Partner Profile

OpenSciEd

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Free, high quality, NGSS-aligned science curriculum and professional learning
openscied.org

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OpenSciEd

was approved for the PLPG in

July 2023

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The “Types of support we offer” and “Our curriculum expertise” are evaluated and approved by Rivet Education; all other information is self-reported. We recommend that you confirm details with each partner directly.

How are partners selected for the PL Partner Guide?

All of the professional learning partners featured in the Guide undergo a thorough review process by a team of expert reviewers from across the country.

Read more about our evaluation process on the PLPG Rubric.

Each applicant must demonstrate expertise in providing high-quality, curriculum-aligned support to schools and school systems.

Unless specifically indicated, Rivet Education makes no claim that a publisher authorizes, approves, sponsors, or endorses any professional learning provider.

How are partners selected for the PL Partner Guide?
Who we are
In OpenSciEd classrooms, students learn science through discovery. Developed by leading science researchers and educators, our instructional model is designed to align with how students learn best. Our curriculum is phenomena-based and centers student-led questioning, investigating, and problem-solving, with teachers supporting students as learning facilitators, rather than lecturers. This approach fosters a classroom culture where everyone matters and is heard, building unique skills for educators and students, and empowering them in their education journey.
Types of support we offer
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Rivet Education evaluates this information

Adopting an ELA curriculum
Adopting a math curriculum
Adopting a science curriculum
Initial implementation
Ongoing implementation support for teachers
Ongoing implementation support for leaders
What are these phases?

These phases refer to the distinct areas of support (adoption, launch, ongoing for teachers, ongoing for leaders) that PL partners provide to schools and school systems to support curriculum adoption and implementation.

Adoption: Services to help educators review and purchase a new curriculum.

Launch: Initial training for teachers and school leaders after they purchase a new curriculum on how to use it to support student learning.

Ongoing for teachers: Ongoing support and coaching for teachers focused on effective use of their curriculum.

System design and leadership support: Supports school system leaders with the enabling conditions and resources required for a successful implementation of the HQIM.

What are these phases?
Our curriculum expertise
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Rivet Education evaluates this information

We are the author/publisher

Science
OpenSciEd (2017)
What is a high-quality curriculum?

Rivet defines HQIM in ELA, Math, and Science as those rated ‘Meets Expectations’ on EdReports in all grade levels for their grade band (K–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12).

If your curriculum is not listed, then it does not meet these criteria or has not been reviewed to date.

What is a high quality curriculum?
Our curriculum expertise

As a partner who exclusively supports the adoption phase of curriculum, Rivet does not evaluate their expertise in any particular high-quality instructional materials.

Certifications we've received
What does this certification mean?

EL Education has partnered with select professional learning providers through a philanthropically-funded pilot certification program designed to build knowledge around the content, structure, and intent of the EL Education K-5 Language Arts curriculum. In the final phase of the program, participants from each partner organization demonstrated expertise in facilitating curriculum-aligned professional learning in a real-world context.

Illustrative Mathematics: Professional Learning certified by Illustrative Mathematics is delivered through our IM Certified Facilitators, who undergo a rigorous qualification and training process to gain mastery in delivering impactful professional learning experiences based on the author’s intent. IM Certified Facilitators deliver learning educators need, in a variety of formats, including onsite academies and live virtual classrooms.

Open Up Resources (OUR) vets professional learning partners to guarantee OUR customers receive the highest quality professional learning. The vetting process includes a comprehensive certification process that ensures professional learning providers are OUR curricula experts with the experience necessary to provide professional learning that leads to efficacious implementation of OUR curricula.

OpenSciEd is growing a community of certified professional learning providers. OpenSciEd-Certified organizations include partners who helped to develop the materials and professional learning as well as organizations newer to OpenSciEd who have demonstrated deep understanding of the professional learning goals and pedagogy. Certified organizations collaborate and learn from each other in an online community as they work together to meet the unique needs of teachers, administrators, instructional coaches, and district leaders to revolutionize classrooms with OpenSciEd’s materials.

What does this certification mean?
OpenSciEd
Our Team
51+

facilitators/coaches

11-25%

are non-white

Where we work
We have worked here
We are also willing to work here
Types of districts that we have experience working with
Traditional District
Charter
Private
Parochial
Urban
Suburban
Rural
Fewer than 2,500 students
2,500 to 10,000 students
10,000 to 50,000 students
50,000 to 100,000 students
More than 100,000 students
Greater than 60% of economically disadvantaged students
Greater than 20% of English language learners
Greater than 20% of students with disability
Greater than 80% students of color
Why is this important?

