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Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT

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she/her Getting students doing science as a 9-12 science specialist and studying gender equity in physics classrooms

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Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · Aug 14

Trying a #Teach180 this year, but for my non-classroom role. I’ve been the HS science curriculum specialist, but adding MS science and 6-12 digital learning specialist this year, so lots to learn!

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Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 21h

Day 49 students in MN pick chemistry or physics for their 3rd year of science. I started getting some enrollment data on who's taking each option in our district so we can start digging into some questions about that choice. #Teach180

Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 1d

A little over a year ago, I started commuting by bike when the weather and my schedule allow. Even though my morning ride is chilly and dark right now, it's worth it every time.

A photo of an empty road before dawn. There are dark trees on either side of the road. The sun is just starting to rise, so the cloudy sky is dark blue near the top of the photo, then going to purple and red toward the horizon.

Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 1d

Day 48 caught up on emails after being out Fri and Mon, followed up on some Schoology trouble tickets, and met with my mentor for a sci ed leadership program to think through some assessment challenges #Teach180

Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 6d

Day 47 did some more prep to lead an upcoming PD and met with some 6th grade science teachers to look at the driving question board lesson in the next unit. Fun to see how excited they are for what's in that lesson! Now a couple of personal days to visit some friends. #Teach180

Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 7d

Day 46 lots of meetings, but also spent some time visiting science classes in one of the high schools. It's always fun to be back around kids doing science! #Teach180

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Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 8d

Day 45 started gathering some info on where middle school science is at on assessment and did some planning a districtwide meeting that's coming up #Teach180

Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 9d

Day 44 I joined a 6th grade class to support a teacher using Gizmos for the first time and worked on some documents to help show how our standards have kids progress in the science practices #Teach180

Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 14d

Day 43 was the last day before a long weekend! I met with a teacher thinking about how standards-based grading could fit with our curriculum and put together some materials showing how our state standards call for kids to develop in the science practices 6-8. #Teach180

Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 15d

The Indian Ed folks had the idea to focus on music. Kids watched some videos with background on drums in Native culture and powwows, then listened to and discussed a couple examples of powwow music. Next, they did the same with some examples of Indigenous artists combining club and powwow music.

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Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 15d

Day 42 met with my middle school math counterpart to start thinking about what more collaboration between our departments could look like, which is really exciting #Teach180

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 16d

If you are struggling with polarization and its impact on your school staff, might I recommend my book Becoming an Everyday Changemaker? I have a whole chapter on cultivating both/and thinking as a skill for school change!

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Becoming an Everyday Changemaker: Healing and Justice At School

Educators with a vision for more equitable, caring schools often struggle with where to begin. I’m just one teacher, where can I start to make change? Is it even possible? How do I do this within curr...

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Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 16d

Day 41 is Indigenous Peoples Day, which means all 6-12 students did a lesson I worked on with folks from our Office of American Indian Ed. I wish I’d made plans to visit some classrooms doing the lesson, but will try next year if I’m involved again. #Teach180

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18d

AI in education amplifies existing biases against marginalized or vulnerable groups

AI in education is not evidence-based but based on speculation and proof of concept claims

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Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 19d

Day 40 led some PD on supporting groupwork in our science curricula and had some good conversations that helped me deepen my understanding of what's happening in middle school science #Teach180

Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 20d

Day 39 spent a couple hours visiting middle school classrooms. One of the realities of going from supporting 2 buildings to 4 is I’m in each one less often than in the past and I’m feeling less connected. I need to give some thought to how I can be more present in each school. #Teach180

Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 21d

Day 38 I worked on making sense of the reports that break down our state test scores by disciplinary core idea and did some digging into gaps between what's in our state standards and what's in our middle school science curriculum #Teach180

Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 22d

Day 37 did a peer observation in a bio class and checked in with some 6th grade science teachers to help make sense of the teacher materials for our curriculum #Teach180

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Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 23d

I love this! So well put!

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 23d

I think we have to start teaching information from AI as a type of adaptation. The information you get isn’t first hand: it’s all filtered through an algorithm’s lens, and it’s important to interrogate the algorithm and the lens if you want to learn something.

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Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 23d

Yes to all of this!

Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 23d

And I think a lot of HS teachers would like to do a better job on this front, there's just a lot of barriers and only so much time and energy teachers can put in!

Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 23d

Day 36 did lots of work on logistics for reviewing curriculum in our HS science electives and started slides for PD on Friday #Teach180

Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 23d

The text and curriculum often come from different places, so it takes time to find the relevant sections of the text to point kids to and kids get tripped up when details like the variable choice don't match what's used in class. So I think lots of teachers decide it's not worth the effort.

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Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 26d

Day 35 worked on planning some PD I'm leading next week and started organizing info to update our AP Chemistry text #Teach180

Marta R. Stoeckel, PhD, NBCT @martastoeckel.bsky.social · 27d

Day 34 I observed an 8th grade teacher doing cool groupwork stuff, checked in with some 6th grade teachers new to teaching science, and talked state science testing with a middle school team. #Teach180

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