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Poster | Using Problem-based Learning Analytics to Investigate Individual and Collaborative Mathematics Learning in a Digital Environment Over Time
Building on prior NSF-supported research, this four-year project explores two hypotheses about improving middle grade students’ mathematical understanding through learning analytics in a digital, collaborative, problem-based curriculum: students’ individual and collaborative engagement and learning improve when they are given meaningful analytics about their developing ideas; using digital…
Building on prior NSF-supported research, this four-year project explores two hypotheses about improving middle grade students’ mathematical understanding through learning analytics in a digital, collaborative, problem-based curriculum: students’ individual and collaborative engagement and learning improve when they are given meaningful analytics about their developing ideas; using digital…
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Poster | Enhancing the Teacher-Curriculum Relationship in Problem-based Mathematics Classrooms by Connecting Teacher and Student Digital Collaborative Environments
The project creates a digital space for middle school math teachers to collaborate, using problem-based curriculum materials shared with students. It enables teachers to plan, teach, and reflect on student learning together, even across different buildings. The platform includes classroom artifacts, teacher-created resources, and curriculum materials. The project explores how teachers use…
The project creates a digital space for middle school math teachers to collaborate, using problem-based curriculum materials shared with students. It enables teachers to plan, teach, and reflect on student learning together, even across different buildings. The platform includes classroom artifacts, teacher-created resources, and curriculum materials. The project explores how teachers use…
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Poster | Exploring the Landscape of Rural Mathematics Education (Collaborative Research)
We proposed to generate an understanding of rural mathematics education and conditions impacting rural mathematics education in middle schools across the US, with the goal of understanding the gap between current practices and practices associated with economically competitive regions. We hope to understand the current landscape of mathematics education in rural areas and to understand the…
We proposed to generate an understanding of rural mathematics education and conditions impacting rural mathematics education in middle schools across the US, with the goal of understanding the gap between current practices and practices associated with economically competitive regions. We hope to understand the current landscape of mathematics education in rural areas and to understand the…
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Poster | Exploring the Landscape of Rural Mathematics Education (Collaborative Research)
We proposed to generate an understanding of rural mathematics education and conditions impacting rural mathematics education in middle schools across the US, with the goal of understanding the gap between current practices and practices associated with economically competitive regions. We hope to understand the current landscape of mathematics education in rural areas and to understand the…
We proposed to generate an understanding of rural mathematics education and conditions impacting rural mathematics education in middle schools across the US, with the goal of understanding the gap between current practices and practices associated with economically competitive regions. We hope to understand the current landscape of mathematics education in rural areas and to understand the…
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Poster | Exploring the Landscape of Rural Mathematics Education (Collaborative Research)
We proposed to generate an understanding of rural mathematics education and conditions impacting rural mathematics education in middle schools across the US, with the goal of understanding the gap between current practices and practices associated with economically competitive regions. We hope to understand the current landscape of mathematics education in rural areas and to understand the…
We proposed to generate an understanding of rural mathematics education and conditions impacting rural mathematics education in middle schools across the US, with the goal of understanding the gap between current practices and practices associated with economically competitive regions. We hope to understand the current landscape of mathematics education in rural areas and to understand the…
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Poster | Examining Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Behaviors and Learning with an Online Professional Development Platform (Collaborative Research)
In this project, we explore different ways elementary school teachers participate in online learning on the Everyday Mathematics Virtual Learning Community (VLC), a platform that includes videos, discussions, and other resources for mathematics teaching. Using this large-scale VLC for elementary teachers, we address which common patterns of teacher online behavior sequences can be identified…
In this project, we explore different ways elementary school teachers participate in online learning on the Everyday Mathematics Virtual Learning Community (VLC), a platform that includes videos, discussions, and other resources for mathematics teaching. Using this large-scale VLC for elementary teachers, we address which common patterns of teacher online behavior sequences can be identified…
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Poster | Examining Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Behaviors and Learning with an Online Professional Development Platform (Collaborative Research)
In this project, we explore different ways elementary school teachers participate in online learning on the Everyday Mathematics Virtual Learning Community (VLC), a platform that includes videos, discussions, and other resources for mathematics teaching. Using this large-scale VLC for elementary teachers, we address which common patterns of teacher online behavior sequences can be identified…
In this project, we explore different ways elementary school teachers participate in online learning on the Everyday Mathematics Virtual Learning Community (VLC), a platform that includes videos, discussions, and other resources for mathematics teaching. Using this large-scale VLC for elementary teachers, we address which common patterns of teacher online behavior sequences can be identified…