The purpose of the Guide is to support educators in part by focusing district demand on services that are most likely to lead to the adoption and strong implementation of HQIM. By highlighting the type of clients PL providers are best designed to serve, schools and school systems can evaluate whether a particular provider would be a good fit for them.

Why is this important?
Free, high quality, NGSS-aligned science curriculum and professional learning
openscied.org

Contact us

OpenSciEd

was approved for the PLPG in

July 2023

.

The “Types of support we offer” and “Our curriculum expertise” are evaluated and approved by Rivet Education; all other information is self-reported. We recommend that you confirm details with each partner directly.

How are partners selected for the PL Partner Guide?

All of the professional learning partners featured in the Guide undergo a thorough review process by a team of expert reviewers from across the country.

Read more about our evaluation process on the PLPG Rubric.

Each applicant must demonstrate expertise in providing high-quality, curriculum-aligned support to schools and school systems.

Unless specifically indicated, Rivet Education makes no claim that a publisher authorizes, approves, sponsors, or endorses any professional learning provider.

How are partners selected for the PL Partner Guide?
Our Team
51+

facilitators/coaches

11-25%

are non-white

Where we work
We have worked here
We are also willing to work here
Who we are
In OpenSciEd classrooms, students learn science through discovery. Developed by leading science researchers and educators, our instructional model is designed to align with how students learn best. Our curriculum is phenomena-based and centers student-led questioning, investigating, and problem-solving, with teachers supporting students as learning facilitators, rather than lecturers. This approach fosters a classroom culture where everyone matters and is heard, building unique skills for educators and students, and empowering them in their education journey.
Types of support we offer
PLPG Icon Blue
plpg icon color

Rivet Education evaluates this information

Adopting an ELA curriculum
Adopting a math curriculum
Adopting a science curriculum
Initial implementation
Ongoing implementation support for teachers
Ongoing implementation support for leaders
What are these phases?

These phases refer to the distinct areas of support (adoption, launch, ongoing for teachers, ongoing for leaders) that PL partners provide to schools and school systems to support curriculum adoption and implementation.

Adoption: Services to help educators review and purchase a new curriculum.

Launch: Initial training for teachers and school leaders after they purchase a new curriculum on how to use it to support student learning.

Ongoing for teachers: Ongoing support and coaching for teachers focused on effective use of their curriculum.

System design and leadership support: Supports school system leaders with the enabling conditions and resources required for a successful implementation of the HQIM.

What are these phases?
Types of districts that we have experience working with
Traditional District
Charter
Private
Parochial
Urban
Suburban
Rural
Fewer than 2,500 students
2,500 to 10,000 students
10,000 to 50,000 students
50,000 to 100,000 students
More than 100,000 students
Greater than 60% of economically disadvantaged students
Greater than 20% of English language learners
Greater than 20% of students with disability
Greater than 80% students of color
Why is this important?

The purpose of the Guide is to support educators in part by focusing district demand on services that are most likely to lead to the adoption and strong implementation of HQIM. By highlighting the type of clients PL providers are best designed to serve, schools and school systems can evaluate whether a particular provider would be a good fit for them.

Why is this important?
Our curriculum expertise
plpg icon color
PLPG Icon Blue

Rivet Education evaluates this information

We are the author/publisher

Science
OpenSciEd (2017)
What is a high-quality curriculum?

Rivet defines HQIM in ELA, Math, and Science as those rated ‘Meets Expectations’ on EdReports in all grade levels for their grade band (K–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12).

If your curriculum is not listed, then it does not meet these criteria or has not been reviewed to date.

What is a high quality curriculum?
Our curriculum expertise

As a partner who exclusively supports the adoption phase of curriculum, Rivet does not evaluate their expertise in any particular high-quality instructional materials.

Certifications we've received
What does this certification mean?

EL Education has partnered with select professional learning providers through a philanthropically-funded pilot certification program designed to build knowledge around the content, structure, and intent of the EL Education K-5 Language Arts curriculum. In the final phase of the program, participants from each partner organization demonstrated expertise in facilitating curriculum-aligned professional learning in a real-world context.

