February 9, 2018
In January, a team of Tully Elementary School (TES) teachers completed Year Two of the 100K in 10 Grant, awarded to the Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC) in partnership with New York State OCM Board of Cooperative Educational Services (OCM BOCES). Of the seventy (70) teachers chosen, the team from TES included Rachel Kolod, Abigail Lerch, Michele McNerney, Lisa Saile and Melissa Pickard. Teachers were provided early training in the first of four new SSEC Science Units as well as Professional Development in Lesson Study. Teachers worked for several months to choose, research, evaluate and propose a lesson focus. The TES team focused on Evidence Based Claims and Accountable Talk within a 1st Grade Smithsonian Science lesson. First graders came to the Maker Lab to solve the question “What is Needed to Make Sound?”
Read more at http://www.tullyschools.org/teacherpage.cfm?teacher=965