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Poster | Examining Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Behaviors and Learning with an Online Professional Development Platform (Collaborative Research)
In this project, we explore different ways elementary school teachers participate in online learning on the Everyday Mathematics Virtual Learning Community (VLC), a platform that includes videos, discussions, and other resources for mathematics teaching. Using this large-scale VLC for elementary teachers, we address which common patterns of teacher online behavior sequences can be identified…
In this project, we explore different ways elementary school teachers participate in online learning on the Everyday Mathematics Virtual Learning Community (VLC), a platform that includes videos, discussions, and other resources for mathematics teaching. Using this large-scale VLC for elementary teachers, we address which common patterns of teacher online behavior sequences can be identified…
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Poster | Developing Science Assessments for Language Diversity in Early Elementary Classrooms
There is an urgent need for vetted Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)–aligned, classroom-based formative assessment tasks for the early grades that incorporate language and literacy development of young students into the design. This project is designing instructional assessment materials using the Science Assessments for Language Diversity in Early Elementary Classrooms (SALDEE) approach…
There is an urgent need for vetted Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)–aligned, classroom-based formative assessment tasks for the early grades that incorporate language and literacy development of young students into the design. This project is designing instructional assessment materials using the Science Assessments for Language Diversity in Early Elementary Classrooms (SALDEE) approach…
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Poster | Developing Professional Learning Experiences in Engineering for High School Counselors
This project provides a year-long professional learning experience for high school counselors to enhance their efficacy in and dispositions toward advancing engineering career counseling. Through hands-on design activities and an action-oriented community of practice, counselors will connect with engineering education stakeholders, develop a deeper understanding of engineering disciplines, and…
This project provides a year-long professional learning experience for high school counselors to enhance their efficacy in and dispositions toward advancing engineering career counseling. Through hands-on design activities and an action-oriented community of practice, counselors will connect with engineering education stakeholders, develop a deeper understanding of engineering disciplines, and…
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Poster | Centering Indigenous Science in K-12 Science Instructional Materials
To successfully understand and address complex and important questions in the field of environmental science, many kinds of communities’ knowledge about their local environment need to be engaged. This one-year partnership development project involves a collaboration to design an approach that would yield opportunities for K-12 students to learn about environmental science in ways that honor both…
To successfully understand and address complex and important questions in the field of environmental science, many kinds of communities’ knowledge about their local environment need to be engaged. This one-year partnership development project involves a collaboration to design an approach that would yield opportunities for K-12 students to learn about environmental science in ways that honor both…
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Poster | CAREER: Second Chance STEM: Uncovering School Policies Structuring Access to and Engagement in High School STEM Credit Recovery
Online STEM credit courses have become attractive to school leaders as a way to support students who fail STEM courses in face-to-face school year settings. However, there is little research about the processes involved in how schools make decisions regarding student credit recovery. This study is engaged in data collection in high schools in a diverse county including credit recovery classroom…
Online STEM credit courses have become attractive to school leaders as a way to support students who fail STEM courses in face-to-face school year settings. However, there is little research about the processes involved in how schools make decisions regarding student credit recovery. This study is engaged in data collection in high schools in a diverse county including credit recovery classroom…
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Poster | Developing Learning Trajectories Supporting Middle School Student Understanding of Artificial Intelligence Concepts; Building Teacher Capacity for Teaching Across Science Disciplines Using "Smart" Greenhouses (Collaborative Research)
This project will develop a professional development (PD) program to support teachers in implementing a physical computing anchored transdisciplinary curriculum. The program includes summer institutes and year-long activities where teachers will be first immersed in the same transdisciplinary learning experiences their students will undergo and then co-design/revise the curriculum for the local…
This project will develop a professional development (PD) program to support teachers in implementing a physical computing anchored transdisciplinary curriculum. The program includes summer institutes and year-long activities where teachers will be first immersed in the same transdisciplinary learning experiences their students will undergo and then co-design/revise the curriculum for the local…
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Poster | Developing Learning Trajectories Supporting Middle School Student Understanding of Artificial Intelligence Concepts; Building Teacher Capacity for Teaching Across Science Disciplines Using "Smart" Greenhouses (Collaborative Research)
This project will develop a professional development (PD) program to support teachers in implementing a physical computing anchored transdisciplinary curriculum. The program includes summer institutes and year-long activities where teachers will be first immersed in the same transdisciplinary learning experiences their students will undergo and then co-design/revise the curriculum for the local…
