For many years, BASP has been a vital resource – not only in the teaching of science but also as a model of professional learning, and teacher leadership. BASP engages and collaborates with university scientists, teacher-leaders, and master teachers to lead high-quality professional learning that focuses on strengthening science conceptual and content understanding, promoting cross-curricular integration, supporting environmental literacy, systems thinking, and locally relevant instruction. BASP fosters teacher leadership, through sustained relationships and collaborations. BASP is firmly committed to addressing racial, social, and environmental injustices through partnering and collaborative efforts with teachers, schools, districts, university, and both local and state science agencies.

Investing in Localized Science Teaching with Understanding Global Change

1. Teacher Leader Professional Learning  – now closed
2. Teacher Professional Learning Workshops – Summer, 2026. BASP will offer a 2-day workshop for 45 high school science teachers, engaging participants in exploring wildfires and deepening their understanding of the underlying complex processes that explain causes, consequences, and possible mitigation and adaptation strategies. Teachers will engage in a coherent sequence of learning activities, involving modeling and making sense of data. All participants will be provided with the unit teaching resources that include the UGC framework and explanatory modeling materials to build an understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological processes and phenomena that shape our changing planet.