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Download full textTyler, Burr; Britton, Ted; Nguyen, Kimberly; Estrella, Denise; Arnett, Elizabeth; Iveland, Ashley; Nilsen, Katy – WestEd, 2020
The NGSS Early Implementers Initiative was created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations, supported by WestEd's K-12 Alliance, implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Many educational initiatives are funded for only a couple of years. This unique initiative spanned an extraordinary six…
Descriptors: State Standards, Science Education, Science Instruction, School Districts
Tyler, Burr; Estrella, Denise; Britton, Ted; Nguyen, Kimberly; Iveland, Ashley; Nilsen, Katy; Arnett, Elizabeth; Valcarcel, Josh – WestEd, 2020
Over the course of six years, a diverse group of school districts and charter management organizations in California ran a substantial experiment in implementing the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in elementary and middle grades. WestEd led an extensive evaluation of that effort, the California K-8 NGSS Early Implementers Initiative,…
Descriptors: Science Education, State Standards, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
Nilsen, Katy; Iveland, Ashley; Tyler, Burr; Britton, Ted; Nguyen, Kimberly; Arnett, Elizabeth – WestEd, 2020
This 13th report in WestEd's evaluation of the K-8 Early Implementers Initiative for the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) provides an extensive response to the following question: What does NGSS science teaching look like in the classroom? The report first discusses Initiative teachers' experiences with four instructional practices that…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Education, Science Teachers, Teaching Methods
Tyler, Burr; Britton, Ted; Iveland, Ashley; Valcarcel, Joshua; Schneider, Steve – WestEd, 2016
This first Early Implementers Initiative evaluation publication discusses one of the major shifts required by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), namely the shift to integrated instruction. The integration of science and English language arts (ELA) is the focus of the first main section, and the integration of the science disciplines…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Science Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
