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SF Bay Integrated Middle School Science Project (IMSS)

The San Francisco Bay Integrated Middle School Science Project (IMSS) Targeted Math-Science Partnership is a partnership - between California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), the Alameda County Office of Education, and the Hayward, San Leandro and San Lorenzo unified school districts - that is developing and studying a comprehensive teacher professional development model designed to transform science teaching and learning in underperforming middle schools serving predominately low-income, underrepresented minority students.

Grounded in an extensive body of research and evidence based best practices, the IMSS is engaging students and teachers in authentic discovery as active members of a science professional learning community with federal research laboratory and industry scientists, disciplinary faculty and educational specialists.

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Learning Progression-based Teaching Strategies for Environmental Science Literacy

The Culturally Relevant Ecology: Learning Progressions and Environmental Literacy project works with hundreds of teachers and thousands of middle and high school students at four Long Term Ecological Research sites…


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SF Bay Integrated Middle School Science (IMSS) Partnership

This poster describes the projects progress towards defining and studying effective STEM teaching and learning at the middle school level. The San Francisco Bay Integrated Middle School Science (IMSS) Partnership…

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The School Principal as Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning

"This Wallace Foundation Perspective entitled The School Principal as Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning summarizes a decade of foundation research and work in school leadership to identify…


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Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP)

"The Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) was developed as an observation instrument to provide a standardized means for detecting the degree to which K-20 classroom instruction in mathematics...