Partner Profile
OpenSciEd
Free, high quality, NGSS-aligned science curriculum and professional learning
OpenSciEd was approved for the PLPG in February 2021.
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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
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- Adopting an ELA curriculum
- Adopting a math curriculum
- Adopting a science curriculum
- Initial implementation
- Ongoing implementation support for teachers
- Collaborative Planning
- Ongoing implementation support for leaders
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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
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OUR CURRICULUM EXPERTISE
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We are the author/publisher
Science
- OpenSciEd (2017)
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Certifications we've received
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This partner's approach and services
Sample scopes of work
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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.
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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.
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