This project will develop a professional development (PD) program to support teachers in implementing a physical computing anchored transdisciplinary curriculum. The program includes summer institutes and year-long activities where teachers will be first immersed in the same transdisciplinary learning experiences their students will undergo and then co-design/revise the curriculum for the local…
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Poster | Developing Learning Trajectories Supporting Middle School Student Understanding of Artificial Intelligence Concepts; Building Teacher Capacity for Teaching Across Science Disciplines Using "Smart" Greenhouses (Collaborative Research)
This project will develop a professional development (PD) program to support teachers in implementing a physical computing anchored transdisciplinary curriculum. The program includes summer institutes and year-long activities where teachers will be first immersed in the same transdisciplinary learning experiences their students will undergo and then co-design/revise the curriculum for the local…
This project will develop a professional development (PD) program to support teachers in implementing a physical computing anchored transdisciplinary curriculum. The program includes summer institutes and year-long activities where teachers will be first immersed in the same transdisciplinary learning experiences their students will undergo and then co-design/revise the curriculum for the local…
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Poster | Broadening Participation Among Multilingual Learners Through High School Teachers' Professional Learning Experiences in the Instructional Conversation Pedagogy
This three-year project aims to increase multilingual students’ engagement in scientific and engineering practices (SEPs) through a model of professional learning for high school teachers focused on embedding the Instructional Conversation (IC) pedagogy within standards-aligned SEPs. Under this model, science teachers will collaborate with English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teachers…
This three-year project aims to increase multilingual students’ engagement in scientific and engineering practices (SEPs) through a model of professional learning for high school teachers focused on embedding the Instructional Conversation (IC) pedagogy within standards-aligned SEPs. Under this model, science teachers will collaborate with English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teachers…
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Poster | Elementary Teacher Professional Learning of Equitable Engineering Pedagogies for Multilingual Students
This project is developing a standards-aligned engineering professional learning model for elementary teachers of multilingual learners. Using a participatory and collaborative approach, experts in literacy, language, and engineering will work with elementary teachers to develop strategies for how teachers can view students’ multilingualism as an asset to engineering.
This project is developing a standards-aligned engineering professional learning model for elementary teachers of multilingual learners. Using a participatory and collaborative approach, experts in literacy, language, and engineering will work with elementary teachers to develop strategies for how teachers can view students’ multilingualism as an asset to engineering.
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Poster | Culturally Responsive Elementary Science Teaching
This project explores the influence of elementary teachers' curricular context knowledge, developed over multiple curricular enactments, to adapt curriculum materials in ways that are culturally respsonsive to their students. The project utilizes Explore the Salish Sea, a place-based curriculum that braids together Western and Indigenous science. Students learn about their local ecosystem and and…
This project explores the influence of elementary teachers' curricular context knowledge, developed over multiple curricular enactments, to adapt curriculum materials in ways that are culturally respsonsive to their students. The project utilizes Explore the Salish Sea, a place-based curriculum that braids together Western and Indigenous science. Students learn about their local ecosystem and and…
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Poster | Using Integrated, Place-based Watershed Curriculum to Increase Teacher Self-Efficacy with Culturally Relevant STEM
Project CuRRENT addresses the need for incorporating multiple ways of knowing and learning into STEM pedagogy and curriculum through the design and delivery of a two-year professional development (PD) model that engaged elementary teachers in integrated, place-based, and regionally relevant learning focused on the theme of local watersheds. We explore how PD that embeds epistemological pluralism…
Project CuRRENT addresses the need for incorporating multiple ways of knowing and learning into STEM pedagogy and curriculum through the design and delivery of a two-year professional development (PD) model that engaged elementary teachers in integrated, place-based, and regionally relevant learning focused on the theme of local watersheds. We explore how PD that embeds epistemological pluralism…
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Poster | Supporting the Implementation of Scientific Modeling Instruction in High School Chemistry and Biology in Rural Schools
SIMIRS is a Level 2 Early Stage Design and Development project led by an interdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners at NC State University, in partnership with 26 rural school systems across North Carolina. The project has two primary aims: (1) to support rural high school biology and chemistry teachers in implementing an innovative reform-oriented, model-based science teaching…
SIMIRS is a Level 2 Early Stage Design and Development project led by an interdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners at NC State University, in partnership with 26 rural school systems across North Carolina. The project has two primary aims: (1) to support rural high school biology and chemistry teachers in implementing an innovative reform-oriented, model-based science teaching…
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Poster | Supporting Teachers Appropriation of Ambitious Teaching Practice Within the Context of Implementing Complex Multidimensional Science Assessments
Expectations and opportunities for student learning in science are expanding to involve students in making sense of and addressing real questions and problems in the world around them. At the same time, school districts are seeking innovative ways to support teachers in providing instruction that takes into account students’ perspectives and uses those perspectives to teach science. This project…
