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Join us with experts from the District, County, Master Gardeners and more to learn how to make the most of your school garden. Gardeners of all levels are welcome! Subs are paid by SDCOE Environmental Literacy

Please submit your name using this form and each month we will draw names. The winners will be contacted by a member of our team who will arrange a time to come cover your class so that you can plan, observe a colleague or engage in a bit of professional self care.

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Family Friendly Event:

On March 18, join us for the SDUSD Youth and Social POW WOW brought to you by the Title VI and Johnson O’Malley Indian Education Program. The Pow Wow runs from 10:00AM - 8:00PM at the Ballard Parent Center in Old Town (2375 Congress St. San Diego, 92120) and ALL are welcome.

ATTENTION TEACHERS:

There is a special professional development experience offered to district teachers from 10:00AM - 1:00PM at the POW WOW. Find more information and register here. Compensation Available!

Take your teaching about climate and energy to the next level with the CLEAN Webinar Series. Check out our schedule of upcoming webinars and our archive of recorded webinars below. All CLEAN webinars are virtual and use the online Zoom platform with screen share and integrated audio.

For questions, more information, or to request a webinar for your school district, please contact us at clean AT colorado.edu.

Teacher Workshops in Conservation Science is a free, three-day, grant-funded professional development opportunity for middle and high school science educators, based at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, California, with all room and board included. Participants spend their days in intensive study in the Conservation Education Lab and their evenings at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, engaging with staff members and acquiring invaluable new skills to take back to their home campuses. During the workshop, teachers work together to frame content standards in the context of wildlife conservation and explore ways to challenge students to apply textbook knowledge of life science to current biodiversity challenges. Participants engage in activities that focus on critical issues facing endangered species using a variety of advanced technical tools and techniques; all activities support the Next Generation Science Standards and can be implemented back in the classroom. Grant funding allows this residential program to include all meals, lodging, and materials for free, as well as a $500 stipend to help offset any travel or child care expenses, paid upon full completion of the program. The application for the summer 2023 Teacher Workshops in Conservation Science is open through April 9

NSTA offers short, self-paced, online courses that educators may utilize to enhance their profession, deepen students' learning, and encourage equitable participation in the classroom. Complete each course to earn an NSTA professional learning unit certificate, which can be applied towards credit hours of professional learning, anytime it is convenient for you, regardless of your schedule or location. Some NSTA professional learning units are free for NSTA members and some are free for all educators. Check out What is Sensemaking? for free.

You asked, we listened.
The next Pitch event will be noon March 9!

The Pitch events build connections between researchers and grant writers at the national level with STEM Ecosystem Leaders from across the globe. We saw first-hand that many connections were made between researchers and practitioners at our first and second Pitch events.

Ecosystem leaders who have been working on interesting interventions and STEM programs are sometimes uncertain about how to scale their work via successful national grant funding applications. The Pitch gives Ecosystem leaders the opportunity to meet with each other, national grant program directors and grant writing organizations to form partnerships through pitching their ideas for STEM programming that is impactful and ready for research and scale. These collaborations will yield viable pitches for national scale grants through authentic research-practice partnerships. The partnerships will be uniquely empowered by the early-stage collaboration between practitioners and researchers to optimize impact of the grant funded initiatives.

Join the LC2, TIES and the amazing group of pitchers March 9 from noon - 1 p.m. EST!

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Counseling and Guidance through the SDUSD TUPE Office is looking for some science teachers who are interested in writing a unit that addresses the dangers of vaping and smoking tobacco, nicotine and cannabis products. The units should align with current NGSS and would be able to be added to the GVCs for Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Beyond the writing of the curriculum, we are looking at ideas on how to roll out the curriculum (in-person trainings). The non-classroom hourly rate would be used and the amount of hours would be agreed upon prior to the curriculum writing. All interested, please reach out to Patrick Chen @ pchen@sandi.net

For the spring semester of 2022-2023 TeachKind Science – part of PETA’s humane education division is offering pilot program to teach life science standards using dissection alternatives.

Teachers who participate in the pilot program will receive either a free class set of SynFrogs or other modern non-animal dissection resources such as digital interactive software. At the completion of the pilot program this semester, teachers will receive an appreciation gift and a Certificate of Appreciation for helping to save animals.

Interested teachers can call (850.766.1403) or email (sallys@peta.org.)

Join us for a free lecture series presented by MSTI to help teachers in the community--like you!

Each lecture will focus on a specific teacher related topic, formatted to help you succeed in your career and connect you with other professionals. Snacks will be provided, as well as a space to build community and share resources.

Hybrid Lectures held on Mondays

5-6 PM at CRMSE and virtually on zoom:

6475 Alvarado Road, Suite 128

San Diego, CA. 92120-5013

Free and Plentiful Parking

Future Topics may Include:

Feeling Supported and Understood as a Teacher, Post Covid, Feeling Burnt Out? We’ve Got You Covered, Teachers, Your Mental Health Matters Too!, How To Find the Support You Need When Admin Doesn't Get It, School Climate, Why it Matters, ASTEP Toolkit - Focusing on Phenomena, Teaching with External Stressors, Aquaponics Creation, Math and Science Supply Exchange

A SDUSD Family is interested in donating a healthy two year old bearded dragon with its 4’x2’x2’ vivarium. Please verify with your principal if you think this might be a good fit for your classroom and contact Pablo: ppmartin@sdccd.edu if you are interested.

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Did you find a great curriculum resource? Participated in a great research opportunity? Do you enjoy reading one of the books we offered teachers? Had a great PLC or PD meeting that you want to recommend for other teachers?

We want to hear your recommendations and share them with other science teachers!

If you have a favorite curriculum, reading, activity, or PLC plan that you want to recommend to other teachers we want to capture a short (1-3 minutes) video of you describing it and share it with other unified science teachers!

Email tlerner@sandi.net and one of us will come to visit you and record a short clip !

A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help with his luggage.

He says, “No, I’m traveling light.”

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