Ms VanValen and ESL students monitoring the streams of Randolph #randolphschools ⁦Kathleen Van Valen⁩ ⁦@Mrs_SGonzalez⁩ ⁦@PaulaPC22⁩

A great day for a field trip with Raritan Headwaters environmental scientist 🦗🕷🦐💧⁦Kathleen Van Valen⁩ ⁦@Mrs_SGonzalez⁩ #raritanheadwaters #randolphschools

Happy 4th of July - here are some cellular fireworks! This oligodendrocyte is actively growing its microtubules. It's expressing fluorescent EB3, a protein that binds to the plus ends of microtubules and shows that most microtubules have directed growth away from the cell body.

Blown away by our #AP Bio scores! Outstanding work by our students and teachers! Kathleen Van Valen & Ms. Buchalski Looking forward to 19-20 with 59 students! Onward & Upward! #RandolphSchools #STEM #ValueAdded #Leadership

Making great progress designing authentic project-oriented units thanks to a lot of productive discussions with colleagues. Excited for September! PBLWorks

Check out these walls! 😍 so much space for student sense-making

Making non-fiction txt comprehensible to our SpEd & ELLs is part of our push towards equity in science. Here are 2 versions of the same Performance Task text. We used rewordify.com to quickly identify potentially problematic words. How do you incorporate reading #NGSS

Happy Halloween from (most of) Randolph Schools biology!!! 💀🦊🐿

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Love when new inquiry activities work out! Students activated prior knowledge of photosynthesis & chemical indicators to interpret the photosynthetic ability of different flasks. So many "ah-ha" moments! 🌿

Can't wait to prepare bio students to work collaboratively on their algae farms and think like engineers!

Thank you Kristin Germinario Mongelli and RHS iCoach for your support throughout this past quarter as I tried out a LOT of new ideas! Our Ss carried out REAL science to build, test, revise, & evaluate their algae farms as a solution to climate change🌎

Wow!! Check out this awesome publication that explains complex and often misunderstood mechanisms in a very accessible format 🤓

PLS RT&SHARE #NGSSchat Privileged to engage with #NSELA60 leaders today to discuss the current historic moment & diverse sense-making from #SciEd frame. Here are my slides—PDFs, PPTs. I so appreciated the authentic & vulnerable conversation! #EquityFirst tinyurl.com/Bell-NSELA-2020

The 2020 AP Biology scores: 5: 9.4%; 4: 22.5%; 3: 36.6%; 2: 24.2%; 1: 7.3%.