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preK-12 STEM education.

Meet the 2024 CADRE Fellows!

Congratulations to our newest cohort of CADRE Fellows.

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Spotlight on Learning Progressions and Trajectories

Read how DRK-12 projects are addressing issues of equity and supporting teachers in understanding and using learning progressions and trajectories.

Spotlight on Research-Practice Partnerships

Read about partnerships between researchers and practitioners to innovate and improve STEM teaching and learning.

Classroom-Based STEM Assessment: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives

CADRE is pleased to announce the release of a new report, which highlights the latest insights from DRK-12 program-funded research.

NSF Proposal Toolkit

2023 DRK-12 solicitation is out! Check out these helpful resources for developing proposals, including slides & recordings of solicitation webinars.

Research Toolkit

Tips, resources, & tools on education research design, theory & frameworks, methodologies, instrumentation, human subjects, & data management.

The EQR Hub

Offering services and resources in research methods, knowledge translation, and DEI to current and aspiring DRK-12 grantees.

Curricula & Resources for Educators

Explore 75+ NSF-funded curricula, apps, modules, and/or simulations in our searchable library.

News & Announcements

Announcing the 2024 CADRE Fellows!
Please join us in welcoming the 2024 CADRE Fellows: Miranda M. Allen, Texas Tech University Jerome Amedu, University of New Hampshire Fangxing Bai, University of Cincinnati Tajma A. Cameron, Drexel…
NSF Seeks DRK-12 Reviewers
The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks reviewers for its Discovery Research in PreK-12 (DRK-12) program. If you or your research partners are interested in serving, please fill out or forward…
CADRE Learning Series on Instructional Observation
Image Many DRK-12 projects seek to document changes in classroom instruction. To that end, researchers often seek to use or create reliable instructional…

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Events

Association for Science Teacher Education 2024 ASTE Far West Meeting; Waikoloa, HI

01/03/2024 - 12:00am to 01/06/2024 - 12:00am

American Association of Physics Teachers 2024 AAPT Winter Meeting; New Orleans, LA

01/06/2024 - 12:00am to 01/09/2024 - 12:00am

Resources

Intersections of Teacher Noticing and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: A Conceptual Framework to Inform the Design of Teacher Learning

Teacher noticing scholars are just beginning to explore how to support noticing that is responsive to students'…

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Policy Translation in Assemblage: Networked Actors Mediating Science Teachers’ Policy Play

Educational policies exist as part of complex systems of many policies, all of which science teachers must make sense…

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