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Strengthen science instruction with the Science Essentials Series, a hands-on professional learning experience designed to help educators build engaging, student-centered science classrooms. These workshops focus on practical strategies that support deeper thinking, meaningful discourse, modeling, explanation, and strong instructional design. Whether you attend one session or several, you will leave with ideas and tools you can apply right away.

Each session builds on the either to support effective science teaching and learning while giving participants time to explore strategies they can take back to the classroom.

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May 27, 2026 - Science Essentials Part 1: Big Ideas, Big Impact

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Location: Birch Room

Designing learning that sticks—from launch to explanation. Come explore how to put the big science ideas at the center of your instruction. Learn to select anchoring phenomena, craft essential questions, develop exemplars, and sequence learning to keep students focused and engaged. Walk away with a ready-to-use storyline for the 26–27 school year.

Register for Workshop #394752

June 1, 2026 - Science Essentials Part 2: Talk Nerdy to Me

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Location: Pine Room

Designing learning that sticks—from launch to explanation. Students talk all the time—let’s make it meaningful. Learn how to teach productive discourse, structure student conversations, ask questions that spark higher-order thinking, and set classroom norms and scaffolds that support talk as a tool for learning.

Register for Workshop #398001

June 16, 2026 - Science Essentials Part 3: Show What You Know

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Location: Sycamore Room

Designing learning that sticks—from launch to explanation. Join us as we learn how to integrate modeling into the science classroom. We’ll explore what models are, how to guide students in using them to unlock prior knowledge, refine their ideas, and track their understanding across a unit. Modeling puts learning—and progress—squarely in students’ hands.

Register for Workshop #398003

June 17, 2026 - Science Essentials Part 1: Big Ideas, Big Impact

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Location: Sycamore Room

Designing learning that sticks—from launch to explanation. Come explore how to put the big science ideas at the center of your instruction. Learn to select anchoring phenomena, craft essential questions, develop exemplars, and sequence learning to keep students focused and engaged. Walk away with a ready-to-use storyline for the 26–27 school year.

Register for Workshop #398005

June 18, 2026 - Science Essentials Part 4: Argue Like a Scientist

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Location: Sycamore Room

Designing learning that sticks—from launch to explanation. Learn how to guide students in making and justifying claims with evidence. Experience a mini-storyline from start to finish and practice strategies that help students build explanations, support arguments, and connect ideas—all while engaging deeply with science concepts.

Register for Workshop #398004

Questions? Contact a member of our team!