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. 2024 Jun:2024:2303-2304.
doi: 10.22318/icls2024.997270.

EMPOWER: Enacting Materials to Promote Ownership, Engagement, and Relevance

Mon-Lin Monica Ko  1 , Christina Krist  2 , Barbara Hug  2 , Kerri Wingert  3 , Enrique Suárez  4 , Logan Hillary Lauren  2 , Nicholas Leonardi  2 , Kevin Hall  2 , Erica Light  4
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EMPOWER: Enacting Materials to Promote Ownership, Engagement, and Relevance

Mon-Lin Monica Ko et al. Int Conf Learn Sci. 2024 Jun.

Abstract

Fostering locally relevant and community-centered forms of science learning that develop students' critical science agency problematizes a "one-size-fits-all" model of teacher learning; teachers must examine how community needs and resources, local inequities and justice issues, and curriculum materials can converge to design novel learning opportunities for science learners. This paper presents the core commitments of EMPOWER, a cross-institutional effort that aims to support teachers' sensemaking and adaptations of curriculum materials to promote student ownership, engagement, and relevance at multiple sites across the U.S.

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5 Core Commitments of the EMPOWER Project
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