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7 Enabling Actions
Pages 44-49

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... Aligning to Standards The Breakout Group 1 speakers were Brett Moulding of the Utah Partnership for Effective Science ­ eaching T and Learning and Heidi Hammel of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. The group's guiding questions were the following: • What actions can NASA take to build upon, leverage, and/or expand its current efforts to align to and support the new vision described in the National Research Council's A Framework for K-12 Science Education 1 (generally referred to as "the Framework")
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... Hammel also noted that Holly Ryer of the Space Science Telescope Institute discussed how the NGSS focuses on real-world activity; and Sam Shaw of the South Dakota Department of Education used South Dakota as an example of a state that will use the Framework to develop its own standards. Curriculum Support Resources The Breakout Group 2 speaker was Richard McCray of the University of California, Berkeley.
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... A workshop participant mentioned that massive open online courses can be an effective tool in teacher preparation for the use of new material. An audience member commented that his group recently finished a project in partnership with a publisher to develop cosmology curriculum for freshmen-level and college non-majors, and he believes that this information will reach a lot of people.
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... SOURCE: 1995 image courtesy of NASA, ESA, STScI, and Paul Scowen and Jeffrey Hester of Arizona State University; 2014 image courtesy of NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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... On the issue of new opportunities and new challenges, Byers stated that one of the big challenges the group identified was scientific literacy for underserved populations and adults. He explained that the group discussed interagency collaboration, which ties into the CoSTEM (Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education)
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... The group also discussed bringing in representatives from projects and programs to report results to policy makers and administration. Schwerin explained the significance of finding a way to let the people doing the projects tell their story.
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