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Madhura Kulkarni, Assistant Director, Northern Kentucky University, Center for Integrative Science and Mathematics (CINSAM), Patricia Bills, STEM Outreach Specialist (NKU - CINSAM), Reeda Hart, Outreach Director (NKU - CINSAM) Carrie Holloway STEM Outreach Specialist (NKU - CINSAM) and Lila Brindley, STEM Outreach Specialist (NKU - CINSAM) The Next Generation STEM Classroom Project: PD for NGSS and Beyond STEM Initiative Models (1 hr. session) K-12 Teachers, Administrators, Curriculum Managers, Representatives from (Grade Level: K-7) The Next Generation STEM Classroom (ngSC) project, funded in 2013 by the Toyota Foundation, takes master teachers from Northern Kentucky University’s Center for Integrative Natural Science and Mathematics into 19 school districts across Northern Kentucky for embedded, sustained, professional development (PD) in STEM teaching and learning. The master teachers model best practices in real classrooms with real students for a group of in service and pre-service teachers, then retreat to another room for the second part of the PD, where participants explore and discuss the lesson in depth. Participants take their learning and resources back to their own teams in a teacher-lead model. Since its inception in Fall 2013, the ngSC has offered direct PD to over 500 teachers and 100 pre-service teachers, with considerable improvements in participants’ self-reported knowledge and understanding in several areas that they are evaluated upon by their own districts. In this session, presenters (including the ngSC’s three master teachers) will discuss the project, lead the audience through some ngSC activities and answer questions. 1 (8:30 AM - 9:30 AM) TUC 400B
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