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These resources are part of a system of tools and tool-based practices for early career and pre-service secondary science teachers that support transitions from novice to expert-like pedagogical reasoning and practice. These tools include:

* a video-based learning progression for teaching Model-Based Inquiry,

* discourse guides for core conversations in classrooms,

* rapid assessment models to tap student thinking,

* rubrics to evaluate students' abilities to construct evidence-based explanations in science, and

* a suite of resources that help groups of teachers collect and analyze their own students' work, in order to advance their instruction.

Our proposed system of tools will serve as a model for making early career teacher training and induction clearly focused on student learning. This system of tools is designed to be responsive to all students in the classroom.