Improve your math knowledge during the summer? That may seem a little too… academic for the average high school student’s summer break plans. But thanks to a generous gift from the Mara W. Breech Family Foundation, Math for America San Diego (MfA SD) held two decidedly “unacademic” Summer Academies for 80 incoming ninth and tenth…
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The NGSS Classroom: SDSP Tackles Argumentation in Secondary Science
(Photo by Melanie Villanueva, @MrsVchemistry) If you were asked, “Is climate change actually occurring?” would you base your answer on what you believe, or are you able to back your answer with evidence to support your claim? In science, the practice of argumentation – making a claim, providing evidence, and offering strong reasoning to support…
Advancing Literacy for All: San Diego Area Writing Project Receives Literacy Award
SDAWP’s Carol Schrammel (right) accepts a Celebrate Literacy Award from the Greater San Diego Reading Association on May 5. The San Diego Area Writing Project at UC San Diego was recognized with a Celebrate Literacy Award for its 41 years of professional development service at this year’s Greater San Diego Reading Association’s Literary Awards ceremony….
Embracing a Growth Mindset in Elementary-to-Middle School Math: SDMN Welcomes Jo Boaler
Stanford Professor Jo Boaler (right) and her colleague Cathy Williams (seated) discuss how new findings on the ways we learn are changing how teachers facilitate learning for students. The noise level rose in the ballroom as excited teachers waved colleagues over, making room at their tables and eagerly awaiting the start of what promised to…
Best of San Diego Math Network Learning Events, March 2018
The San Diego Math Network, a network linking math educators from the San Diego Unified School District, Sweetwater Union High School District, Chula Vista Elementary School District, and Vista Unified School District (as well as countywide!) sponsored a range of learning opportunities for local mathematics educators earlier this year. Funded by an initial grant from…
CSTA Reboots to Support Computer Science Educators
Art Lopez and Dr. Beth Simon (third and fourth from left) with members of UC San Diego’s “CS foreach” student organization at the January CSTA session at Liberty Station. We live in a time of face-recognition iPhones, virtual reality experiences and artificial intelligence. Consider this: In 2011, only 10 percent of San Diego County high…
Innovation and Networking at UC San Diego’s ‘Teaching for Impact’ Education Conference
Light morning drizzle and grey skies could not stop 230 dedicated educators from attending “Teaching for Impact: Innovative Practices for Today’s Standards,” the third annual conference for local educators hosted by UC San Diego’s Department of Education Studies (EDS) and the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment and Teaching Excellence (CREATE). Held at Pepper…
NGSS POWER Grant Energizes South Bay Teachers
Picture a group of science teachers huddled together, arranging themselves as human bowling balls, billiard balls and other moving objects, and moving in slow motion to demonstrate the science of energy transfer. Or imagine constructing the strongest brick possible using only bamboo skewers, an aluminum pan and a polyurethane foam. These along with other creative…
Math for America San Diego Summer Institutes: Teachers Plunge into CCSS-M Centered Work
“In other professional development programs, they teach us how to teach. In this one, they teach us how to teach math,” noted one teacher at a recent Math for America San Diego summer institute. Math for America San Diego (MfA SD), a national mathematics fellowship and teacher professional development program housed in CREATE, held three…
Doing a Deep Dive: Biology Teachers Explore Antarctic Invertebrates at SIO
Ever wonder what lies deep beneath the waters near the South Pole? At the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), local biology teachers are taking a look at Antarctic marine invertebrates and the role geography plays in connecting these populations from South America to Antarctica. Spearheaded by Cheryl Peach, director of Scripps Educational Alliances, along with…
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