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title: Curriculum Pitfalls You Can Avoid with Next Generation Science
description: Under Next Generation Science Standards, curriculum plays a specific role in the mastery of standards and as a context for assessment.
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 FREE WEBINAR

# Curriculum Pitfalls You Can Avoid with Next Generation Science

## For some the difference between standards, curriculum, and assessment can be hard to define.

Under the Next Generation Science Standards, curriculum plays a specific role in the mastery of standards and as a context for assessment.

**In this free webinar, learn how to avoid the following pitfalls:**

- Curriculum that is loosely "aligned" but not well designed for NGSS mastery.
- Asking "What standards are you teaching today?"
- Phasing in content and practices.
- Failing to coach teachers’ instructional practices.
- Faux science and engineering tasks.
- Failing to provide hands-on resources for students' science and engineering investigations.

Helpful tips and techniques you'll take away:

- How to be a more critical consumer of next generation curriculum.
- Tools to evaluate the next generation classrooms with fewer binary techniques.
- Tools to evaluate your NGSS implementation on two levels: school and district.

 

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##### FRANCIS VIGEANT

###### Teacher and CEO KnowAtom, LLC

Francis’ classroom regularly placed in the top 10 in the nation for science standardized testing.

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