Successful STEM Education | Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

STEM Smart: Lessons Learned from Successful Schools

Hilton San Francisco Financial District
San Francisco, California
February 01, 2016

**Downloads: CA STEM Smart Agenda_0.pdf | STEM_Smart_Presenter_Bios.pdf | CA STEM Smart Session Descriptions.pdf**
Time	Description
8:30am - 9:00am	Registration and Informal Networking (Coffee served) Location: Grand Ballroom, Third Floor
9:00am - 9:30am	Welcome and Opening Remarks Location: Grand Ballroom, Third Floor Barbara Brauner Berns, Senior Project Director, Education Development Center, Inc. Evan Heit, Director, Division of Research on Learning, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation Trish Williams, Member, California State Board of Education \| View Presentation
9:30am - 10:30am	Implications of the Three-Dimension Vision of the NGSS Location: Grand Ballroom, Third Floor Joseph Krajcik, Michigan State University Jonathan Osborne, Stanford University \| View Presentation Helen Quinn, Stanford University \| View Presentation
10:30am - 10:45am	Break
10:45am - 12:00pm	Instructional Materials and Successful STEM Education—Morning Breakout Sessions Creating an Inclusive Active Learning Culture in Science Education : Samantha Daley, CAST; Sybil Kelley and Dilafruz Williams, Portland State University \| View Presentation Location: Washington, Second Floor Incorporating the Standards into Ecology and Environmental Science Classrooms : Barbara Nagle, Lawrence Hall of Science; Gillian Puttick, TERC \| View Presentation Location: Montgomery, Second Floor Supporting Teacher Learning in New Ways : Leema Berland, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Suzanna Loper, University of California, Berkeley \| View Presentation Location: Mason I, Second Floor Supporting Adaptation of Curriculum Materials to Bring Three Dimensional Teaching and Learning into K-12 Classrooms : Cynthia Passmore, University of California, Davis; Brian Reiser, Northwestern University \| View Presentation Location: Mason II, Second Floor Teacher Professional Development in the Age of the NGSS : Sara Heredia, Exploratorium; Bethany Sjoberg, Highline Public Schools; Jessica Thompson, University of Washington \| View Presentation Location: Sansome, Second Floor Tools for Evaluating Alignment of Instructional Materials with the NGSS and Supporting Implementation : Aneesha Badrinarayan and Jennifer Childress, Achieve \| View Presentation Location: Jackson, Second Floor
12:00pm - 12:15pm	Break
12:15pm - 12:45pm	Networking Lunch (Lunch served) Location: Foyer, Third Floor
12:45pm - 1:45pm	Lessons Learned from Early NGSS Implementation Location: Grand Ballroom, Third Floor David Campbell, National Science Foundation (Introductions) Steven Schneider, WestEd (Moderator) Kirk Brown, San Joaquin County Office of Education Kathy DiRanna, WestEd Maria Chiara Simani, CA Science Project Craig Strang, Lawrence Hall of Science
1:45pm - 2:00pm	Break
2:00pm - 3:15pm	Instructional Materials and Successful STEM Education —Afternoon Breakout Sessions Can We Enhance our Curriculum with Cyberlearning Resources? : Jennifer Chiu, University of Virginia; Kathy Perkins, University of Colorado Boulder; Jeremy Roschelle, SRI International \| View Presentation Location: Washington, Second Floor New Standards Bring New Expectations: A Look at the Convergence of Science and Literacy across Grades K-12 : Jacqueline Barber, Lawrence Hall of Science; Jacqueline Miller, Education Development Center, Inc. \| View Presentation Location: Montgomery, Second Floor Creating and Experimenting with Models : Joseph Krajcik, Michigan State University; James Lester and Robert Taylor, North Carolina State University \| View Presentation Location: Mason I, Second Floor Technology-Enhanced Assessments for Contemporary Science Classrooms : Christopher Harris, SRI International; Marcia Linn, University of California, Berkeley \| View Presentation Location: Mason II, Second Floor A Tale of Two Districts: Implementing the NGSS in Oakland and San Francisco : Caleb Cheung, Oakland Unified School District; Sarah Delaney, San Francisco Unified School District \| View Presentation Location: Sansome, Second Floor What Are the “Look Fors” to Assess the Quality of Instructional Materials in Light of the NGSS? : Jody Bintz and Daniel Edelson, Biological Science Curriculum Study \| View Presentation Location: Jackson, Second Floor
3:15pm - 3:30pm	Break
3:30pm - 3:45pm	Closing Remarks Location: Grand Ballroom, Third Floor