Starting Small: Celebrating First Steps When Adopting Curricular Changes K–16

Many teachers leverage their assets to adopt changes using small but meaningful changes that go beyond “box-checking” and encourage authentic learning and engagement. This book celebrates teachers’ small steps by sharing examples of these excellent small changes.

Lauren Madden is a professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education at The College of New Jersey, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate science teaching methods courses and degree capstone courses. She has published science education articles in many peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Science Teacher Education, Science and Children (NSTA), Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, Research in Science Education, Environmental Education Research, CITE Journal (Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education), and International Journal of Science Education. Her research interests include scientist-educator collaboration, intersections of Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core Curriculum Standards, preservice teacher perspectives and attitudes on STEM education, and the uses of interactive science notebooks.