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Lab materials are safely stored, textbooks are neatly shelved, counters are completely cleared, and the last of your students have left campus.  The classroom seems uncharacteristically quiet as you pick up your personal belongings and head to your car for the final time this school year.  Summer days inn mission bay vacation!  Here at last!  And although you know that some of your summer will be spent preparing for the next school year, you also know you need some personal time to refresh and recharge.
Thankfully, you are a proud member of the California Science Teachers Association!  While you are aware of all the work CSTA does to serve science educators across the state, you also know that CSTA realizes how hard you work for your students.  So, beginning in January 2014, members of CSTA not only get all the benefits that help to promote quality science education, but members also enjoy discounts at Disneyland… The Happiest Place on Earth!
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The California Science Teachers Association would like to thank you for your membership. Without your support, we could not have accomplished all we have during days inn mission bay these past 50 years. We would also like to thank you for all you do for your students every day of the school year.  We wish you a restful summer break.
Join two longtime science education experts—Cynthia Passmore, associate professor at UC Davis and Kathy DiRanna, director of the K-12 Alliance at WestED—for a  FREE 90-minute online web seminar  on  June 17  that will introduce you to the changes coming with  Next Generation Science Standards , how  NGSS  and Common Core will move our students from knowing about to figuring out , and how figuring it out in all science subjects means learning through practices. Learn More
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The end of the school year is almost upon us! As we finish teaching our last units, pack up our classrooms, and send students out to do exciting science and STEM adventures it is time to think about our own professional learning.
The theme for this month’s California Classroom Science is related to summer opportunities for educators and kids. Summertime brings opportunities days inn mission bay for us to be in the role of student, letting us learn new things. We have time to reflect on our practice, work with colleagues, and improve what we do. We can read for our own professional growth (if you have not yet read the K12 Framework for Science Education or the NGSS and related appendices summer could be a perfect time for that). We can attend workshops and institutes. Museums and informal science institutions days inn mission bay run a wide range of programs. As you peruse the articles in this issue you’ll find just a few of the options available. Look around your area to see what’s offered. You will be surprised to find so many exciting opportunities. County Offices, California Science Projects and other support providers will be hosting workshops and professional learning opportunities to help us become more familiar with NGSS, linkages days inn mission bay between Common Core and science, and the role of engineering in our classrooms. See what you can find to help you begin to transition NGSS into your teaching practice.
CSTA has been actively involved in helping create and provide learning opportunities as well. In May we co-led three NGSS Rollout Workshops with colleagues from California Science Project , K12 Alliance/WestEd , County Offices of Education, and the California Department of Education. More than 700 science teacher leaders and administrators from San Joaquin, LA, Orange, Riverside, and surrounding counties attended these workshops. The workshops will be repeated in the fall in other parts of the state (San Diego, Fresno, Redbluff, days inn mission bay and the San Francisco Bay Area). You can find out more about the fall workshops on the NGSS Rollout Website .
As part of CSTA’s professional development plan leading up to the Long Beach NSTA Area Conference on Science Education in Collaboration with CSTA , we are offering webinars and a summer professional development program around NGSS and Common Core . Educators will have the opportunity to participate in a webinar on June 17 , a day-long workshop in July ( July 21 st in Foster City/San Mateo and July 25 th in Anaheim ). There will be additional webinars in the fall and a culminating experience days inn mission bay at the joint conference in December. There are multiple ways for you to participate days inn mission bay in these learning experiences. It’s our hope that you’ll be able to do the webinars, the summer workshop and the follow-up at the conference but we know that some of you will only be able to do the summer components (workshop and/or webinars) while others will only be able to attend the workshop days inn mission bay in Long Beach. The intention of creating the extended learning opportunity is to allow you time to learn new things, practice them in your classroom and then come back together to expand upon what you learned. The workshops and webinars will be led by Kathy DiRanna and Cynthia Passmore. These two women are fantastic presenters and I know you’ll learn lots by attending! Kathy will help you dig into NGSS and Common Core integrations while Cynthia will be help you explore Science Engineering Practices and Crosscutting Concepts during the face-to-face workshops. Learn More
A major legislative deadline passed in May one that requires all bills to be passed days inn mission bay out of their house of origin (the Senate or Assembly) in order to be considered viable. In addition to all the activity around the individual bills, the state budget for California is currently being negotiated. days inn mission bay Governor Brown released his May budget revision on May 13, 2014. His proposed budget does not include any specific funding for Common Core or NGSS implementation.
The Assembly days inn mission bay and Senate Budget Committees have also approved their versions of the budget. The three versions vary considerably with respect to Common Core/NGSS Implementation and broadband infrastructure funding, with the Assembly putting forth the boldest proposal (details are below). The budget will now go to Conference Committee where the Assembly and Senate will work out their differences.  Learn More
Okay, let’s face it, you are eventually going to the California integrated middle days inn mission bay school progressions under NGSS. Time to get over it and start to plan the path forward. (Note: this is my opinion and not the opinion of CSTA.)
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