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Early Career News | Identifying the Roles of Science Teacher Leaders in Practice
Sara C. Heredia, Michelle Phillips, Sarah Stallings, Ti’Era Worsley (2019-20 CADRE Fellow), Julie H. Yu, and Carrie D. Allen (2014-15 CADRE Fellow) published this article in the Journal of Science Teacher Education.
Posted: Monday, April 17
Early Career News | Understanding Student Use of Epistemic Criteria in Engineering Design Contexts
Christina Baze, María González-Howard (CAREER Awardee; 2015-16 CADRE Fellow), Vic Sampson, Mic Fenech, Rich Crawford, Todd Hutner, Lawrence Chu, and Xiaofen Hamilton co-authored this Science Education article.
Posted: Monday, April 17
Early Career News | State-Level Efforts to Reform Elementary Science Education
Angela M. Lyle, James P. Spillane, and Christa Haverly (2018-19 CADRE Fellow) published this Educational Policy article.
Posted: Monday, April 17
Event | Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program) Full Proposal Deadline
Learn more at https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/improving-undergraduate-stem….
Posted: Friday, April 14
Event | Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU) Full Proposal Deadline
Learn more at https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/improving-undergraduate-stem….
Posted: Friday, April 14
Event | LSAMP National Coordination Hub and Louis Stokes Community Resource Centers (LSAMP Hub & LSCRCs) Full Proposal Deadline
Learn more at https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/lsamp-national-coordination-….
Posted: Friday, April 14
Event | Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) Full Proposal Deadline
Learn more at https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/tribal-colleges-universities…
Posted: Friday, April 14
Newsletter | April 2023 Newsletter
Dear Colleagues, The DRK-12 program has funded projects that research innovative approaches to providing equitable and high-quality STEM education opportunities to rural students, such as place-based learning, online professional development, lesson study models, and interactive digital tools. Read about the projects featured in our Spotlight on Rural STEM Education to see how they are helping…
Posted: Friday, April 14
Announcement | FAQs On Proposal Preparation and Award Administration Related to NSF PAPPG (NSF 23-1)
NSF has posted Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) On Proposal Preparation and Award Administration Related to NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 23-1). View this and other proposal related documents in CADRE's NSF Proposal Toolkit. 
Posted: Tuesday, April 04
Announcement | New DCL! Supporting Knowledge Mobilization for PreK-12 and Informal STEM Learning and Teaching
NSF has posted a new Dear Colleague Letter (DCL): Supporting Knowledge Mobilization for PreK-12 and Informal STEM Learning and Teaching. The DCL "encourages submissions to programs within the Directorate for STEM Education’s (EDU) Division of Research on Learning in Informal and Formal Settings (DRL) for new proposals (research and other proposal types described in Chapter II.F of the NSF…
Posted: Friday, March 31
Early Career News | Exploring STEM Teacher Learning in Out-of-School Settings: Sites for Learning about Relevance
Ti’Era Worsley (2019-20 CADRE Fellow) published this Education Sciences article with co-author Sara Heredia.
Posted: Tuesday, March 28
Early Career News | Toward Equity for Multilingual Learners
Emily Reigh (2019-20 CADRE Fellow), Emily Adah Miller, Maria Chiara Simani, and Alice Severson published this Science & Children article.
Posted: Tuesday, March 28
Early Career News | Unpacking Readiness for Elementary Science Teaching: What Preservice Teachers Bring and How That Can be Shaped Through Teacher Education
Christa Haverly (2018-19 CADRE Fellow) and Elizabeth A. Davis published this article in Studies in Science Education.
Posted: Tuesday, March 28
Early Career News | Science Education with Multilingual Learners: Equity as Access and Equity as Transformation
Scott E. Grapin, Ashlyn Pierson, María González-Howard (2015-16 CADRE Fellow), Minjung Ryu, Caitlin Fine, and Sara Vogel co-authored this article for Science Education.
Posted: Tuesday, March 28
Early Career News | Perceived Network Bridging Influences the Career Commitment Decisions of Early Career Teachers
Joshua W. Reid, Samuel J. Polizzi, Yicong Zhu, Siying Jiang, Brandon Ofem, Sara Salisbury (2022 CADRE Fellow), Michael Beeth, Margaret Mohr-Schroeder, Keith Sheppard, Gillian Roehrig, and Gregory T. Rushton published this article in the International Journal of STEM Education.
