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Regional Science Education Cooperative The ESD 105 Science Education Cooperate is a partnership involving 22 school districts and two private schools. The Cooperative provides inquiry-based science professional development training in order to continue to realize the LASER project goals in our region. All eachers receive the same two-day Initial Kit Use training (on specific grade level kits) and a one-day Content deepening training. Thus, students throughout the Cooperative districts are receiving consistent, inquiry-based science instruction. The two-day trainings also prepare teachers to integrate mathematics, reading, and writing into their science instruction. The Cooperative supports teachers as they become Master Trainers at the Initial Use level. The teachers progress from master teachers to master trainers by following a timeline that includes implementing the kit in their classroom, attending the professional development manual training, shadowing a training, co-presenting lessons at a training, co-leading or leading a training. The teacher/trainers are also taught how to integrate mathematics, writing, and reading, along with WASL-language, into the Initial Use Trainings. The Cooperative goal is to have two Master Trainers for each of the 19 Curriculum Program units available to provide training for the Cooperative's 1,100 teachers. Another component of the Science Education Cooperative is science kit rotation among the teachers in 22 districts and two private schools. Rather than each district purchasing three kits for each teacher, the Cooperative approach allows for a district to purchase the use of three kits per teacher at approximately 1/3 the cost. In conjuction with the Yakima School District Science Resource Center, which is under contract to refurbish the used kits, the cooperative can rotate the same kits throughout the region athree times each year. This provides a great cost saving to the districts.
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