Ambitious teaching can be learned. Ambitious Science Teaching supports students in tackling authentic and meaningful science phenomena with attention to students’ histories, social interactions, and local and global communities. Ambitious teaching requires that teachers develop deep commitments to student learning and a historical understanding of inequity in science and schools. Ambitious teaching takes practice. This website provides resources to develop a vision of ambitious science instruction for today’s complex K-12 classrooms, professional learning, and teacher education.
We are on a journey to better understand justice-centered, ambitious science teaching and learning, and invite you to join us. Working toward justice in science education means interrogating the past and present while envisioning a more just future. Justice-centered teaching spans multiple spheres, including our personal and collective moral and ethical obligations, culturally and linguistically sustaining science teaching practices for a classroom community, and structural and systemic injustice sites extending beyond a single classroom. By working across these spheres, justice-centered teaching aims to revitalize, sustain, and learn from Black, Brown, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority who have worked to redress harm to society and the environment. We invite you to consider three questions: