New Professional Development Offerings – Register NOW!
Our KAS high school assessment will begin using the SAT. Are your students ready? Join us for this 2 – 90-minute virtual sessions. Leave with strategies and materials ready to use in your classroom to make your student assessment ready.
Lead: Stephanie Harmon
Location: Virtual
SAT Science – January 22 & February 5 4:30pm – 6:00pm
SAT Math – January 21 & February 4 4:30pm – 6:00pm
As our K-12 pre-service and in-service teachers are enhancing their practices to meet the intent of the Kentucky Academic Standards in Science, we need to inform ourselves about how to best support those teachers. While all who support K-12 science educators are welcome, our goal for the Summit is to have representation from each higher education institution across Kentucky as we incorporate interactive features for networking and learning from each other.
- Event Features:
- Engage and explore 3 high interest topics
- Access to open education resources for supporting high-quality science teaching and learning
- KDE science consultant Erica Baker and Amanda Prewitt will share state science initiatives and implications for professional learning and development of new science teachers.
- Networking opportunities – including time for open discussion and questions
Professional Development Offerings – COMING SOON!
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.
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
Registration Fee: $250
Audience: Middle and High School Science Teachers and Instructional Coaches
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
