Saturday, June 8, 2013

FL reviewing the NGSS and YOU can help!

Hey Floridians!

The DoE has fairly quietly initiated a statewide public review of the Next Generation Science Standards. The period will last until the end of this month. The first thing we are asking each and every one of you to do is take some time to go to the review site and participate.

I've followed the development of the standards and they are good standards. These standards support all the things you expect science to support while provide excellent cross-cutting concepts to undercut the "I'll never use this" mentality.

If you're a Floridian, parent or not, teacher or not, this effects you. How and what students learn now effects YOUR future. So please, take a minute to either A: Peruse the standards and voice your opinion, or B: Yes, I'm ok with you taking my very responsible word in vouching for them, and selecting any grade level (I choose HS, of course) and clicking "Accept" under each of the subheadings, and "Approve" at the bottom.

If YOU don't take an interest in children's education, someone else will. 
Thank you.

The site to do so is: http://www.cpalms.org/standards/NGSS_Public_Opinion_Survey.aspx

If you'd like to become more familiar with the NGSS, you can check out their website: http://www.nextgenscience.org/.

You can also get a great overview of their purpose from this 6 minute video from BozemanBiology, a science teacher that posts student-friendly lectures on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9SrSBGDNfU


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