Padian, have you had any experience with high school or elementary school curriculum development and teacher training?
A. Yes. Since I’ve been in California, since the mid 1980s, I’ve worked in several capacities for the State Department of Education in California on various panels and committees. Notably, I guess, I was one of the people who wrote and edited the state science framework for K12 schools in 1990. And this is the central document that embodies science education for the state. It’s the document against which districts and other organizations will develop their curricula locally. And my role there was to write about guidelines for the — explaining what science is, the nature of science, explaining the goals for K12 in the life sciences and for some of the earth sciences and several other parts of that. In addition, I guess I’ve served three times on what we call the instructional materials evaluation panel as a scientific member. California is an adoption state, which means that it’s one of 23 states for which the state actually selects which textbooks can be used by local districts and fo
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