1. Discuss the need to revise science education standards now

2. Clarify conceptual considerations behind core ideas, standards, benchmarks, and performance expectations and discuss the rationale behind the call for fewer, clearer and higher standards

3. Share initial experiences from the ongoing process of developing common core standards in mathematics and English language Arts

4. Report on the results of NSTA’s Science Anchors project

5. Consider insights about the potential role of learning progressions in defining core ideas, gained from a recent meeting at the Academies

6. Present and discuss a new effort to develop a theoretical framework for core ideas in science and for developing standards based on this framework over the course of the next two years.

9:00 a.m. Welcome and Overview of the Meeting

Helen Quinn, Chair, Board on Science Education

Martin Storksdieck, Director, Board on Science Education

9:15 a.m. What has changed? Reasons for tackling new science education standards
Heidi Schweingruber, Deputy Director, Board on Science Education

9:35 a.m. The call for fewer, higher, and clearer standards: opportunities and barriers
Michele Cahill, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Comments by Thomas Corcoran, Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) at Teachers College, Columbia University

9:55 a.m. Common core standards work in Mathematics and English Language Arts
Michael Cohen, Achieve, Inc.

10:20 a.m. Science Anchors and the role of the teacher voice
Francis Eberle, Executive Director, National Science Teachers Association

10:40 a.m. Break

10:55 a.m. A Core Ideas Framework for Standards: the NRC contribution
Helen Quinn and Philip Bell, Board on Science Education

11:15 a.m. After the NRC: Developing new science education standards in the coming two years
Jean Slattery, Achieve

11:30 a.m. Questions and feedback
What other organizations need to be part of this work? What strength do they bring?