K-5 Teachers! You're invited to join an OSPI statewide cadre of elementary educators developing expertise on integrating content across science, ELA, and math.
As a member of this cadre, you'll learn about and explore research-based tools, resources, and instructional practices that support effective content integration.
This professional learning program will help you strengthen student learning by anchoring reading, writing, speaking, listening, and math in engaging science contexts in ways that meet learning goals and standards for all subjects.
We will also learn how integrated learning allows you to address and support student engagement, Social-Emotional Learning, student equity and inclusion, and maximizing use of instructional minutes for multiple content standards.
The cadre will learn from multiple national integration experts presenting on:
- integrating science and language development
- supporting multilingual learners through intentional integration
- integrating science and math
- PBL (problem or project-based learning) as an integration model
- best practices in elementary science learning (NGSS)
You will be supported to apply this learning to your own classroom, with regular opportunities to collaborate and share with fellow cadre members at your grade level. We will also explore ways you might help grow this work at your school, district, or even at the state level.
This program is designed to support you to integrate using whatever instructional materials you have available. The cadre will also be introduced to freely available, high-quality, OER (Open Education Resource) materials for each grade level.
University of California, Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science will facilitate this cadre in partnership with OSPI.
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Teacher Cadre Free Clock Hours and PGPs
This virtual professional learning series will provide cadre members with 25 free synchronous clock hours (including STEM and equity) with the option to earn additional free asynchronous clock hours on your own.
If desired, this project alternately offers participants the opportunity to complete up to two Professional Growth Plans (PGPs) (one per school year) with initial support from PESB for educators new to PGPs. (each completed PGP provides 25 free clock hours)
Teacher Cadre Timeline
This cadre is expected to launch in late January or February of 2022 and continue through May of 2023 (about 16 months).
The project orientation will occur on a Saturday followed by interactive virtual sessions one Thursday a month from 4:00-6:00 pm. (no meetings in early April, June or July).
Asynchronous application opportunities will be provided between virtual sessions.
Who is Eligible for the Teacher Cadre?
We have openings for up to 150 elementary teachers in this cadre.
To apply, you must be actively teaching in a public or private school in Washington State or actively working as an elementary coach in a public or private school in the state.
Eligible candidates for the cadre are those willing to participate fully and who are actively serving as:
- Elementary Classroom Teachers in grades K-5
- Elementary Coaches or TOSAS (a parallel Leader Cadre will be offered for coaches who are more interested in delving deeper into educational leadership aspects of implementing integrated learning).
Past or current Washington State Fellows in Science, ELA, Math, and Early Learning are encouraged to apply.
To Apply for the Cadre
Applicants will be notified in late December or early January.
A parallel LEADER CADRE on elementary integrated learning will also be offered, so please encourage principals and other district leaders in your sphere to apply to support teacher/leader collaboration on integration. A bulletin for the Leader Cadre will be circulated separately.
For more information, please contact Kimberley Astle, Associate Director of Elementary Science at OSPI at kimberley.astle@k12.wa.us
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