Expectations and opportunities for student learning in science are expanding to involve students in making sense of and addressing real questions and problems in the world around them. At the same time, school districts are seeking innovative ways to support teachers in providing instruction that takes into account students’ perspectives and uses those perspectives to teach science. This project…
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Poster | Supporting Rural STEM Middle School Teachers and Career Counselors in the Development of Effective STEM Content and Career Development Experiences
This project provides rural middle school teachers and career counselors professional development, and the support needed to collaborate with each other and local community assets in designing, integrating, and implementing effective STEM content and career development activities. School teams co-develop project-based learning units that incorporate a place-based education perspective involving…
This project provides rural middle school teachers and career counselors professional development, and the support needed to collaborate with each other and local community assets in designing, integrating, and implementing effective STEM content and career development activities. School teams co-develop project-based learning units that incorporate a place-based education perspective involving…
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Poster | Supporting Instructional Decision Making: The Potential of an Automatically Scored Three-Dimensional Assessment System (Collaborative Research)
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
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Poster | Supporting Instructional Decision Making: The Potential of an Automatically Scored Three-Dimensional Assessment System (Collaborative Research)
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
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Poster | Supporting Instructional Decision Making: The Potential of an Automatically Scored Three-Dimensional Assessment System (Collaborative Research)
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
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Poster | Supporting Instructional Decision Making: The Potential of an Automatically Scored Three-Dimensional Assessment System (Collaborative Research)
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
This collaborative early-stage design and development project has three goals: (a) develop automatically generated student reports (AutoRs) for three-dimensional (3D) science assessments to assist middle-school teachers to notice, attend to, and interpret information in ongoing classroom teaching, and (b) develop effective instructional supports to improve teachers’ use of AutoRs to make…
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Poster | Supporting Elementary Teacher Learning for Effective School-based Citizen Science (TL4CS)
The goal of TL4CS is to generate knowledge about teacher learning that enables elementary school-based citizen science (SBCs) to support students’ engagement with authentic science content and practices. The study addresses three research questions: (1) What kinds of supports foster teacher learning for enacting SBCS? (2) How do supports for teacher learning shape the way teachers enact SBCS? and…
The goal of TL4CS is to generate knowledge about teacher learning that enables elementary school-based citizen science (SBCs) to support students’ engagement with authentic science content and practices. The study addresses three research questions: (1) What kinds of supports foster teacher learning for enacting SBCS? (2) How do supports for teacher learning shape the way teachers enact SBCS? and…
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Poster | Science Communities of Practice Partnership
The Science Communities of Practice Partnership (SCOPP), a four-year $3.4 million National Science Foundation grant. The project is developing and studying a comprehensive teacher professional development model to transform science teaching and learning in elementary schools serving predominantly minoritized students. The project will provide evidence about specific components of the…
The Science Communities of Practice Partnership (SCOPP), a four-year $3.4 million National Science Foundation grant. The project is developing and studying a comprehensive teacher professional development model to transform science teaching and learning in elementary schools serving predominantly minoritized students. The project will provide evidence about specific components of the…
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Poster | Professional Learning Hub for Early Science (HubES): Leveraging Technology to Develop Supports for Educators to Promote Meaningful Science Learning in Preschool
Although science is increasingly recognized as a key dimension of early learning, findings to date indicate that young children, especially those enrolled in public preschool programs serving historically excluded communities, have limited opportunities to engage in high quality science investigations. This four-year design and development project brings together public preschool teachers,…
Although science is increasingly recognized as a key dimension of early learning, findings to date indicate that young children, especially those enrolled in public preschool programs serving historically excluded communities, have limited opportunities to engage in high quality science investigations. This four-year design and development project brings together public preschool teachers,…
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Poster | Math Partners: Collaborations to Support Early Math Learning
The Math Partners intervention is informed by the concepts of Funds of Knowledge and Community Cultural Wealth that inform our growing understanding of how to help teachers partner with families to support early math learning. Teachers receive Practice-Based Coaching in small groups with other teachers and will form design teams in each Math Partners classroom. The design teams of teachers and…
The Math Partners intervention is informed by the concepts of Funds of Knowledge and Community Cultural Wealth that inform our growing understanding of how to help teachers partner with families to support early math learning. Teachers receive Practice-Based Coaching in small groups with other teachers and will form design teams in each Math Partners classroom. The design teams of teachers and…
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