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2025 CSSS Conference

Start
23 Mar 2025

End
26 Mar 2025

Location
Pennsylvania Convention Center

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Conference registration DOES NOT include membership renewal. Please renew your membership on the CSSS website if it has lapsed.

Conference Information

The Conference Committee is excited to announce the Council of State Science Supervisors 2025 Conference: Learning for Leading. Support. Empower. Partner.

The 2025 Conference Committee is sharing a high level draft agenda, hotel booking information, and conference registration link/fees to help members finalize their travel requests. A sample justification letter is available here

The 2025 CSSS Conference will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. All CSSS Conference meetings will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center - Philadelphia located at 1101 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. The CSSS Conference begins Sunday evening, March 23, 2025, with a social reception and new member welcome, and the main conference and events will take place March 24 - 26, 2025.

Information for booking NSTA 2025 Conference hotel rooms will be released in October 2024. The CSSS room block link for Per Diem rated $210 rooms near the convention center will be available for booking in October on a first come first serve basis. The designated conference hotel is the Downtown Philadelphia Marriott and the estimated room rate per night is $269.00 (estimated government taxes and fees = $32.02 plus convention/tourism fee = $1.54).

Conference Pricing:

Member Registration (Early bird) by March 14, 2025: $350

Member Registration after March 14, 2025: $390

Registration for non-members (Invited): $400

Please feel free to contact Michele Snyder at PAEMST@cosss.org if you have any questions about registration or hotel information.

