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Dear Colleagues:
Just a reminder that the 2012 DR K-12 PI Meeting will be held June 13-15th at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, VA. Registration will open in April, and we hope you will be able to participate.…
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Dear Colleagues:
This is our first "formal" opportunity to welcome new DR K-12 PIs, and welcome back those of you who we haven't seen since the June PI Meeting. Thanks to all who participated in making this one of the most…
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Dear Colleagues,
CADRE's work this year is largely focused on dissemination, and we are pleased to send you this quarterly CADRE newsletter that highlights efforts and resources related to that focus. We will disseminate…
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Dear Colleagues,
We are writing to wish you a good summer, inform you of new resources, and let you know what we'll be working on in the coming months. We have updated the Student and Teacher Assessment Compendia, which…
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Dear Colleagues,
While the policy context seems to change almost daily, those of us in the field continue to work on our NSF awards with the same commitment, focus, and enthusiasm.
A new set of DR K-12 proposals has been…
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Dear Colleagues:
I am writing to let you know that we are in discussion with NSF about organizing a 2014 DR K-12 PI meeting, preferably in early August. While there has not been a final sign-off by NSF, we are…
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Dear Colleagues:
At the recent PI meeting, I mentioned that we were hopeful, but had not received official notification of funding. (You know this feeling!) We are pleased to announce that CADRE is alive and well for the…
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Dear Colleagues:
The CADRE team wishes you a productive professional year in 2015!
In the fall, we welcomed the newest cohort of Fellows to the CADRE community. They are an exceptional group of early career researchers and…
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Dear Colleagues:
With spring almost here and preparation for conferences underway, we are all thinking more about dissemination strategies. Let us help you! Send us a quick update on your project with an accompanying link…
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Dear Colleagues:
We've begun summer with a lot of enthusiasm about the coming year. Please save the date of June 1-3, 2016 for the DR K-12 PI Meeting to take place in Washington, D.C. On the basis of your evaluations of…
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Dear Colleagues:
The fall has been busy and productive for CADRE. First, you may notice that this newsletter and our website have a new look and feel! We're currently renovating and making changes to cadrek12.org to…
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Dear Colleagues:
Happy New Year!
We are starting the year with a commitment to disseminating your findings and resources in many different ways.
We have begun soliciting participants for the second annual…
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Dear Colleagues:
If you haven't heard, we lost a very well respected NSF colleague, Dr. Janice Earle, who was program director for many of us over several decades. We and others had wonderful professional relationships…
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Dear Colleagues:
All our appreciation goes to June's DR K-12 PI Meeting participants. In this issue, we highlight some of the information, ideas, and resources that came out of your good work and conversation at the…
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Dear Colleagues:
While it isn't completely clear how the new presidency will impact education policy, schools, and students, those of us in the DR K-12 community will continue to research how to help children learn. And…
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The following publications were submitted by DR K-12 project members. Find publications below by topic: Engineering | Math | Science | Science & Math | Science & Technology | Science, Technology & Engineering…
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Special Issue: Dissemination
Dear Colleagues,
As we each grapple with how to best achieve our desired project outcomes and impacts, CADRE has pulled together some resources to help. In this special…
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Dear Colleagues,
This newsletter highlights the work of DRK-12 projects, particularly those developing products for the practice of scientific modeling and several mathematics projects featured in an AERA…
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Dear Colleagues,
We hope that you are all having a great summer! We invite you to take a break from your summer reading list to glance at the new CADRE Early Career Guide. For those of us who work to improve…
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Dear Colleagues,
CADRE is happy to welcome a new cohort of DRK-12 awardees. The new projects are already represented on the CADRE website. We invite you to explore!
CADRE is one of the new DRK-12 awards…
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Dear Colleagues,
Please join us in welcoming the 2017-18 CADRE Fellows! Their bios are accessible below. Over the next year, we may invite you to share your experiences with them!
In every…
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Dear Colleagues,
To close out November, we are excited to share a new product, developed in collaboration with DRK-12 awardees, which offers practical design guidelines for online and blended professional…
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Dear Colleagues,
We wish you all happy holidays and a new year! As we close out 2017, we are taking a moment to send you some CADRE and DRK-12 highlights from the last year.
