Community Resources For Science

Teacher Services. CRS provided 2,000 TK and Kindergarten through 8th grade educators with comprehensive information services including newsbulletins, curated online content, customized research, and resource guides regarding grants, lesson plans, field trips, training and more from over 200 science education partners in the region and beyond. We provided hundreds of teachers with professional learning, including research experiences with STEM professionals. CRS provides support for teachers in over 140 elementary and middle schools in the East Bay, impacting learning for 43,000 children. Professional development workshops, often in collaboration with science centers and environmental education partners, explored teaching pedagogy,st andards, and content across all science disciplines as well as engineering. Our focus is on serving the needs of schools and districts with majority low-income, immigrant, and under-represented communities. Through our Champions of Discovery challenge CRS highlights best practices in STEM education, motivates and recognizes success for teachers implementing high-quality science learning for their students. Teachers call CRS 'the best friend a teacher can have and indicate that CRS support, training, and programs strengthen teacher confidence, skill, motivation and effectiveness in implementing strong science learning.

Resource Development: Convening, consulting, and curriculum development and training projects targeting challenges and opportunities in K-8 science education. CRS provided professional development and curricular development services to schools, districts, and informal education organizations. CRS coordinated site-based projects, facilitated development of new teacher training collaborations, consulted with principals and district leaders to assess the needs and gather partners together to provide solutions, and mobilized resources to address critical challenges such as a lack of at-home science materials for students during distance-learning. Through regional, state, and national conferences and networks, CRS serves as a leader in advocating for high-quality science education for elementary and middle school students. CRS collaborates with partner organizations through STEM Networks in the region, state, and across the country. Convening of partners from science centers, academia, industry and school districts as CRS Elementary Science Advisory Council. Writing climate change and environmental justice curriculum for statewide K-12 project.