New Professional Development Offerings – Register NOW!
This two-part virtual series helps elementary teachers support student sensemaking, strengthen assessment practices, and build confidence preparing students for the KSA—while continuing to use high-quality instructional resources like OpenSciEd and Amplify Science. Participants will explore how KSA-style multiple-choice items align with the science thinking already embedded in HQIR lessons and learn practical strategies for using short checks, exit slips, and thoughtfully designed MC questions to inform instruction.
Two-Part Virtual Series
Session 1: March 12
Session 2: March 26
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Lead: Patti Works
Cost: $125.00
Audience: Teachers & Instructional Coaches
This session introduces educators to the OpenSciEd Elementary program, a high-quality, open-source science curriculum aligned to three-dimensional instruction and state standards. Participants will explore how the units build student sensemaking, critical thinking, and coherence across grade levels. Teachers will also learn about the ready-to-use resources and supports available to implement OpenSciEd effectively in elementary classrooms.
Date: March 23, 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Sullivan University, Lexington
Lead: Patti Works
Cost: $125
EILA Credit Available
Join KY PIMSER for two full-day professional learning sessions focused on high-impact strategies that support student engagement, discussion, and authentic writing across K–12 classrooms. Educators will leave with practical, classroom-ready tools to strengthen instruction and deepen student learning.
Maintaining Student Engagement
March 17 | 9:00 AM–4:00 PM (EST)
Lead: Stephanie Harmon | Audience: K–12 Teachers & Instructional Coaches
Vocabulary & Literacy Strategies
March 16 | 9:00 AM–4:00 PM (EST)
Lead: Patti Works | Audience: Grades 3–12 Teachers & Instructional Coaches
Location: KVEC, Hazard, KY
Cost: $150
Beginning Spring 2026, Kentucky’s College and Career Readiness (CCR) high school assessment will transition to the SAT, while students will continue to be assessed through the Kentucky Summative Assessment (KSA). This two-part virtual series supports high school science and math teachers in preparing students for both assessments—without sacrificing high-quality instruction.
Lead: Stephanie Harmon (PIMSER Regional Teacher Partner)
Location: Virtual
SAT/KSA Science
February 23
March 17
SAT/KSA Math
February 25
March 18
Cost: $125
Implementing a high-quality curriculum like OpenSciEd is more than simply teaching content. It is embracing an Instructional Model that reimagines what teaching and learning looks like in the science classroom.
Join PIMSER RTP Stephanie Harmon as she shares how to navigate the OSE Instructional Model and explore the 5 routines where students share an experience, investigate different questions that arise from that experience, put the pieces together from those investigations, and then problematize the next set of questions to investigate.
Presenter: PIMSER RTP Stephanie Harmon
Dates: February 26 & 27
Location: Sullivan University (Lexington)
Cost: $250
Audience: Middle and High School Science Teachers and Instructional Coaches
Professional Development Offerings – COMING FALL 2026!
Join nationally recognized author and science education leader Page Keeley for an engaging, workshop designed to help science teachers uncover and respond to student thinking in meaningful ways when using high quality instructional materials, such as the Open Sci Ed. Grounded in research and classroom experience, this workshop will focus on the power of formative assessment to make students’ ideas visible—and usable—for instruction.
Participants will explore how to use formative assessment probes and techniques to *elicit student thinking, identify common preconceptions, and promote deeper conceptual understanding in science. Through modeling and small group work teachers will build a repertoire of effective, practical formative strategies they can use with their existing instructional materials to support all learners. Teachers will leave with tools, strategies, and confidence to make thinking visible—and instruction more responsive while using instructional materials, such as OpenSciEd.
Day 1: K-5 science teachers
Day 2: 6-12 science teachers
Registration: $150
Location: TBD
Audience: K-12 science teachers, Instructional coaches, and faculty who support science teachers can attend either or both days.
Active Sessions!
Science Leadership Support Network (SLSN), led by PIMSER, helps science educators build leadership capacity, deepen content knowledge, and implement instructional shifts aligned to the KAS for Science. Participants engage in a professional learning community that explores key topics like 3D learning, assessment, and instructional practices.
Key Focus Areas:
- Three-Dimensional Assessment
- Instructional strategies for 3D learning
- Communication in science through talk and writing
- Science & Engineering Practices
Cost
$950 per participant for 26 hours of professional learning throughout the academic year 2025-26
Virtual learning sessions may be counted for professional learning hour with district approval
Includes morning refreshments and snacks each day, all training materials and 2 resource books.
Dates
Nov 19, 2025
Dec 10, 2025
Jan 28, 2026 (virtual)
Feb 25, 2026
March 18, 2026
March 25, 2026
