The It’s Time for Science Podcast is again in 2025, celebrating FOSS being awarded a design assessment badge by Johns Hopkins College! Host Tom Racine talks with Dr. Steven Ross and Dr. Alan Reid from Johns Hopkins, after which chats with FOSS director Linda De Lucchi.
Steven M. Ross, PhD is a professor and Government Director on the Heart for Analysis and Reform in Training at Johns Hopkins College. Dr. Ross is the creator of six textbooks and over 140 journal articles within the areas of academic know-how, at-risk learners, academic reform, prolonged studying time packages, and analysis and analysis. He’s a famous lecturer on college packages and academic analysis, Editor Emeritus of the analysis part of the Academic Know-how Analysis and Improvement journal, and a member of the editorial board for 4 different skilled journals. He was the primary college recipient of The College of Memphis Eminent College Award for educating, analysis and repair, and held the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in City Training and a Faudree Professorship at The College of Memphis. In 2019, he was awarded the distinguished Michael Spector Profession Achievement Award from the Affiliation of Academic Communications and Know-how. He has testified on college restructuring analysis earlier than the U.S. Home of Representatives Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Households, has been a advisor to the Nationwide Science Basis on challenge analysis design, and is a technical advisor and researcher on present nationwide initiatives concerning the analysis of out-of-school studying, STEM instruction, know-how integration, and social-emotional studying.
Alan J. Reid, PhD is an assistant analysis scientist on the Heart for Analysis and Reform in Training at Johns Hopkins College. He focuses on mixed-methods analysis analysis within the fields of tutorial design, STEM, and academic know-how. He has printed a number of books, journal articles, and e-book chapters that discover the intersectionality between know-how, human habits, and studying. Dr. Reid continues to show graduate programs in analysis writing, tutorial design, and academic analysis at numerous establishments. Study extra about Dr. Reid right here: https://alanjreid.my.canva.website/
Tom and Drs. Ross and Reid talk about FOSS Pathways being awarded the Tutorial Design Assessment FOSS Pathways (PK-5) Tier 4 ESSA badge. They talk about the significance of curriculum design and analysis; how the Heart for Analysis and Reform in Training at Johns Hopkins works to assist the publishing business to guage their very own curricula and the significance of stated curricula being scientifically based mostly and in a position to be refined over time. They talk about what’s concerned within the design assessment course of, what the tiers of proof of ESSA imply; and the way ESSA tier 4 is an efficient foundational foundation for a curriculum. They talk about the badge as a sort of accreditation for college districts, permitting faculties to have the ability to validate a program; what made FOSS Pathways stand out; particular parts and rubrics from the analysis course of; and the challenges academics and directors face in having to repeatedly modify to coverage modifications. They shut with speaking concerning the worth of some of these critiques, not only for academics and directors, however for college students; the badge lets customers know {that a} product has been vetted by an skilled third social gathering (a validation that sure parts exist throughout the product awarded a badge).
Linda De Lucchi is co-founder and director of the Full Possibility Science System Venture (FOSS Ok–8). She has developed tutorial supplies in Ok–8 science schooling (FOSS), environmental schooling (OBIS), well being schooling (HAP Venture), and particular schooling (SAVI/SELPH) for 50 years on the Lawrence Corridor of Science. Along with curriculum growth, Ms. De Lucchi has directed quite a few instructor preparation tasks and has supplied many tens of 1000’s of hours of science schooling in service on the website stage, district stage, and nationwide management stage all through the nation and overseas (in Israel, Slovakia, The Czech Republic, Japan, and China). She served because the co-director of the Nationwide Science Basis-funded Assessing Science Information Venture (ASK), as Chair of the Educational Planning Committee for the Lawrence Corridor of Science, and was on the Board of Administrators of the Heart for Accessible Know-how in Berkeley.
Tom and Ms. De Lucchi discuss concerning the historical past of FOSS, going again to its beginnings a few years in the past on the Lawrence Corridor of Science; its foundations in working with college students with visible impairments; the invention that every time a device for college students with disabilities labored, it ended up being a great device for all college students; the FOSS purpose of serving to all college students study collectively collaboratively; the unique funding for the FOSS Program from the NSF; and dealing with native college districts. They go in depth discussing the logic mannequin referenced by the researchers from Johns Hopkins within the earlier interview; serving to college students and academics develop methods (from supplies distribution to altering classroom tradition, evaluation instruments, and a considerate plan for skilled studying); what the FOSS Staff hopes that using FOSS will produce (from short-term to long-term objectives for each college students AND academics); how the event of varied editions of FOSS have lead as much as the present Pathways version; why academics can really feel assured that the supplies will work; science as a superb technique of creating language with English learners; working with academics on creating methods for sense-making discussions (college students and the category making sense out of information); phenomena in FOSS since its inception; what Ms. De Lucchi want to see sooner or later for elementary science schooling; and shut discussing the ESSA tiers that the researchers from Johns Hopkins have a look at in assessing a program.
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