Strategies for Teaching STEELS: Open Sci Ed Institute

Instructor(s): Peney E. Wright

Free to all TIU 11 regional participants

Description of Activity: In support of the STEELS Standards full implementation next year, OpenSciEd offers essential teaching routines, protocols and strategies to meet qualitative, rigorous, high level instruction and learning for all students. Although you do not have to use the free OpenSciEd curriculum, exemplar units are available for middle school and high school. Elementary units have begun to be released, one per grade level K-5. More to come through 2026.

School districts across PA and the nation are using OpenSciEd to support their science programs. EdReports states that OpenSciEd middle school (the initial series developed) “meets expectations for Alignment and Usability. In Gateway 1, the materials meet expectations for Three-Dimensional Learning and Phenomena and Problems Drive Learning. In Gateway 2, the materials meet expectations for Coherence and Full Scope of the Three Dimensions. In Gateway 3, the materials meet expectations for Usability.” 2023

Goals: Creating classrooms with inspired educators & motivated learners.

OpenSciEd empowers educators to go beyond traditional science teaching methods by bringing together leading science researchers and educators to craft curriculum that is aligned to how students learn best.

“My students have begun to realize they have the power and the knowledge to plan and investigate how the world works around them.”  7th Grade Teacher

Prerequisites: STEELS Experience K-12, an introduction to STEELS, or ENGINE 3D STEELS Educator Community of Practice

Highly recommended: Read A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas (2012), free download

Check ins and support to follow throughout the school year. 

Free to all TIU 11 regional participants

Non-TIU 11 regional participants: $450.00 for all 3 days