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California Regional Environmental Education Community

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Next Generation Science Standards posted for three week public comment period

Available from Friday May 11 (noon PST) through June 1, 2012

The first public draft of the Next Generation Science Standards will be released this Friday, May 11, 2012 at 12:00 P.S.T.  We are encouraging you to review the standards and provide feedback to Achieve.  During the three-week public comment period, the standards and the survey will be publicly available at www.nextgenscience.org.  The standards and survey will be available until June 1, 2012. 

The web version of the standards will be sortable by Grade Level/Span, Content Area, Science and Engineering Practices, Disciplinary Core Ideas, and Crosscutting Concepts.  We also encourage you to review Part 1 of A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Idea.  By reviewing this section, reviewers will have a better understanding of the Framework as a basis for the NGSS.

The California Department of Education has established a Listserv to provide updates to the general population, and encourage you to sign up if you haven’t already done so.  You may join the NGSS electronic mailing list by sending a blank e-mail to join-ngss@mlist.cde.ca.gov.  Please share this with any interested parties who wish to receive updates on the NGSS.

At the May 9th State Board of Education meeting, Stephen Pruitt from Achieve  conducted a presentation describing the history, process, and timeline for development of the NGSS.  His presentation will be available on the CDE’s NGSS web page at http://www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ca/sc/ngssintrod.asp.


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Enhance your EEI units with the California State Parks

 http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=26907

This matrix was designed to help teachers using the EEI curriculum find relevant State Parks programs that extend learning.  We are also encouraging our park interpreters to use it in reverse, by highlighting great EEI units for teachers who are already bringing their students to park programs.

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Update:  Education and the Environment Initiative

The State Board of Education approved all 85 EEI units.   The current versions of the EEI units are available at http://www.californiaeei.org

Planning and fund raising efforts for teacher professional development are underway.  Stay tuned! 

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NAAEE Environmental Literacy Plan Survey Results

NAAEE staff conducted a nationwide survey on the status of environmental literacy plan development in all the states.  Read the results of the Environmental Literacy Plan Survey and see the interest across the nation.  Four states have already passed legislation to support plan development.

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