The K–12 Alliance is recognized as a premier professional development initiative for the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards. Our goal is to help educators expand their understanding of NGSS so each student can reach their highest potential.
How We Help
The K–12 Alliance works to customize transformative professional learning experiences in science and mathematics. With a focus on all students, we support all levels of the school system and the impacts made on classroom learning.
We develop and implement quality custom-designed science or math professional learning programs that engage elementary and secondary school teacher participants in large and small group work, hands-on activities, and laboratory experiences.
Our goal is to create professional learning communities where educators, professional learning providers, scientists, and mathematicians come together to support teaching and learning.
The programs are designed to
- increase teachers’ content knowledge
- increase teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge
- increase student academic achievement in science or mathematics
- increase student agency for students to make meaningful change in their communities
- build teacher and administrator leadership
- assist districts in long-term strategic planning for the implementation of the CA NGSS
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Service Delivery
- Online and onsite
Who Will Benefit
- K–12 science teachers and teacher leaders
- District curriculum coordinators responsible for science programs
- Science professional developers
The K–12 Alliance has inspired and challenged me, and instilled a confidence I wasn’t aware I had. I am more comfortable with not knowing and more willing to say, ‘I can try that or I can DO that.’
— Lori Holland
Teacher, San Diego Unified School District
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Jill Grace
Connecting Research With Practice
Grounded in a research-based theory of change, the K–12 Alliance has provided high-quality professional learning in science and mathematics since 1987. Today, our commitment to providing high-quality professional development is grounded in best practices validated by research.
When working with interest holders, we incorporate the use of both quantitative and qualitative tools in the context of a quasi-experimental design with a control group matched to an experimental group to help examine program effectiveness and transformation. Evaluation through feedback loops is also central to our improvement approach.
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