Posted: Tuesday, March 28
Early Career News | Investigating the Mangle of Teaching Oxidation–Reduction with the VisChem Approach: Problematising Symbolic Traditions that Undermine Chemistry Concept Development
Meng-Yang M. Wu (2022 CADRE Fellow) and Ellen J. Yezierski published this article in Chemistry Education Research and Practice.
Posted: Tuesday, March 28
Project Spotlight | Argumentation in STEM
The ability to support an argument from evidence crosses STEM disciplines. This Spotlight highlights DRK-12 research and products that support the STEM practice of argumentation in math and science classrooms. In his blog post, Jonathan Osborne makes the case why argumentation is a powerful tool for student learning in science classrooms.     In this Spotlight: Argument in Science Education |…
Posted: Friday, March 24
Event | NSF Workshop for NSF Directorate for STEM Education CAREER Applicants
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build…
Posted: Friday, March 24
Announcement | NSF Workshop for NSF Directorate for STEM Education CAREER Applicants
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build…
Posted: Thursday, March 23
Newsletter | March 2023 Newsletter
Dear Colleagues, Thank you to those who have completed the survey we recently sent to gather information about DRK-12 projects. The majority of results are aggregated, but we have also collected information about DRK-12 awardee presentations at upcoming conferences and hope that you will consider attending them, including CADRE’s session on classroom-based assessment at the AERA Annual Meeting.…
Posted: Wednesday, March 22
Blog | Argument in Science Education
Argument is central to all reasoning. Life is a constant attempt to make sense of one event after another – whether it is why your football team lost, why Walt Whitman is considered a great poet, or whether you should buy an electric car. In all cases, arguments will be made for disparate views which will be supported by reasoning or evidence. In the case of science, argument is central because…
Posted: Tuesday, March 21
Announcement | NSF Rotator Program Director Positions
NSF seeks to hire temporary program directors with education research or development expertise in one or more of the following areas: 1) Equity in STEM: diversity, equity, inclusion and access in preK-12 and informal settings; 2) Advanced and emerging technologies in education such as AI, quantum, data science, and semiconductors; 3) Science education research or development in pre-K-12 formal or…
Posted: Thursday, March 16
Survey | 2023 DRK-12 PI Meeting: Guest Registration
REGISTRATION  2023 DRK-12 PI Meeting June 28-30, 2023 | Hyatt Regency Crystal City | Arlington, VA
Posted: Tuesday, March 07
Early Career News | Toward a Discourse on the Threat of Performative Wokeness to Justice Agendas in Education
Patricia L. Marshall and Jonee Wilson (2013-14 CADRE Fellow) published this article in Urban Education.
Posted: Tuesday, February 28
Early Career News | Using Multiple Models to Learn About COVID-19
Jamie Elsner, Troy Sadler, Eric Kirk (2023 CADRE Fellow), Rebecca Rawson, Patricia Friedrichsen, and Li Ke co-authored this article for The Science Teacher.
Posted: Tuesday, February 28
Early Career News | Exploring Computer Science Understanding and Rationales in Preservice Teacher Pathways Through Faculty Professional Development
Michael Karlin, Yin-Chan (Janet) Liao, and Swati Mehta (2023 CADRE Fellow) co-authored this article for the Journal of Research on Technology in Education.
Posted: Tuesday, February 28
Early Career News | Deeper Learning Opportunities and STEM Career Orientation in Out-of-School Time (OST) STEM Enrichment Programs
Ryan Culbertson, Guan K. Saw, Kahli Hedrick-Roman, Chi-Ning Chang, and Guillermo Lopez (2022 CADRE Fellow) published this article in the Journal of STEM Education: Innovation and Research.
Posted: Tuesday, February 28
Early Career News | Teaching Assistant Responses to COVID-19
Cody Smith, Deepika Menon, Annette Wierzbicki, and Jenny Dauer (2012-13 CADRE Fellow) published this article in the Journal of College Science Teaching.
Posted: Tuesday, February 28
Early Career News | Noticing Elementary Students’ Mathematical Reasoning and Diverse Needs: Investigating the Impact of Different Noticing Tasks
Vecihi Serbay Zambak (2018 CADRE Postdoc) published this article in the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology with co-authors Ai Kamei and Kaitlyn Sorochka.
Posted: Tuesday, February 28
Early Career News | Exploring Energy Through the Lens of Equity: Funds of Knowledge Conveyed Through Video-based Discussion
Eileen G. Merritt, Andrea E. Weinberg (2011-12 CADRE Fellow), and Leanna Archambault published this International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education article.
Posted: Tuesday, February 28