Professional Learning
Planned PL in 2023-2024:
It is time to gather a GUHSD Chemistry teacher committee to evaluate, pilot, and adopt a Chemistry curriculum for college prep and honors courses. If you are representing your school site, register here.
Day 1: Sep 19th, 2023
Day 2: Nov 1st, 2023
Days 3 & 4: TBD
Physics District Team
This team of GUHSD Physics teachers will meet regularly to collaborate, share resources, and discuss ways to improve instruction. There will be two pullout days and monthly after school meetings during the school year. Register here for the first pullout on Sep 5th, 2023 and other dates.
Earth & Space Science
We'll be kicking off the school year with a Climate Champions Design Summit from the San Diego Science Project, on Sep 12-13, 2023. See the details here. We hope to continue the district-wide teacher collaboration with pullout days later in the school year, as well.
Biology and Physiology
Physiology Collab. Day, Nov 6
Biology Storylines Collab. Day, tentatively Dec 1
Positive Prevention Plus (Biology)
Heads up Biology teachers, we have purchased new curriculum binders (2021 edition) for the Positive Prevention Plus unit. These have all been distributed to department chairs at school sites. We will also be holding training for PPP and the California Healthy Youth Act.
CASE Conference 2023
October 20-22, Palm Springs
Customize an on-site department pullout day or collaboration workshop! Click below to see some ideas:
Past Workshops:
Any workshops can be repeated or customized for departments by request
Science & Engineering Practices: Rubrics in Action
Science & Engineering Practices: Student Work Calibration
Student Discourse in Science Classes
Leveling Up Your Science Tasks: Rigor and Cognitive Demand
Student-Led Investigations in Science
NGSS Assessment Task Creation
Crosscutting Concepts for Equity and Rigor
Introducing InquiryHub: Storyline units for Biology and Chemistry
NGSS Storylines: Planning for units based on anchoring phenomena
Going Deeper with Claim-Evidence-Reasoning
NGSS Video Lesson Study
Engineering for Science Teachers