Science Discourse Community

Music can be magic in science class

Music can be a wonderful tool for proactive classroom management and building community in science.

Permission to Fail — In Order to Soar

The essential questions we develop for each unit help drive lesson planning and focus our choice of activities. But the strategic focus questions we develop for students will provide a bridge between their lived experiences and our curriculum, like a key to unlock their curiosity and reveal their prior understandings.

Classroom Community

When I was a brand-new teacher, I knew it was important to have my lessons planned carefully, and to learn my students’ names. Like most new teachers, I worked hard my first year developing curriculum and figuring out my classroom management strategies. I loved teaching biology to teenagers, I was fired up about inquiry teachingContinue reading “Classroom Community”