Welcome to It’s Time for Science! For our first episode of 2024, host Tom Racine continues our dialog on fairness in science training! Tom talks with Meagan Sternberg, a Ok-12 Science Educational Coach in Oregon, and Channon Jackson, a Program Director on the Alameda County Workplace of Training.
Episode Abstract
Tom discusses with Ms. Sternberg and Ms. Jackson how their work helps fairness, entry, and inclusion within the science classroom and why this is a vital focus for them. They focus on what is required to offer extra equitable science instructing and studying and what they might advise educators and leaders to do to middle fairness of their methods.
We finish the episode with a number of phrases from Diana B. Vélez, creator of this month’s Insights article, Entry and Fairness: Altering How We View and Assist All College students.
Episode Visitors
Meagan Sternberg
Meagan Sternberg is a Ok-12 Science Educational Coach in North Clackamas Faculty District, Milwaukie, Oregon. Sternberg taught center faculty science for 16 years at two North Clackamas Faculty District faculties. Throughout that point, she developed abilities working with adults by way of skilled studying facilitation and state requirements implementation.
In 2011, she transitioned into an educational coach place centered on supporting science lecturers as Oregon transitioned to the Subsequent Era Science Requirements (NGSS). Her focus is now on supporting lecturers in implementing curriculum with a give attention to efficient educational practices by way of guiding teacher-leader groups and facilitating skilled studying classes.
Channon Jackson
Channon Jackson is a Program Director on the Alameda County Workplace of Training in Hayward, California. As an elementary instructor for 15 years, Ms. Jackson cherished instructing science. She grew to become a science lead instructor within the Oakland Unified Faculty District and spent a yr working as a science curriculum author on the Lawrence Corridor of Science™.
As a program director, Channon makes use of her love for college students, science, and integration to create supportive skilled studying alternatives in her county and all through the state.
Writer of January’s FOSS Perception Article: Diana B. Vélez
Diana B. Vélez is a curriculum developer {and professional} studying supplier for the Full Possibility Science System Mission (FOSS Ok–8) on the Lawrence Corridor of Science. She focuses on English language growth and the mixing of literacy in science instructing and studying. Ms. Vélez assists within the growth and implementation of FOSS educational supplies and creates pedagogical assets that assist entry and fairness.
She additionally leads skilled studying experiences for educators, directors, households, and group members utilizing FOSS educational supplies to develop scientific literacy, instructor capability, and systemic change in faculties and districts nationwide and internationally. Earlier than coming to the Lawrence Corridor of Science, Ms. Vélez was the academic chief for a science-centered elementary faculty in Oakland, California, and a founding member and instructor in a Spanish dual-immersion program.
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