New Life Science Regents Labs: Teaching in the Age of NGSS

STEMteachersNYC

Teaching Life Science in the Age of NGSS - w/New Regents Labs and assessment tricks for the new year!

The City College of New York

New Life Science Regents - In Person & Virtual

We are here to support you with sucessful implementation of the new Regents Life Science labs, with monthly virtual sessions and three in-person lab workshops. You are welcome to join for virtual or in-person only, or for the full program.

<h3>Times and Dates</h3>This is a 5-day workshop running July 14-18, 2025 , 9am-3pm daily, at the City College of New York. The exact location within CCNY will be emailed to attendees prior to the start date. <h3>About the Workdhop</h3>Leaders: Chris Resch CTLE: 30 hoursBACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!Life Science education is often associated with memorization. But does it have to be? The Life Sciences is a subject rich in anchoring models that all tie together and build off each other and create a rich story of interactions and scale! Recent shifts in pedagogical research, NGSS/NYS Regents standards have caused movement towards this more conceptually based approach to biology education. We want to help you move your lessons and teaching there as well!Join us for our 5-day workshop, “Life Science Evolved: Teaching Life Science in the Age of NGSS.” This workshop will explore active learning strategies for deepening your student’s understanding of these crucial conceptual models and help you effectively implement a student-centered, NGSS and NYS Regents-aligned approach to life science education. To do this, we will engage with key experiments and activities that can help students build a critical understanding of these models. These experiments will include the three new Regents Biology labs: Structure and Function: Balancing Act – Exploring Feedback and Homeostasis, Inheritance and Variation of Traits: Unraveling the Mystery of Lactose Intolerance, and Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: For the Birds – Designing Solutions.Additionally, participants will engage in both “student mode” and “teacher mode” so that they can experience these activities through both lenses and add practical tools to the teacher toolbox. We will also have structured discussions about the new changes in the New York State Regents curriculum and test, strategies for accommodating district-specific curricular requirements, various student populations, laboratory resources, and the use of “Reflective Checklists” as a way of promoting student reflection throughout a unit.We welcome all teachers and administrators, both new and experienced, to join us for this engaging workshop! STEMteachersNYC delivers professional development workshops for teachers, by teachers, about teaching, since 2011. All workshops over 2hrs offer CTLE. CUNY Pre-service teachers may attend for free. Please reach out if your school requires an invoice. We are an NYCDOE MTAC Vendor. Current CUNY students with valid ID may attend summer workshops at a discount or for FREE! Please email registration@stemteachersnyc.org for details.Email general questions to Registration@STEMteachersNYC.org. Note this workshop requires a minimum number of participants. In the event there are not enough participants, the workshop will be cancelled, and a refund will be issued. Interested in an Invoice/Purchase Order Request?Teachers! Ask your school to pay for your ticket! All the school needs to do is send us a Purchase Order (PO). 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Any questions regarding the PO process please contact <a href="mailto:registration@stemteachersnyc.org" title="mailto:registration@stemteachersnyc.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">bookkeeper@stemteachersnyc.org</a>Please send Purchase Orders (POs) to our Billing OfficeVia Email: <a href="mailto:registration@stemteachersnyc.org" title="mailto:registration@stemteachersnyc.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">bookkeeper@stemteachersnyc.org</a>OR Via US Mail: STEMteachersNYC – Billing Office 245 West 107th Street, Suite 10B New York, NY 10025. Please read the FAQs section below carefully before registering. FAQsIs STEMteachersNYC an approved NYC DOE CTLE Vendor?Yes. STEMteachersNYC is a Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) vendor for the New York City Department of Education (#STE-068881). New York State Teachers will receive a CTLE certificate at the end of the workshop. (CTLE ID # 23385) How can I contact the organizer with any questions?Questions about registration or tickets should be addressed to registration@STEMteachersNYC.org.Questions about invoice/PO issues should be addressed to bookkeeper@STEMteachersNYC.orgQuestions about our programs should be addressed to info@STEMteachersNYC.org Is the full workshop fee or the balance of the workshop fee refundable?Refunds for the balance of the full workshop fee (that is, the full fee minus the reservation fee) must be requested within one (1) week of payment and at least four (4) weeks before the start of the workshop. All such requests must be accompanied by an acceptable, documented explanation. Judgments about acceptability of explanations and documentation, and about whether or not a refund will be issued are at the sole discretion of STEMteachersNYC and are final. Refunds will not include fees charged on the initial payment by Eventbrite, credit cards, and/or banks. 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