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17 Mar 2024	2024 CSSS Conference
19 Mar 2023	2023 CSSS Conference
9 Feb 2023	W&C Cubers Collaboration- Standards Adoption & the Stock Take
12 Jan 2023	W&C Cubers Collaboration- CS3 Conference
30 Nov 2022	Scaling Sustainability: The Climate Change Education Committee
13 Oct 2022	W&C- Teacher Recruitment and Retention
26 Jun 2022	2022 CSSS Conference
23 Jun 2022	Whine and Cheese: Professional Learning for Science Educators
26 May 2022	Whine and Cheese: Access and Equity in Science Education
28 Apr 2022	Whine and Cheese: Climate Change Education
6 Apr 2022	Taking Stock Coffee Talks #5 (of 5)
24 Mar 2022	Whine and Cheese: Formative Assessment Procedures and Tools for Educators
16 Mar 2022	Taking Stock Coffee Talks #4
9 Mar 2022	The Building Capacity in State Science Education: Leveraging Freely Available Open Education Resources (BCSSE: OER) Webinar
2 Mar 2022	Taking Stock Coffee Talks #3
16 Feb 2022	Taking Stock Coffee Talks #2
27 Jan 2022	Whine and Cheese: Preview of the Council of State Science Supervisors Annual Conference, Why should I attend? How can I provide input in the planning?
19 Jan 2022	Wayfinding 3
18 Jan 2022	Taking Stock Coffee Talks #1:
16 Dec 2021	Whine and Cheese: Preview of the Council of State Science Supervisors Annual Conference, Why should I attend? How can I provide input in the planning?
1 Dec 2021	ACESSE: Affinity Group Meetings
18 Nov 2021	Whine and Cheese: Council of State Science Supervisors Climate Change Position Statement, What does it say and how might it be useful to your work?
17 Nov 2021	Wayfinding 2
3 Nov 2021	ACESSE: Affinity Groups Meeting
28 Oct 2021	Whine and Cheese: How is Policy Made/What Can You Do (and Not Do When Someone Is Looking)?
6 Oct 2021	ACESSE: Affinity Groups Meeting
23 Sep 2021	Whine and Cheese: Building a Statewide Leadership Cohort
23 Sep 2021	NAEP Feedback Focus Group 3
21 Sep 2021	NAEP Feedback Focus Group 2
20 Sep 2021	NAEP Feedback Focus Group 1
15 Sep 2021	Wayfinding 1
13 Sep 2021	Optional ACESSE: Meaningful Phenomena Affinity Group Meeting
26 Aug 2021	Whine and Cheese: Communicating within the Council of State Science Supervisors
9 Jun 2021	Flinn Scientific New Science Safety Resource Tool
26 May 2021	Future Thinking in Science Educational Systems with Katie King
5 May 2021	SPLS and Online Learning Strategies
29 Apr 2021	Supporting Elementary Science Committee’s Webinar
4 Apr 2021	CSSS Virtual Conference 2021
2 Dec 2020	CSSS Assessing Student Learning Committee and CCSSO
19 Oct 2020	OpenSciEd50+ Supporting Discourse
20 Aug 2020	Back to School with NSTA, NSELA and CSSS
7 Aug 2020	Planning for Fall Schooling - Community Discussions
31 Jul 2020	Planning for Fall Schooling - Community Discussions
30 Jul 2020	Lab Safety Considerations for Back to School
18 Jun 2020	Engagement of our Indigenous Communities as Partners in Implementation: Case Studies
3 Jun 2020	Engagement of our Indigenous Communities as Partners in Implementation: State Contexts
26 May 2020	CSSS Professional Learning Committee Webinar 2
19 May 2020	CSSS Professional Learning Committee Webinar 1
8 May 2020	Supporting Elementary Science: Integrating Across the Curriculum
2 Apr 2020	NSTA 2020 Annual Conference sessions that are sponsored and presented by CSSS members.
30 Mar 2020	CSSS Virtual Conference 2020
4 Mar 2020	Bringing Earth and Space PHENOMENA into K-12 Classrooms through Digital Media with NASA and WGBH/PBS LearningMedia
22 Jan 2020	CSSS Assessment Webinar
12 Dec 2019	CSSS/NSTA December Regional Conference Sessions
14 Nov 2019	CSSS/NSTA November Regional Conference Sessions
7 Nov 2019	ACESSE Project Study Results Conversation
24 Oct 2019	CSSS/NSTA October Regional Conference Sessions
23 Oct 2019	Lab Safety Webinar w/ Jim Kaufman
12 Apr 2019	NSTA/CSSS-Sponsored Session: Formative Assessments of Learners’ Interests, Identities, and Knowledge
12 Apr 2019	NSTA/CSSS-Sponsored Session: CSSS Science Professional Learning Standards—A Tool for Designing, Supporting, and Evaluating Professional Learning
12 Apr 2019	NSTA/CSSS-Sponsored Session: Address Educational Equity in Academically Inclusive Science Classrooms
11 Apr 2019	NSTA/CSSS-Sponsored Session: Using Analogous Phenomena
11 Apr 2019	NSTA/CSSS-Sponsored Session: Choosing Compelling Phenomena to Anchor 3-D Units, Lessons, and Assessments
11 Apr 2019	NSTA/CSSS-Sponsored Session: Grand Slam 3-D Assessment—Researchers, Developers, and Practitioners to Build Capacity, Develop Items, and Implement Strategically
7 Apr 2019	2019 CSSS Conference
10 Jan 2019	Science Professional Learning Standards (SPLS) CSSS/NSELA Joint Webinar
18 Dec 2018	Introduction to OpenSciEd
13 Dec 2018	Professional Learning Standards: What makes for high quality NGSS professional development?
29 Nov 2018	NSTA Regional Conference CSSS-Sponsored Session: Designing and Using Equitable 3-D Formative Assessments to Support Meaningful NGSS Investigations
29 Nov 2018	NSTA Regional Conference CSSS-Sponsored Session: Science Professional Learning Standards—a Tool for Designing, Supporting, and Evaluating Professional Learning
19 Nov 2018	PAEMST State Coordinators’ Meeting
15 Nov 2018	NSTA Regional Conference CSSS-Sponsored Session: Designing and Using Equitable 3-D Formative Assessments to Support Meaningful NGSS Investigations
11 Oct 2018	NSTA Regional Conference CSSS-Sponsored Session: Designing and Using Equitable 3-D Formative Assessments to Support Meaningful NGSS Investigations
11 Oct 2018	NSTA Regional Conference CSSS-Sponsored Session: Leadership in Science Education: Addressing Equity and Access
30 Aug 2018	NSELA/CSSS Joint Webinar
10 Mar 2018	2018 CSSS Conference
1 Nov 2017	ACESSE 50

2025 CSSS Annual Conference is scheduled to be in Philadelphia, PA

March 23-26, 2025

Upcoming CSSS Conferences

Spring 2026 - Anaheim, California

Spring 2027 - Boston, Massachusetts

Past Events Reports

2016

01 Apr 2016 This is a good place to place links to photo reports from past events
23 Mar 2016 You can store your past events reports on separate page and link them here
19 Feb 2016 It's a good way to share photos from the conference with participants and visitors

2015

08 Sep 2015 You can paste a link to this conference report if needed.
24 Aug 2015 It's a good way to share photos from the conference with participants and visitors
29 May 2015 You can paste a link to this conference report if needed.
03 May 2015 It's a good way to share photos from the conference with participants and visitors

2014

24 Aug 2014 It's a good way to share photos from the conference with participants and visitors
29 May 2014 You can paste a link to this conference report if needed.

2013

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