Focus: Vision, strategy, and systems leadership

Key Takeaways

• Analyze how policies, structures, and resource allocation can create or reduce barriers to student success in science.
• Develop leadership strategies that center equity when making decisions about curriculum, assessment, staffing, and professional learning.
• Explore approaches for creating coherent systems that ensure every student has access to high-quality science learning opportunities.
• Reflect on personal and organizational leadership practices that advance educational equity.

Focus: Collaboration, networks, and stakeholder engagement

Key Takeaways

• Strengthen strategies for engaging educators, students, families, community partners, and regional organizations as co-creators of science education improvement efforts.
• Build statewide learning partnerships that support collective problem-solving and shared leadership.
• Examine how authentic stakeholder engagement increases equity, trust, and sustainability in systems change efforts.
• Identify ways to leverage professional networks to improve science learning opportunities across diverse communities.

Focus: Teaching, learning, and professional growth

Key Takeaways

• Explore leadership practices that support equitable access to rigorous, culturally responsive, and student-centered science instruction.
• Examine how instructional materials, professional learning, and implementation supports influence student outcomes.
• Identify strategies for creating learning environments where every student sees themselves as capable of engaging in science.
• Strengthen the ability to support educators in implementing research-based instructional practices that promote belonging and participation.

Focus: Continuous improvement, action planning, and future leadership

Key Takeaways

• Use data, reflection, and stakeholder feedback to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Explore approaches for measuring impact and monitoring progress toward equitable science education goals.
• Develop action plans that sustain momentum and build leadership capacity within organizations and communities.
• Strengthen leadership practices that create lasting opportunities and remove barriers so that each and every student experiences the full benefit of science education.