CELI uses a networked improvement community (NIC) approach to school-wide transformation, teacher, agency, and minoritized students’ climate science and belonging in two low-income public schools (a middle school and a high school) receiving all of the District’s new-immigrant students in Hayward, CA.
SRMPmachine innovates within the well-established Science Research Mentoring Program (SRMP) by creating opportunities for high school interns to apply machine learning (ML) to scientific problems in the natural sciences. We are measuring students knowledge and skill gains, and shifts in attitudes towards AI and career awareness.
An interdisciplinary team of faculty and staff at Illinois State University (ISU) is collaborating with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Community-Based-Organizations (CBOs) in four Chicago neighborhoods to develop an after-school STEM program focused on renewable energy, robotics, and automation.
We designed, developed and implemented an innovative, transmedia curriculum (called CryptoComics) to teach 3rd-5th grade African American females and other afterschool learners about cryptography and cybersecurity and related careers. https://theconversation.com/comic-book-introduces-kids-to-key-concepts-and-careers-in-cybersecurity-171163
This project takes a Civic Science approach to STEM, i.e., students engaging in science to promote the public good. Classes of students from minoritized backgrounds collaborate with community partners to identify, study, and act on environmental problems in their urban communities.
This project will provide critical insights and research into effective strategies for supporting female students in rural communities, and all students, in exploring STEM careers, and how Universal Design for Learning can play a role in removing barriers and increasing access for a broad range of learners.
Learn about the universally-designed ModelME fraction curriculum with embedded Dream2B game.
We will collaborate with 3 annual teacher cohorts (80 teachers total) from Florida Title I middle schools to develop innovative STEM curriculum. This will be done via week-long summer PDs, scientist-teacher partnerships, periodic virtual sharing and planning meetings, and standards-based curricular instruction during the school year. Our project activities integrating fossil sharks and AI will reach at least ~2K to 4K students each year.