NGSI: Crosscutting Concepts
- In-person | 2 full days
- For teachers of K–12 next generation science
Go beyond learning what is meant by each crosscutting concept into being able to effectively use crosscutting concepts in your own learning and supporting students doing the same.
Facilitation Academy
- One hour per day extension to any MSS Course
- For professional learning providers
Prepare staff developers to facilitate a specific MSS Course. Attendees experience the course as learners and delve into the techniques needed to facilitate it for participants.
Surveys & Assessments for Teachers and Leaders
- For leaders & professional learning providers
Use our surveys to collect professional learning feedback and determine teacher self-efficacy and confidence. Our assessments gauge student and adult science content knowledge assessment, teacher NGSS knowledge assessment, and teacher pedagogical science knowledge.
Investigations in Distance Teaching & Learning
- Remote | 30–90 min sessions
- For K–12 teachers, coaches, leaders
Learn to boost engagement and minimize roadblocks in distance learning. A series of sessions helps establish and support a community focus on optimizing distance teaching & learning.
Leading a Professional Learning Simulation
- In-person or remote | 1 full day or variable remotely
- For coaches, leaders, & professional learning providers
Support those responsible for shaping or implementing educational innovations. This simulation provides a low risk place to practice all the stages of implementing initiatives, lots of collaborative problem solving, and research on managing change, the critical importance of data, and building momentum for innovation.
Leading a Classroom Innovations PLC
- Remote | ~90 min
- For teacher leaders, coaches, administrators, and professional learning providers
Prepare yourself to support and lead PLC meetings using the Classroom Innovations protocol. Includes how to use the protocol in-person and remotely.
Leading a Making Sense of Student Work PLC
- Remote | ~90 min
- For teacher leaders, coaches, administrators, and professional learning providers
Prepare teacher leaders to support and lead PLC meetings using the Making Sense of Student Work protocol. Support for how to use the protocol in-person or remotely are provided.
Science & Engineering at Distance
- Remote | ~180 min
- For K–12 teachers, coaches, leaders
An adult-level science or engineering distance learning experience specifically designed to boost engagement and minimize roadblocks — coupled with an opportunity to unpack the design, facilitation principles, and technology use.
Dynamic Earth
- In-person | 5 full days
- For teachers of grades 4–5 next generation science
A well-balanced course that gets novice to veteran teachers collaboratively exploring and making sense of next generation science teaching and learning.
NGSI: Multidimensional Science Education
- In-person | 2 full days
- For teachers of K–12 next generation science
A deep dive into the eight dimension framework at the foundation of all MSS professional learning and student materials.
Facilitation Intensive
- In-person or remote | 1 full day or four 90-min sessions remotely
- For professional learning providers
Prepare teacher leaders and staff developers to facilitate professional learning. Rooted in MSS’s proven facilitation model, but not specific to leading MSS professional learning.
Force & Motion
- In-person | 5 full days
- For teachers of 6–8 science
Learn to facilitate hands-on science lessons, support evidence-based discussions, and develop students’ academic language and reading and writing skills in science.
Genes & Traits
- In-person | 5 full days
- For teachers of 6–8 science
Learn to facilitate hands-on science lessons, support evidence-based discussions, and develop students’ academic language and reading and writing skills in science.
Next Generation Schools Leadership Cadre
- Format varies | typically four 2-day in-person sessions, plus site-based observations, personalized remote coaching, and technical assistance
- For mixed school and district teams (admin, coaches, teachers)
Build a community to like-minded leaders striving for equitable student outcomes. Experience next generation classroom culture and instructional models. Plan for implementing innovations. Monitor and evaluate progress.
NGSI: Science & Engineering Practices
- In-person | 2 full days
- For K-12 teachers of next generation science
Make sense of the facilitation moves, classroom culture, and types of instructional materials that motivate and support learners, not just learning about science and engineering, but engaging in the work of scientists and engineers.
NGSI: Supporting Science Instruction
- In-person | 1 full day or 2 half-days
- For administrators, leaders, and coaches
Designed to prepare administrators to be instructional leaders in next generation science and set them up for success in providing essential supports to implementing teachers.
NGSI: Systems
- In-person | 2–3 full days
- For K-12 teachers of next generation science
The crosscutting concept is perfect for digging into next generation science for phenomena and solving problems and systems models.
NGSI: Waves
- In-person | 2–3 full days
- For middle school teachers of waves
This course covers the properties and behaviors of waves, the types of waves, and the ways waves are used in the transmission of data.
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