Welcome to the Science Communities of Practice Partnership Website
Welcome to the Science Communities of Practice Partnership Website
This site was developed for the Science Communities of Practice Partnership and the Elementary Science Partnership and is intended to provide quick and easy access to the resources elementary educators need for implementation of the NGSS in classrooms and across their school system.
This site was developed for the Science Communities of Practice Partnership and the Elementary Science Partnership and is intended to provide quick and easy access to the resources elementary educators need for implementation of the NGSS in classrooms and across their school system.
Contents include a searchable CA-NGSS database, instructional strategies and pedagogy resources, original and curated science content developed in partnership with CSU East Bay science faculty , a Lesson study toolkit, and a District Leadership Teams toolkit.
Contents include a searchable CA-NGSS database, instructional strategies and pedagogy resources, original and curated science content developed in partnership with CSU East Bay science faculty , a Lesson study toolkit, and a District Leadership Teams toolkit.
About ESP
About ESP
Elementary Science Partnership (ESP) is a professional development partnership aimed at transforming science teaching and learning in predominately low-income schools serving underrepresented minority students and English language learners.
Elementary Science Partnership (ESP) is a professional development partnership aimed at transforming science teaching and learning in predominately low-income schools serving underrepresented minority students and English language learners.
The partnership focuses on teachers in the upper elementary grade bands and administrators for intensive and ongoing professional development while focusing on building organizational capacity within and amongst partners. ESP is part of the ongoing professional development offered by the Science Partnership led by the Alameda County Office of Education and California State University, East Bay.
The partnership focuses on teachers in the upper elementary grade bands and administrators for intensive and ongoing professional development while focusing on building organizational capacity within and amongst partners. ESP is part of the ongoing professional development offered by the Science Partnership led by the Alameda County Office of Education and California State University, East Bay.
These materials were developed by project staff as part of the NSF Discovery Research K12 (DRK12) Science Communities of Partnership Project (SCOPP). Award Number: 1813012
Principal Investigator: Kathryn Hayes; Co-Principal Investigator: Dawn O'Connor, Jeffery Seitz, Christine Bae
Project Staff
Project Staff
CSUEBAssociate Vice President, Research and Sponsored ProgramsProfessor, Earth and Environmental SciencesCo-InvestigatorEarth Science Content Lead
Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAssistant Professor, Foundations of EducationCo-Investigator
Michael Gebreslassie
Graduate Student ResearcherLinda Preminger
Teacher ResearcherSarah Ansari
Graduate StudentResearcherKenya Taylor
Undergraduate ResearcherAa’ishah Riaz
Undergraduate Researcher