Welcome! A message from the STE team:
Updated : April 28, 2020
Photo Credit: Molly Peters
Dear STE Educator Family,
We find ourselves experiencing something we have read about only in history books. Seemingly overnight we have had to switch from daily interactions with our students, colleagues, friends, and family members to virtual learning and social distancing. As educators we never imagined there would be a time we could only connect with our students through a screen, text, or telephone.This new normal is full of challenges and new opportunities to engage students and work together. Our greatest asset to overcome these challenges is our community of STE educators and partners.
We (I along with Molly, Joyce, Marianne, Bev, and Nicole) are all working behind the scenes to support you through this transition to remote learning for the remainder of the school year. Together we will learn to navigate this new time and come out the other end with better strategies for online learning and ways to support ourselves, our families, and most importantly our students.
To utilize the array of expertise in our community we have created the BPS STE Community Google Classroom. In this time when we are all home-bound but continuing to work remotely, we thought this would be a wonderful opportunity to create a space within which we can all stay connected with each other in order to support our students. To that end we have designed this STE Community (Google) Classroom whereby as educators we can share resources, materials and ideas with each other that you can in turn use with your students. Many of you have already joined. If you have not, we welcome you to join our growing community with this code: goncy23.
In addition to the STE Community Google Classroom, we will continue to send out the newsletter biweekly and curate resources from our curriculum developers. In light of the recently released information from DESE, we will shift our development of resources to align with the identified prerequisite content standards. All of these resources will be shared in the newsletter and accessible through the Google Classroom with a BPS ID. All of our resources can be accessed via the Remote Learning Overview page.
We look forward to staying connected with all of you electronically. Be healthy! Stay well!
The STE Team: Holly, Molly, Marianne, Joyce, Nicole and Bev
Please do not hesitate to contact any member of the team with questions or concerns about anything. You will find everyone’s contact information below.
How to Protect Yourself Against Covid-19?
We find ourselves experiencing something we have read about only in history books. Seemingly overnight we have had to switch from daily interactions with our students, colleagues, friends, and family members to virtual learning and social distancing. As educators we never imagined there would be a time we could only connect with our students through a screen, text, or telephone.This new normal is full of challenges and new opportunities to engage students and work together. Our greatest asset to overcome these challenges is our community of STE educators and partners.
We (I along with Molly, Joyce, Marianne, Bev, and Nicole) are all working behind the scenes to support you through this transition to remote learning for the remainder of the school year. Together we will learn to navigate this new time and come out the other end with better strategies for online learning and ways to support ourselves, our families, and most importantly our students.
To utilize the array of expertise in our community we have created the BPS STE Community Google Classroom. In this time when we are all home-bound but continuing to work remotely, we thought this would be a wonderful opportunity to create a space within which we can all stay connected with each other in order to support our students. To that end we have designed this STE Community (Google) Classroom whereby as educators we can share resources, materials and ideas with each other that you can in turn use with your students. Many of you have already joined. If you have not, we welcome you to join our growing community with this code: goncy23.
In addition to the STE Community Google Classroom, we will continue to send out the newsletter biweekly and curate resources from our curriculum developers. In light of the recently released information from DESE, we will shift our development of resources to align with the identified prerequisite content standards. All of these resources will be shared in the newsletter and accessible through the Google Classroom with a BPS ID. All of our resources can be accessed via the Remote Learning Overview page.
We look forward to staying connected with all of you electronically. Be healthy! Stay well!
The STE Team: Holly, Molly, Marianne, Joyce, Nicole and Bev
Please do not hesitate to contact any member of the team with questions or concerns about anything. You will find everyone’s contact information below.
How to Protect Yourself Against Covid-19?
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, Technology & Engineering 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 |
Nicole Guttenberg, PhD
STE Program Director |
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Bev Nadeau
Science Materials Consultant |
Paulette Hunter-Emile, Dot Fitzgerald, and
Phil Morales Science Materials Technicians |
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