Welcome to the BPS Science family!
Photo Credit: Molly Peters
We are a small group of passionate people committed to providing the best science, technology & engineering learning opportunities to the students of the Boston Public Schools. We believe that we have some of the most wonderfully skilled teachers and school leaders and we collaborate with them to prepare every one of our students for a bright and successful future!
Additional science information and documents are located on SIS/Aspen; assessments and materials that we license are housed on the Science page there. We hope to see you at science PD or at an upcoming Science Social. Please come back to the site frequently -- we will try to make it worthwhile every time you visit! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter and share all of the exciting things happening in your classrooms and in BPS Science! Oh-- and send photos and stories of you and your students! We love to hear about your great work!
Please contact me with questions or suggestions. Wishing you the best!
Holly Rosa
Director, K-12 Science, Technology & Engineering
Additional science information and documents are located on SIS/Aspen; assessments and materials that we license are housed on the Science page there. We hope to see you at science PD or at an upcoming Science Social. Please come back to the site frequently -- we will try to make it worthwhile every time you visit! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter and share all of the exciting things happening in your classrooms and in BPS Science! Oh-- and send photos and stories of you and your students! We love to hear about your great work!
Please contact me with questions or suggestions. Wishing you the best!
Holly Rosa
Director, K-12 Science, Technology & Engineering
Our Vision for K-12 Learning in the Science and Engineering Disciplines:
Science for All
It is the vision of the Boston Public Schools Science Department that every student, from preschool through high school graduation, is entitled to learn by actively engaging in the science and engineering practices and making sense of scientific phenomena, using their observations and data through talk, reading, and writing. Each and every day, students work with materials and ideas to explore and deepen their understanding of the disciplinary core ideas of physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and engineering. Lessons focus on the “big ideas” of these disciplines by integrating natural phenomena and providing opportunities to construct knowledge by asking questions and carrying out investigations, as well by defining problems and designing solutions. Students explore science in their everyday lives and come to realize that they are capable scientists and engineers, whether they pursue a career in these fields or not. The diverse knowledge and skills that students bring from different backgrounds and cultural experiences provide rich perspectives and are assets upon which new understandings can be built. Students graduate ready to be critical consumers of science -- capable of analyzing data and critiquing arguments and participating in scientific discourse as citizens making informed decisions about the challenges that confront society.
<excerpt taken from our Essentials Aligned Science Instruction>
Science for All
It is the vision of the Boston Public Schools Science Department that every student, from preschool through high school graduation, is entitled to learn by actively engaging in the science and engineering practices and making sense of scientific phenomena, using their observations and data through talk, reading, and writing. Each and every day, students work with materials and ideas to explore and deepen their understanding of the disciplinary core ideas of physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and engineering. Lessons focus on the “big ideas” of these disciplines by integrating natural phenomena and providing opportunities to construct knowledge by asking questions and carrying out investigations, as well by defining problems and designing solutions. Students explore science in their everyday lives and come to realize that they are capable scientists and engineers, whether they pursue a career in these fields or not. The diverse knowledge and skills that students bring from different backgrounds and cultural experiences provide rich perspectives and are assets upon which new understandings can be built. Students graduate ready to be critical consumers of science -- capable of analyzing data and critiquing arguments and participating in scientific discourse as citizens making informed decisions about the challenges that confront society.
<excerpt taken from our Essentials Aligned Science Instruction>
Science Department Staff
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Holly Rosa
Director of K-12 Science, Technology & Engineering |
Molly Peters
Assistant Director Science, P-2 |
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Marianne Dunne
Senior Project Coordinator, ACCT Grant Joyce Bowen
Academic Response Teams, HS Manager for Science |
Nicole Guttenberg
Academic Response Teams, K-8 Manager for Science |
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Bev Nadeau
Science Materials Consultant |
Paulette Hunter-Emile, Dot Fitzgerald, &
Phil Morales Science Materials Technicians |
Pam Pelletier has retired and moved to sunny Florida! You can reach her here.
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