1. Learning and Growing Together WELCOME TO THE HAMILTON COUNTY SCIENCE LEADERS NETWORK MEETING October 15, 2015

2. Please Share:  Your Name  Your School  What You Teach or Your Role  What’s Your Favorite Thing To Do Outside of School GETTING TO KNOW YOUR GROUP!

3. Like Me! GETTING TO KNOW OUR NETWORK!

4. 1.Believe in the power of students and teachers to grow their intelligence. Intelligence can be grown through effort and continued learning. 2.Focus your work on our most precious asset, our students! Don’t get caught by the distractors. Support students by implementing meaningful tasks and high- leverage instructional practices that promote student learning, engagement and inquiry. TWO CORE BELIEFS:

5. Create an atmosphere of openness, collegiality and true professionalism through:  Shared Norms and Common Language  Promoting Growth through Collaboration and Continued Learning  Engaging Students through Research-based Best Practices  Encouraging Reflective Practice PURPOSE AND VISION:

6.  Keep student learning at the center of all decisions  Be respectful of other’s time — Begin and end on time  Monitor air time and share your voice  Be solutions oriented – For the good of the group, look for the possible  Risk productive struggle  Actively participate and bring requested materials  Share a sense of responsibility for student learning  Be professional at all times  Be the learner you want in your class SECONDARY SCIENCE DISTRICT NORMS

7. Review:  Habits of Interaction and Practice are the expected norms of the classroom and behaviors of Hamilton County students.  Informational Texts are to be carefully selected to provide context, extensions, and support for the learning of scientific concepts. They are not to replace the exploratory and inquiry-based nature of learning science. Update:  The new State Science Standards are ready for review! https://apps.tn.gov/tcas/  Our Science Assessments will be the same format for the next two years. There will be new assessments to reflect the new standards for the 2018-19 School Year. A QUICK REVIEW AND UPDATES

8. ENGAGING IN SCIENCE AS A LEARNER

9.  What did the task have you doing?  What elements of the task promoted your engagement and learning?  Where would this task fall on the TAGS? ENGAGING IN SCIENCE AS A TEACHER

10.  What instructional practices were used in the lesson? Where? Be Specific.  Which instructional practices helped you the most as a learner? How? Be specific. ENGAGING IN SCIENCE AS A TEACHER

11.  What Habits were evident in the lesson? Where? Be specific.  Did you experience any Habits that were not necessarily shared by your group? Where? Be specific. ENGAGING IN SCIENCE AS A TEACHER

12. Two Critical Challenges in Science Instruction:  Designing and selecting instructional tasks that provide opportunities for students to simultaneously engage with science practices and learn core concepts  Providing and managing opportunities for students to talk productively with one another about their problem-solving approaches, solutions, models, etc. TASKS MATTER

13. 5 PRACTICES FOR ORCHESTRATING PRODUCTIVE TASK-BASED DISCUSSIONS  What resonated with you? (Go-around)  What questions does this raise for you?  What are the implications for your work?

14. Morning Reflections

15.  What resonated with you? (Go- around)  What connections did you see between the article and the NSTA Position Statement?  How does the Growth Mindset connect to these readings?  What implications does this have for your work? INQUIRY AND LEARNING SCIENCE

16. DATA BIOLOGY TVAAS

17. DATA – BIOLOGY PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTIC

18. DATA CHEMISTRY TVAAS

19. DATA – CHEMISTRY PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTIC

20. DATA PLAN TVAAS

21. DATA –PLAN PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTIC

22. DATA ACT TVAAS

23. DATA –ACT PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTIC

24.  How does your school data compare to the district?  What surprised you?  What questions or curiosities does this raise?  What are your initial reactions as to implications to your work? YOUR SCHOOL DATA

25.  What surprised you about the test?  How was this test used in your school?  How can this test be used as a teaching tool? LOOKING DEEPER AT A FORMER OPERATIONAL TEST

26.  The quote that most resonated with me was _______ because… (Go- around)  Which idea do you find the most challenging to implement? Why? FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN THE SCIENCE CLASSROOM

27.  One idea that reasonated with me from the Preface was _________ because… (Go-around)  In my preview, ________ really sparked curiosity because… SCIENCE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

28. Connections

29. Planning for Redelivery

30. ASSESSING AND ADVANCING QUESTIONS