Sincerely,
The CADRE…
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Dear Colleagues,
We are excitedly preparing for the 2018 DRK-12 PI Meeting. The planning committee is working on the agenda, including designing strategies to engage and leverage the expertise of 50 STEM+C…
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Dear Colleagues,
CADRE has opened registration for the 2018 DRK–12 PI Meeting to invited DRK–12 and STEM+C PIs. (Note: a reminder invitation will be sent out later this week to invited PIs who have not…
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Dear Colleagues,
Now that the 2018 US budget has just passed with increased research spending, we can focus on NSF's 2019 Budget Request to Congress. As you look at a breakdown of the EHR funding request, note…
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Dear Colleagues,
It has been a busy spring for CADRE and the DRK-12 community who have been working hard on dissemination and outreach efforts. Representatives from DRK-12 projects have been spreading the word about…
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Dear Colleagues,
The CADRE Team has been busy preparing for the June 6-8 2018 DRK-12 PI Meeting. For those who aren't able to attend, we invite you to view the agenda and stay tuned for meeting resources,…
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This special edition newsletter shares resources from the 2018 DRK-12 Meeting, held June 6-8, 2018.
The Keynotes
NSF Welcome (Robert Ochsendorf, National Science Foundation) and Nexus of Change: Exploring the…
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Dear Colleagues,
News keeps coming in from NSF! They recently announced a number of ways that researchers can positively influence the future of preK-12 STEM education research: a new STEM education advisory panel (…
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Dear Colleagues,
We've heard! CADRE has been awarded a grant to continue serving the DRK-12 program and its awardees for another two years. Here's what we know. We will continue to share news and resources with you…
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Dear Colleagues,
We received many qualified applicants for the 2018-19 CADRE Fellows program and will announce acceptances in our October newsletter. Thank you to applicants and nominating awardees!
For those…
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Dear Colleagues,
Concurrent to our release of two new products focused on broadening participation in STEM education (see below), the National Academies has announced its new report, English Learners in STEM Subjects:…
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Dear Colleagues,
October was National Disabilities Awareness Month, and December 3 is International Day of Disabled Persons. So this month, CADRE is featuring DRK-12 projects studying STEM education for children and…
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Dear Colleagues,
In 2018 ... Approximately 56.6 million students were expected to attend elementary and secondary schools—the majority of whom are nonwhite. Public school systems were expected to employ about 3.2 million…
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Dear Colleagues,
Happy new year. As the government shutdown continues, we want to remind you that NSF announced that it is still accepting project reports. NSF has also recently announced that the next DRK-12 submission…
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Dear Colleagues,
In this newsletter, we feature current DRK-12 projects doing research on assessment and learning technologies, as well as share a framing piece by James Lester on recent advances in…
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Dear Colleagues,
This month, we are celebrating International Women's Day and Women's History Month by highlighting women and girls in STEM (@UN_Women; #WomenInScience)! On PI Day (March 14, 2019), NASA sent …
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Dear Colleagues,
We are saddened to share the news that Julio Lopez-Ferrao passed away on March 25. Julio had been a DRK-12 program officer since the inception of the program, and was CADRE's first program officer. He…
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Dear Colleagues,
Save the date! The 2020 DRK-12 PI Meeting will be held June 3-5, 2020, at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. Invitations will be sent next winter. In the meantime, please send…
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Dear Colleagues,
Many of you may be thinking about your next NSF DRK-12 proposal submission now that the deadline (November 13, 2019) is less than five months away. This newsletter contains several articles that may…
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Dear Colleagues,
This month's Spotlight focuses on improving science and mathematics education in rural America. Though rural areas differ, they often share similar assets (e.g., community orientation) that can…
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Dear Colleagues,
The 2019 DRK-12 grants have been awarded, and new projects are beginning. Welcome to all the new members of the CADRE community! We send a special congratulations to former CADRE Fellows Camillia Matuk and…
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Dear Colleagues,
This month we are featuring DRK-12 projects with a focus on STEM pathways. Though there may not be consensus of what constitutes a STEM job, we might all agree that educational…
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Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce the 2019-20 CADRE Fellows, selected from an outstanding pool of applicants. We look forward to learning more about their work in the year ahead. Thank you to all who…
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Dear Colleagues,
This month, we spotlight research on supporting teachers in choosing, adapting, and/or developing STEM instructional materials. Teachers are increasingly involved in these curriculum activities and…
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Looking Back ...
There were some exciting STEM achievements in 2019, such as the imaging of a black hole and the first all-female spacewalk. NSF managed to make a lot of awards, despite a government shutdown. One of the…
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Dear Colleagues,
We are greatly saddened to share the news that Dr. Karen King passed away in December. Among her many accomplishments, Karen was a key DRK-12 and former CADRE program officer, as well as a generous…
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Dear Colleagues,
DRK-12 projects are out and about sharing their work. In this month's Spotlight, read about projects focused on improving STEM education for students whose first language isn't English. (Use the…
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Dear Colleagues,
Since our lives are saturated with COVID-19 concerns, we're starting this newsletter with good news. CADRE is happy to announce the early career researchers who have been selected to participate in the…