The San Francisco Bay Integrated Middle School Science (IMSS) Partnership is a 5-year Targeted MSP in its third year of implementing and studying a comprehensive teacher professional development (PD) model. Designed to transform middle school science teaching and learning, IMSS focuses on schools that serve predominately low-income, underrepresented minority students. Our partners include California State University East Bay, 4 county offices of education (Alameda COE is the lead COE), California Science Project, and museums and informal science organizations (e.g., the San Francisco Exploratorium). Click here to Download the NSF Research Poster.
What are our proposed goals?
IMSS Goal 1
Increase quality, quantity, diversity of middle school science teachers and students engaged in transformational science teaching and learning,
IMSS Goal 2
Create online middle school science professional development and instructional cases (IC) anchored in inquiry-based science (NGSS) that is aligned with standards and the newly adopted K-8 California Foundational Level General Science (FLGS) Credential.
IMSS Goal 3
Develop a distributed leadership model, leadership capacity and partnership infrastructure to support systemic change and policies necessary to sustain and scale the project.
How do we measure progress?
Who are our constituents?