wizard(intelligent coach
  via email)

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SciPack High Level Production Cycle
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SciPack Topics and Production Status
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Multiple District ScipackEvaluation Results
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Featured e-PDLearning Center Resources
Opportunities
supported by
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Featured e-PD resourceswithin the Learning Center

• Valuable classroom resources for science
• teachers interested in integrating the web
• into their teaching
• Each SciGuide consists of
• Approximately 100 standards-aligned
  web-accessible resources
• Customized lesson plans using selected web
  resources
• Teacher media vignettes describing and showcasing
  the lessons
• Samples of student work
• Interactives utilized in SciPack on same topic

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Sample of Student Work from Organisms SciGuide
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Third Party Evaluation

• 90 SciGuides are a valuable supplementalonline
  resource for educators
• Written content very efficient in providing
  introductions to topics and suggesting resources
• 100 SciGuides are laid out in a logical fashion
  that is easy to navigate consume from
  educators point of view.
• 100 SciGuides are effective resources that
• save educators time when searching for vetted
  URLs
• assist in implementing the web by the
  accompanying lesson plans, media vignettes, and
  samples of student work

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Featured e-PDLearning Center Resources
Opportunities
supported by
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• Interact with experts and colleagues from
  around the world
• Since 2003 we have done over 200 free web
  seminars to over 6,500 participants

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• Learning Center Tools

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• e-PD System Tools
• My Learning Center 2.0
• My Library and Notepad Tool 2.0
• My PD Plan and Portfolio Tool 1.0
• My Calendar Tool 1.0
• My PD Indexer 2.0
• My Transcript 1.0
• State/District Accountability Admin tools 1.0
• State Standards Alignment of Resources 1.0

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My Library

• Store and create collections of resources
• Create notes for individual resources
• Share your collections with colleagues

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Professional DevelopmentPlan and Portfolio Tool

• Create multiyear plan outlining your goals,
  evidences, and justifications for growth
• Upload files to demonstrate completion of
  goals with reflections
• Generate automatic PDF report with embedded URL
  links and images

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Exploring the PD Indexer
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Exploring the PD Indexer
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My Transcript Tool

• Track NSTA PD Experiences
• Receive certificates
• Generate PDF transcript report
• Share report with administrators

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NSTA e-PDProducts and Services

• Backend Administration District State Reports

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AccountabilityTracking Reports

• Track Resource Preferencesand Usage
• Which type and title of resources are in highest
  demand
• What resources are added to libraries

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SciPacks AdminTracking Reports

• Track SciPack Progress
• Frequency of Access
• Percentage of completion
• Final Assessment Results with Certificate
• Pre/Post Assessment Results

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Export Administrator Data for Reports
You can export your teachers pre/post assessment
data to an Excel spreadsheet to streamline your
report requirements
New!
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Where We Are Scaling Up ImplementationOver
28,000 Individual accounts with over 154,000
resourcesadded to users My Library

• West Virginia Department of Education
• New Hampshire Department of Education
• Hawaii Department of Education
• Vermont Department of Education
• Nebraska Department of Education
• Cincinnati Public School, Cincinnati, OH
• Louisville County Public Schools, Louisville, KY
• Gwinnett and Forsyth County Public Schools,
  Atlanta, GA
• Lincoln County Public Schools, Lincoln, NE
• Twin Harbors Science ConsortiumLASER Alliance,
  Mountain to Harbor Alliance, WA(Leadership
  Assistance for Science Education and Reform)
• Oregon Science Teachers Association
• Florida Science Teachers Association
• Zero-G Flight Initiative
• Duval County Public Schools, Jacksonville, FL
• Texas Education Service Center-36 TRC
• University of Texas, Tyler, TX
• Texas AM University, Texarkana, TX
• Towson University, Towson, MD

Over 20 State/District Partnershipsas of Nov 2008
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Deployment IHE Partnership for Graduate
CreditWest Virginia Department of Education

• Math/Science Partnership and21st Century Skills
  Initiative
• Blended with Face-to-Face PD
• Middle School and Special Education Teachers
• Phase III roll-out in 2008 (100 teachers/yr)
• Marshall University awards graduate credit

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Deployment Leverage Statewide Systemic
SystemTexas Regional Collaboratives in
Science/Math

• 36 TRCs provide high quality PD f2f toteachers
  ill-prepared in subjects they teach
• Two TRCs and one Education Service Center
  utilize SciPacks to augment summer institute
  training (blended model), begin summer 2008
• All TRCs incorporating Learning Center,
  requirement 1 SciPack and PD Plan Tool for 20
  hours of 105 hrs/year (900 teachers)

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• Nine Step Deployment Model Example
• Plan how fit into existing strategic science PD
  plan for district, and if desire evaluation
  partner
• Identify first wave of teachers/curriculum
  leaders for pilot (champions, mentors,
  specialist, master educators)
• Letter from home office informing about the
  value/purpose of rollout, followed-up with
  face-to-face discussion
• Provide 1 day onsite orientation to support
  launch
• All take identical SciPack for initial common
  experience
• Provide appropriate incentives and penalties as
  complete SciPacks, link to facilitated moderated
  discussion/PLC
• Admin monitor progress, usage, completion and
  pass rates
• Conduct monthly/quarterly follow-up telecons with
  NSTA
• Provide additional web seminars if/as needed

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The NSTA Learning Center Scalable, Sustainable,
Individualized, andOn-Demand e-ProfessionalDevel
opment http//learningcenter.nsta.org
Flavio MendezSenior DirectorNSTA Learning
Center PH 703-312-9250Email fmendez_at_nsta.org