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Success at the Core?


School-based teams are adding comments to the Success at the Core blog to share the various ways they are applying the website’s resources to their work.
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Teams

School-based teams are composed of teachers and principals working collaboratively to support sustainable improvements in science instruction and to make the professional approach of the Academy to become part of the school's culture.

School-based teams (such as the Pennfield Middle School Team from North Penn, pictured above) meet throughout the year, primarily to become a community of learners focused on increasing their understanding of effective science instruction.
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Have A Question?

Do you have a question for the Academy Leaders or Faculty? Do you want to make a suggestion?
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Leadership

The Academy for Leadership Science Instruction is a three year professional development program designed to build highly effective communities of professionals who reflect upon their own understanding of student learning in science and collaborate to improve science teaching with colleagues in their school, their district, and throughout the Academy.
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Work in Progress

  • Getting Started
    Posted to: Beak of the Finch
    At the March 25 meeting of Cohort 1, I introduced Jonathan Weiner's Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Beak of the Finch and invited everyone to sign up for a book club to receive the book and read it prior to the summer meeting. The Academy...(Read More)
  • Growing in Leadership
    Posted to: Growing in Leadership
    Leaders Demonstrate Passion Based on work by Sandra Larson, former executive director of MAP for Nonprofits, Minneapolis (MAP stands for Management Assistance Program) Frequently we can identify leaders by their passion for a cause, a...(Read More)
  • Posting suggestions for using Success at the Core
    Posted to: Using Success at the Core
    Academy Cohort 1 and 2 School-based Teams — How are you and your Academy Colleagues using Success at the Core ? Add a comment below to share some of your stories for how you've used this extraordinary resource to expand your community of...(Read More)

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What Are We Learning

Teams and individuals are developing new understandings and descriptions of science instruction. Academy participants use these understandings to build a knowledgebase incorporating what is being learned and discovered. This knowledgebase is a comprehensive written compendum of the knowledge they value and can describe. It is built from files with one file on each subject covered. The files on the various subjects and the entire knowledgebase are searchable. Academy participants should work with the knowledgebase using the guidelines established for Wikipeda contributors.
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