NextGenScience

@nextgenscience.bsky.social

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Empowering educators to transform science teaching, learning, and leadership through research-based professional learning, technical assistance, and curriculum review services. Former Achieve Science team now housed at WestEd.

A square image titled "July 2026 NGSS Now". On the lower right side there is a screenshot image of the first page of the NGSS Now newsletter (too small to read) and on the lower left are logos for the Next Generation Science Standards and the NextGenScience project at WestEd.
Quote over black and white image of students at a computer. The quote says: “AI models often reflect dominant scientific narratives and datasets, which can marginalize local knowledge, community-based science, or emerging research. Teaching students to detect AI errors also means teaching them to ask whose data and whose assumptions shape AI outputs. In this way, error detection becomes both a scientific and ethical practice that supports more inclusive and critically conscious science learning. - By Valerie Bennett, PHD, Ed.D and Christine Anne Royce, Ed.d. NSTA Blog”
Raising the Bar for Culturally Responsive Curricula: Making It a Reality in STEM Education. This session will explore the current state of culturally responsive STEM curricula and lessons learned from the field to increase the use of materials that empower all students. Breakout discussions will allow participants to explore opportunities for overcoming common challenges in implementing culturally responsive curricula. Discussion will focus on integrating instructional practices that support culturally responsive instruction across materials that embody the vision of the NRC Framework.