Friday, May 1st
4:00 pm Registration and Check-In begins
6:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm Keynote Address by Kate McNeill
Assistant Professor of Science Education at Boston College
Supporting Students in Science Thinking and Writing
9:00 pm Mixtures and Solutions :)
Saturday, May 2nd
7:00 am Breakfast
8:00 am Common Writing Assignment: Collaborative Scoring
What can we learn about students' understanding in science
through their writing?
9:45 am Teachable Moments: Claims, Evidence and Reasoning (and Rebuttal)
Exploring our science instructional materials
Noon Lunch
12:50 pm Where we are and where we are going...
Superintendent's Acceleration Agenda and Science
The alphabet-soup of science workshops: PTW, BSP, SEF and CWA
2:45 pm Wrap up and adjourn