Leadership Skills Development Strand

• Teachers share responsibility, i.e., teacher-as -project director; teacher-designed program elements
• Leadership Cohort of teachers to develop and implement programs
• Leadership Toolbox to provide basic business-related communication, planning and organizational skills
• Present at local, state and national conventions as a group, collaborate with education scholars to design presentations
• Teachers encouraged to advance their education (Masters Degree, National Teacher Certification), and to pursue professional recognition and professional opportunities within their District(s)

Teacher developed comprehensive plan for cluster-wide articulation around a specific science focus

Emphasis on state and national standards to establish sequential and articulated curriculum framework

Planning by grade-level, school group, and by K-12 to ensure organized progression for students

Involvement of teachers from disciplines other than science as a way to enhance their scientific content knowledge and tie-in other disciplines

Develop leadership within Cluster to sustain program

• Problem-Based Learning (PBL) for teacher professional development provides adult level content through inquiry process with embedded outcomes
• Strong emphasis on critical thinking skills
• Methodology encourages resourcefulness
• Tie-in existing curriculum, standards, and current educational focus
• Cross-disciplinary

• Use of existing instructional materials to support science curriculum
• An on-going program of professional development workshops for cluster teachers
• Tie-in of hands-on materials with inquiry pedagogy to support science instruction

• Partnership with school district through the Los Angeles Systemic Initiative (LA-SI)
• University partnerships and sharing of resources for science
• Partnerships and collaboration with informal science venues in innovative ways
• Participation of university scientists and faculty in content delivery
• Partnerships with business and the community to support science instruction

• Data collection
• Evaluation instrument development
• Practical application of educational theory
• Included as members of leadership cohort
• Opportunities for teachers to present at educational conferences with IHE faculty

• Guidance and ideas on how to take adult level content experience back to students in age-appropriate ways
• On-going sharing of what works and what doesn't among teachers
• Opportunity to work and plan with peers at all grade levels
• Sharing of student work and assessment ideas
• Publishing of articles related to educational research data collected from projects
• Teacher participation in educational initiatives and groups at state and national level meetings

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