Ngsx.org Website Review

Welcome to the Next Generation Science Exemplar System for Professional Development, or NGSX. NGSX is a web-based PD environment designed to engage teachers in working with the practices and disciplinary core ideas in the National Research Council's Framework Connecting a Cyber-Enabled Learning Environment with Study Groups Learning How to Adapt Curriculum to Cultivate 3-Dimensional Learning in Students The Next Generation Science Exemplar (or NGSX) professional learning system is a unique learning environment designed to connect learners to a multi-faceted web-platform — with a wide range of digital (video and print) resources, guided activities, and interactivity with colleagues.  NGSX provides a unique, image-rich context for combinations of K-12 teachers, administrators, science coaches, and higher education pre-service faculty.  Together, in face-to-face study groups, NGSX participants explore the major ideas found in the their clas*rooms. NGSX also serves as a research site to collect data on 3-dimensional learning and the enactment of that learning in clas*rooms.  Finally, NGSX has developed a learning pathway for facilitators.  This pathway is designed to support teacher leaders, instructional coaches, and PD providers who want to become NGSX study group facilitators in their district or state.  A focus on preparing facilitators to lead NGSX study groups in districts and states throughout the United States is proving to be a much needed model of peer-leadership in PD to bring the Framework and NGSS to scale. Clark University, Tidemark Institute, Northwestern University