The Lawrence Hall of Science
The public science center of the University of California, Berkeley.
Wednesday–Sunday 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Animal Discovery Zone 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
We’ll bring our science programs to you.
We partner with school districts to support science learning. We offer district-wide elementary, middle, and high school programs, either virtually or in-person.
We collaborate with a range of partners to innovate in science education. Together, we go further.
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The Amplify Science Instructional Leaders Community of Practice (ILCP) is a place for Amplify Science instructional coaches and science coordinators from districts across the country to connect with each other through zero-cost and primarily virtual events.
Leslie Stenger
lesliestenger@berkeley.edu
Join our community!
Our virtual events are interactive, participant-centered meetings where you spend a good portion of the time in breakout rooms getting to know job-alike colleagues as you discuss your science leadership successes and challenges. The events include share-outs, panels, and opportunities to create working groups. Members of the group also meet up face to face at NSTA two times per year!
Facilitators
Sessions are facilitated by the professional learning leads from the team at The Lawrence Hall of Science who developed Amplify Science.
Learn more!
To learn more, watch this short screencast of information that was included in our ILCP Launch Event.
The community gathers about once per month and you can join as your schedule allows — you don’t need to commit to attending the full series. Joining us for one of our upcoming gatherings provides you access to the resources and tools that community members have shared.
Hour-long virtual gatherings
Join us on Zoom for these interactive sessions with your colleagues:
Many valuable ideas and resources are shared in our gatherings, and joining us for one of our upcoming gatherings provides you access to what has been shared in previous gatherings.
NSTA New Orleans happy hour
We plan to hold an in-person gathering at NSTA in New Orleans in November, 2024. A number of ILCP members met up at the NSTA in Denver in March, 2024 and had a wonderful time connecting “in real life”!
April Learning Event — Applying a systems lens in leading the implementation of Amplify Science
In addition to our one-hour gatherings, we will be holding a three-hour virtual Learning Event from 9 am-12 pm PT on Thursday, April 25th. We’ll spend this extended time together to reflect on what you’ve accomplished this school year and to identify areas of focus for the coming year. We will also be applying a systems lens to your Amplify Science implementation as you consider next steps in your leadership plans.
Many (but not all) members of the community have also joined the Amplify Science Instructional Leaders Facebook Group; this is another place where you can ask and answer questions and share resources.