Ambitious science instruction happens most effectively when it is intentional and supported over time.

Sci314 engages educators and instructional leaders in research-informed practices that support meaningful student sense-making in science. Multi-year learning plans are flexible in format and adapt with the changes brought by each new academic year.

Sci314 Includes:

Sci314 is fee-for-service program that offers adaptable multi-year professional learning plans that include professional learning, embedded support, and systemic support. These three dimensions work in tandem to foster an educational system where ambitious science teaching and learning thrive.

PD Sessions
Workshop style format in which teachers experience ideas and strategies to support student science learning. Topics chosen based on teacher needs. 
Coaching Cycles
3-part cycles that support teachers to plan and implement strategies from PD sessions. Can include the use of video to support teacher self-reflection.
Admin Walks
Classroom observations designed to support instructional leaders’ capacity to support teacher implementation efforts.
NGSS Content Academy PD Series
NGSS-based PD sessions with bridge-to-practice opportunities between sessions.
PLC Support
Educators are supported to understand science content and learning goals in their instructional materials and/or to analyze student work.
Content Development
Sci314 specialist works with instructional leaders to develop or adapt instructional materials, tools, or common assessments.
Book Study Series
Educators read and make meaning of a research-informed anchor text and develop action plans for implementing strategies.
Learning Labs
Collaborative opportunities for teams of teachers to co-plan a lesson, observe its implementation, and debrief.
Practical Research Showcase
Teachers across the St. Louis region develop pressing questions, measures, and outcomes from the classroom to present in a culminating poster session.

Sci314 Sample Packages:

• NGSS Content Academy PD Series + PLC Support + Admin Walks
• PD Sessions + Coaching Cycles + Practical Research Showcase
• Book Study Series + Learning Labs + Content Development
• PD Sessions + Coaching Cycles with Video + Video Club PLC +  Admin Walks

What We Believe

  1. Every child in every classroom deserves instruction that respects, obliges, and celebrates their brilliance and curiosity.
  2. Teaching has the power to open up or close down access to learning accomplishments and to imagining possible future selves.
  3. High-quality teaching can be learned and improved upon over a teacher’s career through effective, ongoing instructional support that respects, obliges, and celebrates their brilliance and curiosity.
  4. High-quality teaching is focused on subject matter content and includes high-leverage instructional practices informed by research on how students learn that content.
  5. Improving student learning outcomes and experiences requires aligned professional learning and embedded content-specific and systemic supports that are sustained over many years.

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Contact Us

For more information about Sci314, contact us at

schoolpartnership@wustl.edu

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