Making It All Add Up: National Math Summit
This year’s Mathematics Summit was held as a two-day preconference event at the NADE Annual Conference in Anaheim in March. Once again the Summit brought together those in the…
Missouri Science Teachers Learn From Being in the Students’ Seat
What happens when you get elementary school teachers together for immersive, hands-on summer science workshops? It can be an electrifying experience, as participants in the Quality Elementary Science Teaching (QuEST)…
Field Notes from Education City, Doha, Qatar
Along with Drs. Joanna Smith and Heather McClure of the University of Oregon, I recently spent 10 days exploring Education City, an international higher education hub in Doha, Qatar, on…
Hands-On Science Teaching in Missouri
Program evaluation is always interesting, some days more than others! Right now I’m in Columbia, MO, for the National Science Foundation-funded Quality Elementary Science Teaching (QuEST) Summer Institute 2015. My…
Improve Education Through Arts and Creativity
Ross Anderson, senior lead researcher at EPIC, penned an article for Eugene’s Register-Guard about ArtCore, a new arts education program to be implemented in five Lane County Schools, through a…
Hey Science Teachers, Make it Fun | Tyler DeWitt
A science teacher explains how student feedback helped him to improve his lesson plans and calls on other teachers to revolutionize the way they teach.
Math Class (Imagined by Kids) | Kid Snippets
Young girls lip dub a scene of a math teacher trying to teach a lesson to a student who is just not understanding.
Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS )is a resource bank of science performance assessment tasks for Grades K-12 that are indexed to the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and other standards frameworks.
NGSS: Classroom Sample Assessment Tasks
The Classroom Sample Tasks blend content, practices, and concepts from both the NGSS and the CCSS. Teachers across the disciplines have collaborated to write sample tasks, which are the result of a vision of integrating science, engineering, and mathematics for classroom use.
Inside Mathematics: Performance Assessment Tasks
The Inside Mathematics website hosts grade-level formative performance assessment tasks with accompanying scoring rubrics and discussion of student work samples.