Elaine Silva Mangiante
- Workshops and Consulting
- Planning Science Units and Lessons to Make Learning Explicit in Science Inquiry Lessons
- Creating Science Performance Assessments in Elementary and Middle School
- Teachers Working Together to Create an Integrated Science Unit
- Secondary School Personalization: Creating an Advisory Program
- Secondary School Personalization: Student Ownership through Personal Plans for Progress and Student-Led Conferences
Elaine Silva Mangiante is a passionate and inspired science teacher, and winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science. As a science consultant, she trains teachers in instructional strategies to assist all students in learning science concepts, skills, and problem solving strategies. Publications include a December 2006 article entitled "What Happened to Our Volcano? Third Grade Students Discover the Roles of Weathering and Erosion in Reshaping Their Local Landscape" in NTSA’s Science and Children. She has another article scheduled for 2009 publication in NSTA’s Science and Children on the topic of using community resources to teach a science unit comparing field and forest habitat.
Elaine is also an expert on Secondary School Personalization. In this capacity she has worked as a consultant with both The Education Alliance at Brown University and the Center for Secondary School Redesign. She authored the "Personalizing the School" section of the three-part ASCD video series, High Schools at Work – Creating Student-Centered Learning, 2006.
She is a veteran educator, having been an elementary and middle school teacher, a science specialist, mathematics curriculum coordinator, and guidance counselor.
