Science curriculum consultant for WayneRESA, @MSTAMich President, Keep Teaching Science (he/him/his)
Ann Arbor
Joined August 2010
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Happy Monday science teachers. I think I'm going to write this into my work plan and maybe cross-stitch a wall hanging for my office. Source: NRC Framework and the folks at stemteachingtools.org/pd/ses…
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Taking the classroom outdoors in different seasons shifts the conversation of things you notice and wonder. @richbacolor @WayneRESA #OutdoorClassroom #KidsInNature
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Celebrating our colleagues, Allen Park Public Schools' Dr. John Tafelski and our Science Consultant @richbacolor, at the National Science Teaching Association Leadership Institute in Kansas City, sharing expertise on Multiple Tiers of Support for Implementing 3D Science Standards
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Join us for Curiosity Camp: A STEM Resource Fair and networking event for parents, STEM educators, and all-around curious people 🔬🔢🧮 Register for this Oct. 24 opportunity, noon to 6 p.m. at the WCCCD Ted Scott Campus: bit.ly/3RlJuLX
ALT Join us for Curiosity Camp: A STEM Resource Fair and Networking Event for parents, STEM Educators, and curious people.
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Research shows science & social studies are necessary disciplines to build knowledge & engage students in reading/writing/speaking/listening in authentic ways. Join @richbacolor & @HRottermond for this engaging session on August 22 at 3:00pm. reg.learningstream.com/reg/e… @WayneRESA
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Bird-watcher Christian Cooper is now the host of the new @NatGeo Wild series, Extraordinary Birder! 🦜 He wants Black people to know more about different bird species, and he sat with EBONY to discuss why. Read the full interview on EBONY. #EBONYmag
ebony.com/chris-cooper-nat-g…
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For #BlackBirdersWeek, @BlackAFinSTEM and Bird Note have teamed up to co-produce a week of shows focusing on the stories of Black birders. Tune in and listen to them all: bit.ly/43x4jah
ALT Image with a tan background with the Black Birders Week logo at the top, next to the BirdNote logo, and "Takeover 2023" underneath. An illustration of a Red-winged Blackbird in flight is in the top right. The graphic features the creators, titles, and dates of this week's series of BirdNote Daily stories. Sunday's is "The Red-winged Blackbird" by Deja Perkins; Monday's is "The Robin Rescue" by Adé Ben-Salahuddin; Tuesday's is "Harriet Tubman's Barred Owl Signals" by Tasha Lawson; Wednesday's is "Being a Black Field Biologist" by Lauren Pharr; Thursday's is "Binoculars 101" by Dara M. Wilson; Friday's is "Birding with Students in Chicago" by Lillian Holden; and Saturday's is "How the Woodcock's Journey Connects Us All" by Marcus Rosten.
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Lots to notice and wonder as @richbacolor engages educators in place based learning. #KidsInNature @WayneRESA #WRESA
Just a few pages into @create4stem @MSUCollegeofEd David Stoupe’s new book. Has me thinking about how to support classroom science communities > “delivery pedagogy”. Looking ahead to Chapter 2 about pernicious myths that limit opportunities. #knowledgebuilding @MSTAMich
Make time. Kids deserve this. “10. Safeguard Science and Social Studies: Even the most content-rich English language arts curriculum cannot substitute for strong science and social studies instruction—and such instruction can help build literacy skills.”
ascd.org/blogs/looking-to-re… – at Ann Arbor, MI
We are coming up on “testing season” again. Here’s an important reminder. – at Ann Arbor, MI
This weekend I sorted through some papers my mom saved from my childhood. The top one is my 4th grade self evaluation. The bottom, my 4th grade state test score. Random House published my 6th book last week. #MoreThanATest
.@WayneRESAELA #literacyessentials #thematictextsets #readaloud #science #socialstudies #knowledgematters – at Ann Arbor, MI
Teachers! Librarians!
Sibert Book Club Shines a Light on Nonfiction by @JessicaFGWrites
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#nonfiction #KidsLoveNonfiction @wearealsc @ALALibrary #WritingCommunity #amreading
Chapter 2 of A People’s Curriculum for the Earth by @douglarkin01 is timely reading as we head into spring and “testing season”. #getkidsoutside @Maeoe_MI – at Ann Arbor, MI
Anyone know what these are? New style bat box? Along the trails at Hewen’s Drain Park in Ypsi. – at Ypsilanti, MI
Happy Spring! On the eve of #springequinox we didn’t hear Spring Peepers yet. But we did spy a super cute Brown Creeper scuttle up the trees probing the bark. Pic quality not great but can you peep the creeper? (Video answer next tweet) – at Whitmore Lake, MI
I love how they just zip along and then disappear for a second blending in with the bark. #springequinox #happyspring #getoutside – at White Lake, MI
Dr. Denise Burchsted: “We have this perception that is really at the root of a lot of our environmental problems - that nature is a place where there are no humans, and that is false for starters.” 1/2 #mra2023 #misciencereads #msta2023 @WayneRESAELA
“Secondly, it is actually racist, since it erases the presence of Indigenous people who stewarded that land for literally millennia.” 2/2 #mra2023 #msta2023 #misciencereads @WayneRESAELA
