Applications for the 25-27 Cohort are now closed for this cycle.

The next round of ONLINE professional development:

ORIENTATION: June 26, 2025

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: July 21-25, 2025

Linking Science, Mathematics & Literacy for All Learners partners with teachers of 6th-8th grade Life Sciences, Mathematics, English Language Arts and Special Education for this exciting opportunity funded by a second National Institutes of Health Science Education Partnership Award (NIH-SEPA).  

  Specifically, participants will:  

  • Develop 6th-to 8th-grade-level multimodal STEM text sets that address Science, Mathematics and ELA Standards; and
  • With instructional support, implement multimodal STEM text sets in the classroom, with special attention to the needs of diverse learners. 

Teacher Perspectives

Findings for Students with Disabilities

Happenings

LSM&L4AL Newsletter December 2024

Happenings For the ’24-’25 school year, we have 24 teacher participants across 4 states. Each participant will create and implement a STEM multimodal text set with their students to promote the development of scientific argumentation when engaging with complex texts.

Cohort 1 Student Outcomes

Data from students (n = 498) of teachers in Cohort 1 (23-24) participating in the multimodal text sets showed a significant gain in their claim-evidence-reasoning argumentation scores (Cohen’s D = 0.25, p < 0.001). These scores are aligned with the…

EdWeek Panel Discussion

Members of the Linking Science, Literacy and Mathematics for All Learners team participated in an EdWeek panel discussion, titled The Literacy Demands of the Science Classroom, led by Sarah Sparks (Assistant Editor, Education Week). Discussion with over 240 participants focused…

Teacher Viewpoints

Teacher Growth“I have learned so much from this experience. There is so much growth when you come in not knowing anything about CER, multimodal text sets etc., and now can talk confidently about it and how it’s being used in…
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