Professional Development Provider Institute: Institute #2

Each Professional Development Provider Institute (PDPI) is a 4-day experience designed to support you as a PD provider by deepening your knowledge, increasing your confidence, and enhancing your abilities. Institute # 2 in this series will focus on:

  • PL Design: Constructing Explanations & Arguments

  • Leading Curriculum Implementation

  • Leading Change, Part II

📋 Preview the 4-Day Agenda 📋

The goals of the series are to:

  • Enhance your knowledge of research and literature underpinning the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and increase your ability to support teachers as they translate research into the classroom.
  • Increase your capacity to support teachers in using routines, strategies, tools, and processes for enacting three-dimensional learning experiences with students.
  • Strengthen your ability to design and lead professional learning programs that support teachers in taking on the instructional shifts called for in NRC’s Framework and the NGSS.

Who should participate?

  • District science leaders
  • Teacher leaders
  • Science consultants
  • University faculty
  • PD leaders from informal science education institutions

What are the benefits?

After participating in the program, PD providers will be able to:

  • Plan, lead, and evaluate workshops that help teachers enact three-dimensional teaching and learning in their classrooms.
  • Use a variety of “close-to-the-classroom” routines and strategies to support teachers in strengthening their classroom practice.
  • Monitor and adjust plans based on data and understandings about leading change.
  • Increase intentionality in leadership practices.

Details

When: September 22–25, 2026 | 8 a.m.–4 p.m. MT

Where: BSCS Science Learning, Colorado Springs, CO

Pricing: 

  • Early Bird Rates for registrations received by August 31, 2026:
    • $1,600/person
    • $1,500/person for teams of two or more.
  • Regular Registration:
    • $1,800/person
    • $1,700/person for teams of two or more.
  • The registration fee covers institute materials and lunch each day.

Registration Deadline: September 10, 2026

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"PDPI was a turning point for us in our district. It pushed us to rethink professional learning—not as something 'delivered' to teachers, but as an experience that mirrors what we want for students. We now intentionally plan for genuine intellectual struggle and the breakthroughs that happen when we reflect on our own thinking. This shift created a clear path toward high-quality, three-dimensional learning. Teachers are requesting professional learning like never before, and student reasoning has become clearly visible in the classroom. PDPI transformed our culture, growing teacher leaders who not only facilitate these moments for their students but also for their peers."

Trudy Rogers District Science Facilitator Knox County Schools, Tennessee