Welcome to the 2013 Opening Week

Science Mini-Conference

Staff

Marty Davis - Program Manager Marshall.davis@spps.org

Greg Childs - Elementary Science Coach Gregory.childs@spps.org

Jaime Dery – Elementary Science Coach Jaime.dery@spps.org

Molly Leifeld –Middle School Science Coach Molly.leifeld@spps.org

Nancy Geving - Secondary Science Coach Nancy.geving@spps.org

WELCOME NEW SCIENCE

TEACHERS!

Congratulations!

Megan Hall2013 Minnesota

Teacher of the Year

Congratulations!

Sandy MuellnerMinnesota State Finalist for the

Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching

Sharing PLC Work

• Creating a Moodle repository of assessments teachers can refer back to at the unit level.• Working toward getting something for every

unit in each core subject area• Each PLC needs to upload one Unit containing

formative and summative assessments. • Similar to what was done for ECAs and

Common Core.

• Look for more information on the Moodle in the upcoming newsletters

Syllabi Form is Changing!

• Middle school core courses have already been transferred

• High School core courses will be transferred during this school year

• Course approval form has been changed:• Form can be found on the Center website

• More information can be found in the Science Newsletter

2013 Science MCA III Data

• Available as of August 27th

• Data now is broken down to the question level for each school.

• Jim and Dawn are presenting session for more detail

• More MCA III data workshops during the year.

• The Science team will disaggregate the data by race for each school this fall.

Today’s Schedule8:00 – 8:35 Opening Session

8:45 – 9:30 Session 1

9:35-10:20 Session 2

10:25-11:10 Session 3

11:15-12:00 Session 4

What’s new at the Mini-Conference?• MLR Credit Sessions:

• Introduction to Culturally Responsive Teaching (k-12) – meets differentiation

• Differentiation in your Science Classroom to meet the needs of all Students (k-12) – meets differentiation

• SPPS Apps for Science Teachers (k-12) – meets technology

• 50 Science Sites in 90 Minutes (k-12) – meets technology

• Science Reading Strategies for Comprehension (6-12) – meets Reading (AM and PM sessions)

• Science Safety Overview (PM session)

Some Ways to getYour Safety Training

• Today’s Science Safety Overview

• Flinn Science Safety course or Certificate courseo absafety.flinnsci.com/Home.aspx

• SPPS Science Safety Moodle Course

• Regular science safety meetings with your department or other teachers

Science Resources

• The Center website: http://thecenter.spps.org/

• Science House at Science Museum of MN

• District Materials Center (DMC) at 1930 Como

• FOSS website is only available until 2014

Science Monthly Newsletters

• Your source of information about what is going on in the SPPS science world.

• A prequel newsletter will be in your email inbox by the end of the week. (please forward the information to new teachers in your buildings who are not yet on our email lists)

• The first monthly newsletter will be out in early September.

We’ve Gone Digital!!!

• Educator Demographic Form• goo.gl/h93QaW

• Science Mini-Conference Evaluation• goo.gl/OVi1cU

• If you prefer paper copies, both forms will be available on the registration tables as you leave the auditorium

Overview of Equity

• Nancy Paez

• Myla Pope-Kamanda