Illustrative Mathematics: Professional Learning certified by Illustrative Mathematics is delivered through our IM Certified Facilitators, who undergo a rigorous qualification and training process to gain mastery in delivering impactful professional learning experiences based on the author’s intent. IM Certified Facilitators deliver learning educators need, in a variety of formats, including onsite academies and live virtual classrooms.

Open Up Resources (OUR) vets professional learning partners to guarantee OUR customers receive the highest quality professional learning. The vetting process includes a comprehensive certification process that ensures professional learning providers are OUR curricula experts with the experience necessary to provide professional learning that leads to efficacious implementation of OUR curricula.

OpenSciEd is growing a community of certified professional learning providers. OpenSciEd-Certified organizations include partners who helped to develop the materials and professional learning as well as organizations newer to OpenSciEd who have demonstrated deep understanding of the professional learning goals and pedagogy. Certified organizations collaborate and learn from each other in an online community as they work together to meet the unique needs of teachers, administrators, instructional coaches, and district leaders to revolutionize classrooms with OpenSciEd’s materials.

What does this certification mean?
OpenSciEd

This partner's approach and services

Sample scopes of work

Launch

Ongoing for teachers
What are these sample scopes of work?

Each provider in the PLPG provides a sample scope of work for each type of professional learning they are approved for. The scopes of work represent engagements with actual clients and are intended to give users a better understanding of how the provider engages with teachers and leaders in each type of professional learning.

What are these scopes?
How we address equity
OpenSciEd’s professional learning is designed to establish an equitable learning environment for adults that models the shifts in teaching and learning embedded in the classroom materials and prepares teachers to create these learning environments in their own classrooms. This includes a focus on equitable science sensemaking which we define as noticing, leveraging, and supporting student resources as the classroom works together to build scientific understandings about problems and phenomena. During the professional learning participants reflect and respond to the students in their classrooms to support the use of culturally and linguistically sustaining instructional practices.
Why is this important?

High-quality professional learning supports teachers in effectively engaging all students in rigorous tasks, including students with unfinished learning, students learning English, and students with special needs.

Implicit racism plays a major role in perpetuating achievement gaps in classrooms across the country. Rivet is committed to dismantling racism by connecting educators with professional learning partners who confront implicit racism through culturally responsive services that support teachers in providing high quality instruction to all students every day.

Why is this important?
How we build district capacity
OpenSciEd offers multiple entry points to deliver professional learning in-tandem with HQIM implementation. OpenSciEd offers a train-the-trainer model to prepare additional facilitators at the school, district, and organizational levels. Each professional learning course has an option of additional facilitator specific preparation. In addition to synchronous professional learning, facilitators can increase their OpenSciEd facilitation skills through asynchronous micro-credentialing courses.
Why is this important?

It is important for PL providers to have a gradual release plan with the schools and districts they work with. This response highlights how this provider builds capacity within a school system to effectively support the implementation of high-quality curriculum.

Why is this important?
How we provide curriculum-aligned PL

Workshops

Implementing instructional materials that demand a paradigm shift in instruction for teachers is a multi-year effort. Whether materials are implemented in a unit-replacement strategy, or all in one year, OpenSciEd has 14 days of professional learning to support implementation.

Coaching

PLCs

OpenSciEd utilizes a collaborative planning structure through Basecamp throughout the process of facilitating professional learning with school districts. While working with schools and teachers, OpenSciEd provides ongoing options to support teachers in areas unique to their context. These often include guided planning and reflection in a virtual synchronous format.

Consultations

LEA’s can contact OpenSciEd to co-plan professional learning support aimed at meeting their staff where they are at, with the goal of moving them forward. We provide learning experiences that accommodate your preferred learning format and systems of support for continued learning in a community of collaborative educators.
What are these approaches?

High-quality professional learning may be delivered in a variety of structures, depending on content, audience, or type of session. Rivet has defined four types of professional learning structures that enable the delivery of HQPL: workshops, coaching, collaboration/PLCs, and consultation.

What is this?
Interested in learning more about this service provider?
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Rivet Education empowers education leaders to effectively implement high-quality instructional materials and deliver exceptional daily instruction for every student. We simplify curriculum implementation with our expert consulting services, practical tools and resources, and a commitment to addressing teachers’ and leaders’ most pressing needs. By defining curriculum-based professional learning and connecting states and districts with the nation’s best professional learning providers, Rivet ensures teachers and leaders have the right support at the right time.

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